Memoirs of Prince Rupert, and the Cavaliers: Including Their Private Correspondence, Now First Published from the Original Manuscripts, Volume 3 (Google eBook)

Eliot Warburton, Eliot Warburton (i.e. Bartholomew Elliott George)

Bentley, 1849 - Great Britain

Contents

• CHAPTER II: 233
• CHAPTER III: 391
• THE LAST: 417
• APPENDIX: 456
• A MARQUIS OP WORCESTER LORD GLAMORGANS LETTER 51 5: 531
• TOYAGE TO THE RIVER GAMBIA: 538
• prince Ruperts log: 546
• H PRINOE RUPERTS LETTER TO SIR JOHN GRENVILLE 552: 552

Popular passages

Page 401 - Did clap their bloody hands. He nothing common did or mean Upon that memorable scene, But with his keener eye The axe's edge did try; Nor called the gods, with vulgar spite, To vindicate his helpless right, But bowed his comely head Down, as upon a bed.‎

Page 511 - Content thyself to be obscurely good. When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, The post of honour is a private station.‎

Page 408 - In a word, he was a man, that whoever shall, after him, deserve best of the English nation, he can never think himself undervalued, when he shall hear, that his courage, virtue, and fidelity, is laid in the balance with, and compared to, that of the lord Capel.‎

Page 173 - Sir, the crown of England is, and will be, where it ought to be ; we fight to maintain it there. But the king, misled by evil counsellors, or through a seduced heart, hath left his parliament, under God the best assurance of his crown and family. The maintaining of this schism is the ground of this unhappy war on your part, and what sad effects it hath produced in the three kingdoms is visible to all men.‎

Page 476 - In th' English fleet each ship resounds with joy And loud applause of their great leader's fame : In fiery dreams the Dutch they still destroy, And, slumbering, smile at the imagined flame.‎

Page 222 - But so have I known a bold trooper fight in the confusion of a battle, and being warm with heat and rage, received, from the swords of his enemy, wounds open like a grave; but he felt them not, and when, by the streams of blood, he found himself marked for pain, he refused to consider then what he was to feel to-morrow : but when his rage had cooled into the temper of a man, and clammy moisture had checked...‎

Page 490 - ... dedicating his life to their pursuit, like us, who, wanting capacity for momentous views, make serious study of what is only the transitory occupation of a genius. Had the court of the first Charles been peaceful, how agreeably had the prince's congenial propensity flattered and confirmed the inclination of his uncle...‎

Page 478 - De Witt himself, the sworn foe of England, bore the following remarkable testimony to the gallantry of her seamen: " If the English were beat, their defeat did them more honour than all their former victories. No fleet but theirs could, after the first day's fight, have been brought to engage again. English men may be killed, English ships may be burned, but English courage is invincible.‎

Page 185 - ... to little purpose : my conclusion is, to desire you to seek your subsistence, until it shall please God to determine of my condition, somewhere beyond seas; to which end I send you herewith a pass ; and I pray God to make you sensible of your present condition, and give you means to redeem what you have lost; for I shall have no greater joy in a victory, than a just occasion without blushing to assure you of my being " Your loving uncle, and most faithful friend, ‎

Page 433 - Was beat with fist instead of a stick ; and that the wonderful lines upon honour and a bubble, have hitherto passed without notice : Honour is like the glassy bubble, Which cost philosophers such trouble ; Where, one part crack'd, the whole does fly, And wits are crack'd to find out why.‎

Bibliographic information

• Title: Memoirs of Prince Rupert, and the Cavaliers: Including Their Private Correspondence, Now First Published from the Original Manuscripts, Volume 3; Memoirs of Prince Rupert, and the Cavaliers: Including Their Private Correspondence, Now First Published from the Original Manuscripts, Memoirs of Prince Rupert, and the Cavaliers: Including Their Private Correspondence, Now First Published from the Original Manuscripts; Volume 3 of Memoirs of Prince Rupert, and the Cavaliers, Memoirs of Prince Rupert, and the Cavaliers
• Authors: Eliot Warburton, Eliot Warburton (i.e. Bartholomew Elliott George)
• Publisher: Bentley, 1849
• Original from: Harvard University
• Digitized: Aug 24, 2005