 | Richard Garnett, Léon Vallée, Alois Brandl - Anthologies - 1899 - 446 pages
...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...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... | |
 | Richard Garnett - 1899 - 432 pages
...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...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... | |
 | Charles George Harper - Devon (England) - 1908 - 300 pages
...He blushed not," we read, " to tell Elizabeth to her face that he preferred rather to be sovereign of a molehill than the highest subject to the greatest king in Christendom, and that he was assured he should be a prince before his death." Humouring jthis extravagant language,... | |
 | Edgar Mertner, Leigh Hunt, Leigh Hunt - 968 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...Christendom ; adding, moreover, that he was assured be should lie a prince before his death. ' I hope,' said Queen Elizabeth, ' that I shall hear from... | |
 | Juan E. Tazón - History - 2003 - 308 pages
...he preferred rather to be soveraign of a mole-hill, than the highest subject to the greatest king of Christendom; adding, moreover, that he was assured...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 stile... | |
 | Emily Carroll Bartels - Literary Criticism - 2008 - 272 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 king in Chistendom [«'c];" adding moreover, "that he was assured he should be a prince before his death."... | |
 | Sabine Baring-Gould - Biography - 1926 - 498 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 seated in your Principality.' 'I will write to... | |
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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... 
