In the order of literature, as in others, there is no act that is not the coronation of an infinite series of causes and the sourc...e of an infinite series of effects.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When I received this [coronation] ring I solemnly bound myself in marriage to the realm; and it will be quite sufficient for the m...emorial of my name and for my glory, if, when I die, an inscription be engraved on a marble tomb, saying, "Here lieth Elizabeth, which reigned a virgin, and died a virgin."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I should like to have seen a gallery of coronation beauties, at Westminster Abbey, confronted for a moment by this band of Island ...girls; their stiffness, formality, and affectation contrasted with the artless vivacity and unconcealed natural graces of these savage maidens. It would be the Venus de' Medici placed beside a milliner's doll.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »