| James Phinney Baxter - America - 1890 - 304 pages
...his crime. The following epitaph may ftill be read on Greville's tomb in the old church at Warwick : FULKE GREVILLE, SERVANT TO QUEEN ELIZABETH, COUNSELLOR TO KING JAMES, AND FRIEND TO SlR PHILIP SYDNEY. TROPH.*UM PECCATI. 821 Edward Somerfet, Earl of Worcefter, was one of the moft accomplifhed... | |
| 1891 - 780 pages
...Everybody knows the inscription on the gravestone of the accomplished Elizabethan, "Here lies Koike Greville, servant to Queen Elizabeth, counsellor to King James, and 'friend to Sir Philip Sidney ' ; but everybody does not know that a similar memorial of an honourable friendship may be read on... | |
| Henry Benjamin Wheatley - London (England) - 1891 - 640 pages
...Greville Street, HATTON GARDEN and BROOKE STREET, was so called after Fulke Greville, Lord Brooke, " servant to Queen Elizabeth, counsellor to King James, and friend to Sir Philip Sydney." Brooke House stood where Greville Street now stands. Thomas Manningham, Dean of Windsor and... | |
| William Ralph Hall Caine - English poetry - 1892 - 320 pages
...perceive you. ' — O ! unjust is Fortune's sway, Which can make me thus to leave you, jfulfee (Brevtlle ' servant to Queen Elizabeth, counsellor to King James, and friend to Sir Philip Sydney,' was the inscription he desired should be placed on his tomb. Queen Elizabeth held him in great... | |
| William Black - English fiction - 1893 - 460 pages
...and at Cressy and Poictiers. It was she who discovered for us the sarcophagus bearing the words — " Fulke Greville, Servant to Queen Elizabeth, Counsellor to King James, and Friend to Sir Philip Sidney ". And when we came to the two marble figures of the Earl and Countess of Leicester, she knew that... | |
| Henry Snowden Ward, Catharine Weed Barnes Ward - Stratford-upon-Avon (England) - 1897 - 154 pages
...80 Church, the finest being that of Lord Brooke, in what was once the chapter-house, and bearing the inscription, " Fulke Greville, servant to Queen Elizabeth,...Counsellor to King James, and Friend to Sir Philip Sidney." Under the Choir is the Crypt, used as the burial-place of the Earls of Warwick. The finest part of... | |
| Charles Lamb - 1897 - 228 pages
...intimate friend and biographer of his kinsman Sir Philip Sidney. His epitaph, composed by himself, was: " Fulke Greville, servant to Queen Elizabeth, counsellor to King James, and friend to Sir Philip Sidney. P. 32, 1. 20. Zimmerman. Johann Georg von Zimmerman, an eminent Swiss philosopher and physician (1725-1795).... | |
| David Masson, George Grove, John Morley, Mowbray Walter Morris - English literature - 1897 - 524 pages
...single line " My mind to me a kingdom is," Fulke Greville, Lord Brook who wrote for his epitaph, " Servant to Queen Elizabeth, Counsellor to King James, and Friend to Sir Philip Sidney." Last, not least, whether as poet or courtier, was the great Earl of Essex. In a later day came Sir... | |
| Alfred Henry Malan - Country homes - 1899 - 432 pages
...himself composed, was engraved upon the monument he had erected during his lifetime. It runs thus : " FULKE GREVILLE SERVANT TO QUEEN ELIZABETH COUNSELLOR TO KING JAMES AND FRIEND TO SIR PHILIP SIDNEY." Warwick Castle and its owner, Robert, second Lord Brooke, were destined to play a prominent part in... | |
| Walter Jerrold - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1902 - 218 pages
...Queene." Then come the poems of Fulke Greville, Lord Brooke, one who was, in the words of his epitaph, " servant to Queen Elizabeth, counsellor to King James, and friend to Sir Philip Sidney," and who — says Southey, writing a decade before the date of " Sordello" — "is certainly the most... | |
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