 | 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 - Great Britain - 1838 - 610 pages
...thcrforc eftsoones required to abstaine from the medling therwith, untill the lawe shall have determyncd the right herin, 152 THE PLAGUE IN LONDON. [NOV. We...from you, when you are instated in your principality. 1 will write unto you, (quoth Stukeley.) In what language ? (saith the Queen.) He returned : In the... | |
 | Thomas Wright - Great Britain - 1838 - 578 pages
...patrimony, he entered on several projects, (the issue general of all decaied estates,) and first pitched on the peopling of Florida, then newly found out in...from you, when you are instated in your principality. 1 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... | |
 | 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...your principality." " I will write unto you " (quoth Stukely). "In what language" (saith the queen). He returned, " in the style of princes : ' To our dearest... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
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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 ; " adding,... 
