The Life and Times of Sir Walter Raleigh With Copious Extracts from His History of the World
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing
Published: March 30, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 336
ISBN-13: 9781417967803
Subjects: Biography: general; Biography & Autobiography; Biography / Autobiography; Biography/Autobiography; Literary
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.