| Prickett - 1815 - 318 pages
...sides of the tomb is also inscribed the style of the noble founder, as thus — • " Fulke Greville, servant to Queen Elizabeth, Counsellor to King James, and friend to Sir Philip Sidney." This nobleman, who was an ingenious writer, and a munificent patron of learning, was the son of Sir... | |
| William Field - 1816 - 208 pages
...following inscription, remarkable at once, for simplicity, conciseness, and dignity. " Fulke Grevil, servant to Queen Elizabeth, counsellor to King James, and friend to Sir Philip Sidney." f^eslry Room. — This is supposed to have been the library belonging to the monasteiy, in which a... | |
| Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1819 - 616 pages
...church, which hath escaped the late desolation, with this well-known inscription, " Fulke Greville, servant to queen Elizabeth, counsellor to king " James, and friend to Sir Philip Sidney." Nor is he less remembered by the monument he has left in his writings and poems, chiefly composed in... | |
| Francis Bacon - Philosophy - 1819 - 616 pages
...church, which hath escaped the late desolation, with this well-known inscription, " Fulke Greville, servant to queen Elizabeth, counsellor to king " James, and friend to Sir Philip Sidney." Nor is he less remembered by the monument he has left in his writings and poems, chiefly composed in... | |
| Thomas Campbell - Authors, English - 1819 - 420 pages
...former state. * * * * * * * * SIR FULK GREV1LLE, WHO ordered this inscription for his own grave : " Servant to Queen Elizabeth, counsellor to King James, and friend to Sir Philip Sydney ;" was created knight of the bath at James's coronation, afterwards appointed sub-treasurer,... | |
| James Norris Brewer - 1820 - 396 pages
...of a heavy character. On the ledge of the table part is the following inscription; " Fulke Grevil, servant to queen Elizabeth, counsellor to King James, and friend to Sir Philip Sydney." The remains of his lordship lie in a vault beneath, embalmed and enclosed in a coffin of lead.... | |
| Thomas Moule - Great Britain - 1822 - 718 pages
...a plate of the tomb, in the north aisle of the church of St. Mary, at Warwick, of " Fulke Greville, Servant to Queen Elizabeth, Counsellor to King James, and Friend to Sir Philip Sidney," ob. 30th Sept. 1628 ; on p. 98 the Crest of the Bear and Ragged Staff; granted to the Earl of Warwick... | |
| Lady Morgan (Sydney) - Irish fiction - 1823 - 380 pages
...This accomplished nobleman and charming poet ordered this simple epitaph to be fixed on his grave: " Servant to queen Elizabeth, counsellor to king " James, and friend to Sir Philip Sidney." world, the duke continued to converse until he arose to take his leave, which he performed with tho... | |
| Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1823 - 872 pages
...marble, ordering at his death the following inscription to be epgraved upon the tomb : " Fulke Greville, servant to Queen Elizabeth, counsellor to King James, and friend to Sir Philip Sidney. Trophamm Pcccati." He wrote several works both ¡n verse and prose j among which are, I. Two tragedies,... | |
| 1844 - 454 pages
...Sydney. The following lines were placed over his remains: "Here lies Sir Fulk Greville, Lord Brooke, servant to Queen Elizabeth, counsellor to King James, and friend to Sir Philip Sydney." Chinese Batteries. — The engagement at Amoy was a fine spectacle, and it furnished strong... | |
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