The Life and Letters of Sir Henry Wotton, Volume 2Clarendon Press, 1907 - Great Britain |
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Page 32 - True, representing some principal pieces of the reign of Henry the Eighth, which was set forth with many extraordinary circumstances of pomp and majesty, even to the matting of the stage; the knights of the order with their Georges and Garter, the guards with their embroidered coats and the like; sufficient, in truth, within a while to make greatness very familiar, if not ridiculous.
Page 33 - King Henry making a masque at the Cardinal Wolsey's house and certain chambers being shot off at his entry, some of the paper or other stuff wherewith one of them was stopped did light on the thatch where, being thought at first but an idle smoke and their eyes more attentive to the show, it kindled inwardly and ran round like a train, consuming within less than an hour the whole house to the very grounds. This was the fatal period of that virtuous fabric wherein yet nothing did perish but wood and...
Page 381 - Wherein I should much commend the tragical part, if the lyrical did not ravish me with a certain Doric delicacy in your songs and odes, whereunto I must plainly confess to have seen yet nothing parallel in our language : Ipsa mollifies.
Page 14 - Masters, who were all to enter per buletini for a note of distinction from ordinary Comedians. Towards the end of the Play, the sheriffs (who by chance had heard of it) came in (as they say) and carried some six or seven of them to perform the last Act at Bridewell; 8 the rest are fled.
Page 302 - For it may please your Majesty to know, that this is the man whom Padre Paulo took, I may say, into his very soul, with whom he did communicate the inwardest thoughts of his heart ; from whom he professed to have received more knowledge in all Divinity, both scholastical and positive, than from any that he had ever practised in his days ; of which all the passages were well known to the King your Father, of most blessed memory.
Page 33 - Now, King Henry making a mask at the Cardinal Wolsey's house, and certain cannons being shot off at his entry, some of the paper, or other stuff wherewith one of them was stopped, did light on the thatch...
Page 376 - Oh thou great Power! in whom I move, For whom I live, to whom I die, Behold me through Thy beams of love. Whilst on this couch of tears I lie ; And cleanse my sordid soul within By Thy Christ's blood, the bath of sin. No hallowed oils, no grains I need, No rags of saints, no purging fire. One rosy drop from David's seed Was worlds of seas to quench Thine ire.
Page 206 - This set me on fire : at last, he told me how. He hath a little black tent (of what stuff, is not much importing) which he can suddenly set up where he will in a field, and it is convertible...
Page 32 - The king's players had a new play, called All is True, representing some principal pieces of the reign of Henry the Eighth, which was set forth with many extraordinary circumstances of pomp and majesty, even to the matting of the stage ; the knights of the order, with their Georges and Garter, the guards with their embroidered coats and the like ; sufficient, in truth, within a...
Page 205 - In this man's study I was much taken with the draught ' of a landscape on a piece of paper, methought masterly done: whereof inquiring the author, he bewrayed with a smile it was himself; adding, ' he had done it, non tanquam Pictor, sed tanf/nam Mathematicus.' This set me on fire : at last, he told me how.