. Old England : a pictorial museum of regal, ecclesiastical, baronial, municipal, and popular antiquities . here lies before him. (Figs. 430, 818, 822,823.) Let us, without inquiring too curiously into his motives, endour notices of Leicester with the pleasantest of the associationsconnected with his name—the Hospital for infirm men founded byhim at Warwick, and which now affords a very handsome provisionfor a master and twenty brethren. The picturesque character ofthe buildings is shown in Mr. Harveys drawing (Fig. 1546). A more striking proof of appreciation of the merits of a subject,by a s
. Old England : a pictorial museum of regal, ecclesiastical, baronial, municipal, and popular antiquities . here lies before him. (Figs. 430, 818, 822,823.) Let us, without inquiring too curiously into his motives, endour notices of Leicester with the pleasantest of the associationsconnected with his name—the Hospital for infirm men founded byhim at Warwick, and which now affords a very handsome provisionfor a master and twenty brethren. The picturesque character ofthe buildings is shown in Mr. Harveys drawing (Fig. 1546). A more striking proof of appreciation of the merits of a subject,by a sovereign whose judgment was of any value, was never probablyvouchsafed, than the peremptory command of Queen Elizabeth thatSir Philip Sidney (Figs. 1547, 1548) should not embark with SirFrancis Drake in his second expedition against the Spaniards inthe West Indies, lest she should lose the jewel of her man thus singled out by the discerning Elizabeth as one whomin an especial manner, she delighted to honour, received about thesame time a token no less remarkable of the admiration he had.
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