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Article A SKETCH FROM COLOGNE, WITH A PEEP INTO HOLLAND. ← Page 12 of 14 →
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A Sketch From Cologne, With A Peep Into Holland.
was banished from court , only to be rendered more famous still by the publication of his " Arcadia / ' the result of his retreat . We know how CoA ** ley and Waller delighted in this ; and more than this , it was the companion of the prison hours of Charles the First .
Is the beauty of the " Arcadia" due to the bitter disappointment its author experienced when he first began to doubt the love of the fair lady Penelope Devereux ? or did he belieA-e her true till her marriage with another shook his faith in Avoman for a time . Ah ! he went back to his first love , Frances , the daughter of his old friend Sir Francis Walsinghamand married
, her ; but his desire for fame led him to offer his services to Drake , when the second expedition was undertaken against the Spaniards . Elizabeth would by no means risk the loss of " the jewel of her dominions , " and Sir Philip stayed to please her majesty . But — to please himself—he refused the croAvn of Poland .
He was doomed to fall a sacrifice to Spain . Appointed governor of Flushing by Elizabeth in 1585 , he fell in accidentally with three thousand Spaniards , marching to relieve Zutphen ; under the very walls he dropped , wounded by a musket-ball . Who does not know the anecdote connected with the dying soldier , Avho , on looking at Sir Philip ' s attendant , as
he presented his master Avith a draught to allay his feverish thirst , expressed his agony of desire for the relief , that none brought him : " Take it , " said Sir Philip , passing the untasted chalice from his lips ; " thy necessity is greater than mine . " From Zutphen they bore him to Arnheim , where his gentle wife , afterwards the bride of Essex , received , with his faithful
secretary Temple , his suffering frame ; and there , in the prime of life , at the age of thirty-three , he died . For him the first general mourning was worn . I was beginning to fall into a dream of Arcady , as I thought upon the dying warrior and his wife—she almost a bride—when the post-horn of the railAvay-guard startled me . The engine
uttered a piercing yell , and away Ave sped to Amsterdam . There was heather on the banks bordering the iron road , and goats were browsing among the purple tufts . Emerging from the narrow line into the open country , Avide moorlands spread on either side ; bare as they were , they were grand evidences of man ' s industry and reliance on the ifts of ProvidenceThey
g . were peopled with sheep , as first occupants of the desert territory ; these sheep were afterwards to be fattened in England , and meanwhile the pasturage , though scanty , was Avholesome , and the moorland air health y . Beyond these Aiastes rose noble
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A Sketch From Cologne, With A Peep Into Holland.
was banished from court , only to be rendered more famous still by the publication of his " Arcadia / ' the result of his retreat . We know how CoA ** ley and Waller delighted in this ; and more than this , it was the companion of the prison hours of Charles the First .
Is the beauty of the " Arcadia" due to the bitter disappointment its author experienced when he first began to doubt the love of the fair lady Penelope Devereux ? or did he belieA-e her true till her marriage with another shook his faith in Avoman for a time . Ah ! he went back to his first love , Frances , the daughter of his old friend Sir Francis Walsinghamand married
, her ; but his desire for fame led him to offer his services to Drake , when the second expedition was undertaken against the Spaniards . Elizabeth would by no means risk the loss of " the jewel of her dominions , " and Sir Philip stayed to please her majesty . But — to please himself—he refused the croAvn of Poland .
He was doomed to fall a sacrifice to Spain . Appointed governor of Flushing by Elizabeth in 1585 , he fell in accidentally with three thousand Spaniards , marching to relieve Zutphen ; under the very walls he dropped , wounded by a musket-ball . Who does not know the anecdote connected with the dying soldier , Avho , on looking at Sir Philip ' s attendant , as
he presented his master Avith a draught to allay his feverish thirst , expressed his agony of desire for the relief , that none brought him : " Take it , " said Sir Philip , passing the untasted chalice from his lips ; " thy necessity is greater than mine . " From Zutphen they bore him to Arnheim , where his gentle wife , afterwards the bride of Essex , received , with his faithful
secretary Temple , his suffering frame ; and there , in the prime of life , at the age of thirty-three , he died . For him the first general mourning was worn . I was beginning to fall into a dream of Arcady , as I thought upon the dying warrior and his wife—she almost a bride—when the post-horn of the railAvay-guard startled me . The engine
uttered a piercing yell , and away Ave sped to Amsterdam . There was heather on the banks bordering the iron road , and goats were browsing among the purple tufts . Emerging from the narrow line into the open country , Avide moorlands spread on either side ; bare as they were , they were grand evidences of man ' s industry and reliance on the ifts of ProvidenceThey
g . were peopled with sheep , as first occupants of the desert territory ; these sheep were afterwards to be fattened in England , and meanwhile the pasturage , though scanty , was Avholesome , and the moorland air health y . Beyond these Aiastes rose noble