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mdxviii c^\ fj Ji TEXS\1 hpa%1 -— - —— cludiug Volume. Portrait oj Maria xneresa. 23. LANZl'S HISTORY OF PAINTING. VOL. 3, (wliicli completes the Work.) With Portrait of Correggio. 24. MACHIAVELLIS HISTORY OF FLORENCE, PRINCE, AND OTHER Works. With Portrait. $^ ?? ®S5©$W? fi; 1 : :V :-v ' » ; /X/.' WV'T^ \ 'v'A / ' v ‘ \ ’“'v — BOHN’S STANDARD LIBRARY. LIFE AND THE 25 SCHLEGEL’S LECTURES ON THE PHILOSOPHY OF ' PHILOSOPHY OP LANGUAGE, translated by A. J. W. Mokkison. VOL. 2. Portrait of 26. LAMARTINES HISTORY OF THE GIRONDISTS. Madame Roland. BY E. FOSTER. 27 RANKES HISTORY OF THE POPES, TRANSLATED Raphael. Vol 1. Portrait of Julius II., after MARLBOROUGH, (to form 3 Yds.) 28 COXE S MEMOIRS OF THE DUKE OF Vol. I. With fine Portrait. Marlborough’s Campaigns, being all * * ATI AS containing 26 fine large Maps and Plans of Av one volume, 4to. for * ^Uiwepub\tahedinSfc original edition at £12 12s. may now be bad, in 10s. 6d. Portrait. 29 SHERIDAN’S DRAMATIC WORKS AND LIFE. VOL. 2. Portrait of the Duchess. 30. COXES MEMOIRS OF MARLBOROUGH. PORTRAIT. 31. GOETHE'S AUTOBIOGRAPHY, 13 BOOKS. VOL. 2. With Index, and Portrait 32. RANKE S HISTORY OF THE POPES. of Innocent X. (which completes 33 LAMARTINE S HISTORY OF THE GIRONDISTS. VOL. 3 of the last Revolution. the work). With a Memoir of Lamartine, and a Sketch VOL. 3 (which 34. COXE S MEMOIRS OF THE DUKE OF MARLBOROUGH. completes the work). 35 WHEATLEY ON THE COMMON PRAYER. FRONTISPIECE. (which completes the work). 36. RANKES HISTORY OF THE POPES. VOL. 3 With Portrait of Clement VII. VOL. 1. Portrait. 37. MILTON’S PROSE WORKS. COMPLETE IN 3 VOLS. IN 3 VOLS. VOL. 1. 38. MENZEL'S HISTORY OF GERMANY. COMPLETE Portrait of Charlemagne. 39. MILTON S PROSE WORKS. VOL. 2. Frontispiece. Portrait Laud. 40. MILTONS PROSE WORKS. VOL. 3. of Portrait of Charles V. 41. MENZEL'S HISTORY OF GERMANY. VOL. 2. SCHLEGEL’S /ESTHETIC AND MISCELLANEOUS WORKS, CONTAINING 42 on the Romance- Letters on Christian Art, Essay on Gothic Architecture, Remarks Beautiful, and on the Poetry of the Middle Ages, on Shakspcare, the Limits of the Language and Wisdom of the Indians. 43 GOETHE'S WORKS. VOL. 2. Containing the remainder of his Autobiography, ‘ together with his Travels in Italy, France, and Switzerland. FIESKO,” 44 SCHILLER’S WORKS, VOL. 4, CONTAINING "THE ROBBERS," " “Love and Intrigue,” and “The Ghost-Seer,” translated by Henry G. Bohn. the work). 45 MENZEL’S HISTORY OF GERMANY. VOL. 3 (which completes With Portrait of Prince Metlernich. 46. SCHLEGEL’S LECTURES ON MODERN HISTORY. 1848. 47. LAMARTINE'S HISTORY OF THE FRENCH REVOLUTION OF With Frontispiece, containing 6 Portraits. EDITION, 48. JUNIUS’S LETTERS, WITH ALL THE.NOTES OF WOODFALL’S and important additions. Complete in 2 vols. Yol. 1, containing all the Original Letters. The following are in progress : SCHILLER’S WORKS. Vol. 5 containing his Life, Poems, &c. NEAND Ell'S CHURCH HISTORY, and LIFE OF CHRIST. VASARI’S LIVES OF THE PAINTERS. THE WORKS OF JEAN PAUL RICHTER, AND TIECK. MEMOIRS OF SULLY, RETZ, COMINES, VILLEHARDOUIN. RANKE’S HISTORY OF GERMANY DURING THE REFORMATION. RANKE’S HISTORY OF PRUSSIA. TAYLOR’S HOLY LIVING AND DYING. GUERICKE’S MANUAL OF ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY, &c. BOHN’S ILLUSTRATED LIBRARY. LODGE’S PORTRAITS. Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2016 https://archive.org/details/b28146001_0003 : PORTRAITS OF ILLUSTRIOUS PERSONAGES WITH BIOGRAPHICAL AND HISTORICAL MEMOIRS OP THEIR LIVES AND ACTIONS. BY EDMUND LODGE, ESQ., E.S.A. IN EIGHT VOLUMES. VOL. III. LONDON HENRY G. BOHN, YORK STREET, COVENT GARDEN. MDCCCL. k BRADPUKT AND EVAN8, ritlNTKBS, W IUTKP RIA I! S. CONTENTS OF VOLUME TIT. 1. Queen Elizabeth Zucchero. 1603 From the Collection of the Most Nolle the Marquis of Salisbury, at Hatfield. 2. John, First Marquis of Hamilton, . Mark Gerard. 1604 From the Collection of his Grace the Duke of Hamilton, at Hamilton Palace. 3. George Clifford, Earl of Cumberland . 1605 From the Bodleian Gallery, Oxford. 4. Charles Blount, Baron Montjoy and Earl of De- vonshire Pantoxa. 1606 From the Collection of his Grace the Duke of Hamilton, at Hamilton Palace. 5. Thomas Sackville, Earl of Dorset 1608 From the Collection of his Grace the Duke of Dorset, at Knowlc. 6. Sir Thomas Bodley Jansen. 1612 From the Bodleian Gallery, Oxford. CONTENTS. 1612 Salisbury . Zucchero. 7. Robert Cecil, Earl of the Marquis of From the Collection of the Most Noble Salisbury, at Hatfield House. Mytens. 1612 8. Henry, Prince of Wales . • • Dorset, at From the Collection of his Grace the Duke of Knowle. Zucchero. 1614 9. Henry Howard, Earl of Northampton the Earl From the Collection of the Right Honourable of Carlisle, at Castle Howard. Earn Somer. 1615 10. Lady Arabella Stuart . From the Collection of the Most Noble the Marquis of Bath, at Longleat. 1617 11. Thomas Egerton, Viscount Bracelet . Frovi the Collection of the Most Noble the Marquis of Stafford, at Cleveland House. Zucchero. 1618 12. Sir Walter Raleigh . From the Collection of the Most Noble the Marquis of Bath, at Longleat. 1621 13. Mary Sydney, Countess of Pembroke . Gerard. From the Collection of Sir John Shelley Sidney, Bart., Penshurst. 14. Thomas Cecil, First Earl of Exeter . Jansen. 1621 From the Collection of the Most Noble the Marquis of Exeter, at Burghley House. 15. Henry Wriothesley', Earl of Southampton Mirevelt. 1624 From the Collection of his Grace the Duke of Bedford, at Woburn Abbey. CONTENTS. 16. James, Second Marquis of Hamilton Van Somer. 1624 From the Collection of his Grace the Duke of Hamilton, at Hamilton Palace. 17. Charles Howard of Effingham, F.art, of Not- tingham ........ 1624 From the Collection of the Right Honourable the Earl of Verulam, at Gorhambury. 18. Lodowick Stuart, Duke of Richmond Van Somer. 1624 From the Collection of the Right Honourable the Earl of Egremont, at Petworth. 19. Francis Bacon, Viscount St. Alban Van Somer. 1626 From the Collection of the Right Honourable the Earl of Verulam, at Gorhambury. 20. Thomas Howard, Earl of Suffolk . Zucchero. 1626 From the Collection of the Right Honourable the Earl of Carlisle, at Castle Howard. 21. Edward Somerset, Earl of Worcester Zucchero. 1627 From the Collection of the Right Honourable the Earl of Verulam, at Gorhambury. 22. Lucy Harington, Countess of Bedford Honthorst. Widowed, 1627 From the Collection of his Grace the Duke of Bedford, at Woburn Abbey. 23. George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham Jansen. 