This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1905 edition. Excerpt: ...round of gaiety and amusement. The young Palsgrave, as he was usually called in England, had learned very little: dreaming of greatness, he had not been preparing himself to achieve it. A young man of restless ambition far beyond his ability, he was certain to prove a failure in the day of trial; and ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1905 edition. Excerpt: ...round of gaiety and amusement. The young Palsgrave, as he was usually called in England, had learned very little: dreaming of greatness, he had not been preparing himself to achieve it. A young man of restless ambition far beyond his ability, he was certain to prove a failure in the day of trial; and that day was very near at hand. During those six years Donne had greatly ' See p. 83. changed and greatly grown; the young princess may have remembered him as a courtier high in favour with the nobility, writing verses to order, graceful and gay, whom her royal father had pressed to enter into the Christian ministry, and had obeyed only when all other avenues to advancement had been barred. She found him now a profoundly serious and earnest divine, who already had come to be regarded as one of the greatest preachers of his time. He had not been many days at Heidelberg before he was invited to preach before the Prince and Princess Palatine. The Princess Elizabeth appears to have been greatly struck by the sermons (for there were two, though only one has been preserved), and from this time conceived a high regard for Donne, and, in a letter which she wrote to him four years later, she says, " The hearing of you deliver, as you call them, the messages of God unto me... truly I never did but with delight, and I hope some measure of edification." The stay at Heidelberg was short. Doncaster soon began to suspect that his mission to Germany was not likely to be successful. Ferdinand was chosen emperor on the 18th of August, and had hardly heard of his election before the amazing intelligence reached him that, two days before, the-Bohemian magnates had solemnly deposed him from being king, and had offered his crown to Frederick, the...
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