The Life And Times Of Sir Walter Raleigh With Copious Extracts From His History Of The World
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing, LLC
Published: July 25, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 336
ISBN-13: 9780548048405
Subjects: Literary; Biography & Autobiography / Literary; Biography / Autobiography
First sentence: WE are told by Lord Bacon in his book of Apophthegms, that when Queen Elizabeth had advanced Ralegh, she was one day playing on the virginals, and my Lord of Oxford and another nobleman stood by, when it happened that the ledge before the jacks was taken away, so that they were seen; whereupon that lord and the other nobleman smiled, and whispered a little.