 | Sir Egerton Brydges - Biography - 1834 - 582 pages
...buried at Warwick, under a monument, which he had erected himself, with this remarkable inscription : Servant to Queen Elizabeth, Counsellor to King James, And friend to Sir Philip Sydney. Tropheam Peccati." Horace Walpole, whose delight was singularity of opinion, describes him... | |
 | Edmund Lodge - Great Britain - 1835 - 286 pages
...commemorates on his own tomb, in the collegiate church of Warwick, by this inscription — " Fulke Greville, servant to Queen Elizabeth, counsellor to King James, and friend to Sir Philip Sidney." He concluded his academical studies at seventeen years of age, and on the twenty-sixth of May, 1572, departed... | |
 | John Howe - Puritans - 1835 - 662 pages
...inscription put upon his tomb, without any further enlargement, to this effect, That he had been a servant to Queen Elizabeth, counsellor to King James, and friend to Sir Philip Sidney. By this it appears that he would have all ages know whose servant, counsellor, and friend he had been.... | |
 | Edmund Lodge - Celebrities - 1835 - 300 pages
...monument, which he had some years before erected, with the well known inscription, " Fulke Greville, Servant to Queen Elizabeth; Counsellor to King James; and Friend to Sir Philip Sidney. Trophseum Peccati." Lord Brooke was never married. He wrote in prose, " The Life of the renowned Sir... | |
 | Gift books - 1836 - 456 pages
...Philip Sidney." Lord Brooke also had the following inscription placed on his grave. " Fulke Greville, servant to Queen Elizabeth, counsellor to King James, and friend to Sir Philip Sidney." Robert, the following passage is to be found; a passage which may with greater authority be quoted,... | |
 | Samuel Carter Hall - English poetry - 1836 - 336 pages
...beauties find, Say whither thou wilt crowne With limitlesse renowne. 1 ii K i. GRKVILE, Lord Brooke, " servant to Queen Elizabeth, counsellor to King James, and friend to Sir Philip Sidney," was born at Aleaster. Warwickshire, in I554. He was educated both at Oxford and at Cambridge, and obtained... | |
 | Englishmen - 1836 - 276 pages
...literature, and fondness for the fine arts ; and of whom it was recorded on his tomb that he had been servant to Queen Elizabeth, counsellor to King James, and friend to Sir Philip Sydney. Sir Fulke held the talents of our poet in the highest estimation ; and he enjoyed while under... | |
 | Augustus Charles Pugin - 1836 - 248 pages
...are now esteemed amongst the finest pieces of ancient castellated architecture. Sir Fulke Greville, " Servant to Queen Elizabeth, counsellor to King James, and friend to Sir Philip Sydney," received a grant of Warwick Castle from the crown in 1604, at which time it was in a neglected... | |
 | Horace Walpole - 1837 - 462 pages
...much cleverer, if he has taken three lieutenant-generals and an hundred pieces of cannon ? Greville, servant to queen Elizabeth, counsellor to king James, and friend to sir Philip Sidney," was the son of sir Foulke Greville, who acquired the manor of Aleester, and other very large estates,... | |
 | Horace Walpole (4th earl of Orford.) - 1837 - 462 pages
...much cleverer, if he has taken three lieutenant-generals and an hundred pieces of cannon ? Greville, servant to queen Elizabeth, counsellor to king James, and friend to sir Philip Sidney," was the son of sir Foulke Greville, who acquired the manor ofAIcester, and other very large estates,... | |
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Fulke Greville, servant to Queen Elizabeth, counsellor to King James, and friend to Sir Philip Sidney. 
