. Imperial courts of France, England, Russia, Prussia, Sardinia, and Austria. Richly illustrated with portraits of imperial sovereigns and their cabinet ministers' with biographical sketches . hed and made great adviinces, and wealth was muchmore extensively and rapidly diflused among the body ofthe people than at any former period. It is the feeling ofprogress, rather than any degree of actual attainment, that QUEEN ELIZABETH. 207 keeps a nation in spirits; and this feeling everything con-spired to keep alive in the hearts of the English in theage of Elizabeth; even the remembrance of the sto
. Imperial courts of France, England, Russia, Prussia, Sardinia, and Austria. Richly illustrated with portraits of imperial sovereigns and their cabinet ministers' with biographical sketches . hed and made great adviinces, and wealth was muchmore extensively and rapidly diflused among the body ofthe people than at any former period. It is the feeling ofprogress, rather than any degree of actual attainment, that QUEEN ELIZABETH. 207 keeps a nation in spirits; and this feeling everything con-spired to keep alive in the hearts of the English in theage of Elizabeth; even the remembrance of the stormytimes of their fathers, from which they had escaped, lend-ing its aid to heighten the charm of the present calm. Tothese happy ciicnmstances of the national condition wasowing, above all, and destined to sur\ave all their otherproducts, the rich native hterature, more especially inpoetry and the drama, which now rushed up, as if jfromthe tillage of a \irgin soil, covering the land with its per-ennial fruit and flowers. Spenser and Shakspeare, Beau-mont and Fletcher, Ealeigh and Bacon, and many othereminently distinguished names, gained then* earUest celeb-rity in the EUzabethan lAMY iOEEN or S C (D) T il,.ON iw,F\imifrrjMGf:jim;j{niKm:urmN. MARY, QUEEN OF SCOTS. HER PORTRAIT. This is a beautiful portrait-print of this world-renownedlady. Her name, her character, her misfortunes, her beauty,and accomplishments, her sad and terrible destiny, the tearson her cheek, and on her hand, seemingly almost as freshas if they had just fallen from her weeping eyes, the nearaj^proach of the final hour, the night before her execution,will awaken emotions of sympathy in the heart of thereader, and perhaps cause the crystal fountauis to springaleak at the contemplation of that face and form whichwas once called to sviffer such fearful agonies of mindand body. Mary Stuart, Queen of Scotland, was born on the sev-enth of December, 1542. She was the third child of KingJames V. of Scotland,
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