 | Leigh Hunt - Authors, English - 1828 - 464 pages
...biographer, " that he blushed not to tell Queen Elizabeth, that he preferred rather to be sovereign of a mole-hill, than the highest subject to the greatest...should be a prince before his death. ' I hope,' said Queen Elizabeth, ' that I shall hear from you when you are stated in your principality.' — 'I will... | |
 | George Peele - 1829 - 320 pages
...rather to be Soveraign of a Mole-hill, than the highest Subject to the greatest King in Christendome ; adding moreover, that, he was assured he should be a Prince before his death : I hope (said Queen Elizabeth) I shall hear from you, when you are stated in your Principality : I will write unto... | |
 | George Peele - 1829 - 326 pages
...Mole-hill, than the highest Subject to the greatest King in Christendome ; adding moreover, that, he teas assured he should be a Prince before his death : I hope (said Queen Elizabeth) I shall hear from you, when you are stated in your Principality : I will write unto... | |
 | John Genest - Theater - 1832 - 576 pages
...several projects * * " so confident was his ambition, that he blushed not " to tell Queen Elizabeth that he was assured he " should be a prince before his death * * He " won the favour of Pope Pius the 5th, and even " persuaded him that with 3000 men he could... | |
 | Thomas Wright - 1838 - 576 pages
...therfore eftsoones required to abstaine from the medling therwith, untill the lawe shall have determyned the right herin, 152 THE PLAGUE IN LONDON. [NOV. We...from you, when you are instated in your principality. I will write unto you, (quoth Stukeley.) In what language ? (saith the Queen.) He returned : In the... | |
 | Thomas Fuller - England - 1840 - 626 pages
...rather to be sovereign of a mole-hill, than the highest subject to the greatest king'.in Chistendom ;" adding, moreover, " that he was assured he should be a prince before his death." " I hope," said queen Elizabeth, " I shall hear from you, when you are stated in your principality." " I will write... | |
 | Francis James Child - Ballads, English - 1859 - 344 pages
...his ambition, that he blushed not to tell Queen Elizabeth, 'that he preferred rather to be sovereign of a mole-hill, than the highest subject to the greatest...should be a prince before his death.' ' I hope,' said Queen Elizabeth, ' I shall hear from you, when you are stated in your principality.' ' I will write... | |
 | John Hooker - Great Britain - 1857 - 474 pages
...the sovereign of a mole-hill than the highest subject of the greatest king in Christendom ; adding that he was assured he should be a prince before his...from you when you are instated in your principality." " I will write unto you " (quoth Stukely). "In what language" (saith the queen). He returned, " in... | |
 | Francis James Child - 1858 - 348 pages
...his ambition, that he blushed not to tell Queen Elizabeth, 'that he preferred rather to be sovereign of a mole-hill, than the highest subject to the greatest...should be a prince before his death.' ' I hope,' said Queen Elizabeth, ' I shall hear from you, when you are stated in your principality.' ' I will write... | |
 | Robert Richard Tighe - 1858 - 752 pages
...his ambition, that he blushed not to tell Queen Elizabeth, that he preferred rather to be a sovereign of a mole-hill, than the highest subject to the greatest king in Christendom ; adding1, over, that he was assured he should be a prince before his death: — I hope (said Elizabw)... | |
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... peopling of Florida, then newly found out in the West Indies. So confident his ambition, that he blushed not to tell Queen Elizabeth " that he preferred rather to be sovereign of a molehill, than the highest subject to the greatest king in Christendom... 