1628 From the Collection of the Right Honou/rable the Earl oj Clarendon, at Grove Park. 24. Fulke Greville, Lord Brooke .... 1628 From the Collection of the Right Honourable Wil- loughby dc Broke, at Compton- V&rney. CONTENTS. 1629 25. George Careav, Earl of Totnes . Zucchero. From, the Collection of the Right Honourable the Earl of Verularn, at Gorhambwry. 26. William Herbert, Earl of Pembroke Vandyke. 1630 From the Collection of the Right Honourable the Earl of Pembroke, at Wilton House. 27. Sir Hugh Middleton 1631 From the Original, in Goldsmiths’ Hall, London. 28. Henry Percy, Earl of Northumberland Vandyke. 1632 From the Collection of the Right Honourable the Earl of Egremont, at Petworth. 1633 29 . George Abbot, Archbishop of Canterbury From the Collection of the Right Honourable the Earl of Verularn, at Gorhambury. 30. Richard Weston, Earl of Portland . Vandyke. 1634 From the Collection of the Right Honourable the Earl of Verularn, at Gorhambury. <Q> O E E M EL0EABETB4. OB: 1603 QUEEN ELIZABETH. It has been an inveterate fashion to place this Princess in the class of wise monarchs. Whether this has been founded on an impartial and judicious examination of her character, or on the report of certain great authorities, to whose sincerity as well as judgment a ready credit has been given, may be, however, fairly questioned. Henry the Fourth of France, who, it should be recollected, anxiously sought her friend- ship, professed a high respect for her talents, and took care to it make known to her ; and the acute but eccentric Sixtus the Fifth regretted that his vow of celibacy excluded him from the possibility of an union with her, the issue of which he said would have been naturally qualified to govern the world. Another great person, of equal fame with these, and I think of equal rank, answered to one who was inclined to depreciate the powers of her mind, and to ascribe the success and glory of her reign to the sagacity of her counsellors, by asking, “ whether he ever heard of a weak Prince who chose wise ministers a remark, by the way, not very applicable to her, who had but the negative merit of retaining in office those who had been chosen by her father and brother. A few such testimonies and smart sayings from such sources would be at all times sufficient to fix the opinions of those who read history for amusement, that is to say of nearly the whole of mankind. It may seem bold to declare that the history of Elizabeth’s reign furnishes no substantial evidence that she possessed remarkable talents, either solid or brilliant. She had however violent passions, and the sudden bursts of hi. B 2 QUEEN ELIZABETH. multitude for pi oofs these will frequently be mistaken by the unamiable order, but of exalted talent. Hers were all of the by counterac- their baleful effects were generally neutralised timidity that prevented tion on each other. Thus it was her her father, and her from emulating the horrible tyranny of of open profligacy. her pride that saved her from the disgrace for instances We seek in vain through the whole of her life those bright jewels of generosity, benevolence, or gratitude, nature has denied them of a crown which Princes to whom counterfeit.—But we have generally been prudent enough to and leave these few must hasten to our brief compilation, await them.