Elizabethan Sentence Examples

Around 1600, the Elizabethan Poor Law came into effect and lasted more than two centuries.

There is an Elizabethan grammar school.

S., where (in a former mansion) some of the conspirators in the Gunpowder Plot defied search for eight days (1605); and Westwood, a fine hall of Elizabethan and Carolean date on the site of a Benedictine nunnery, a mile west of Droitwich, which offered a retreat to many Royalist cavaliers and churchmen during the Commonwealth.

Among several picturesque old houses remaining, that known as the Six Chimneys, an Elizabethan structure, is the most striking.

Clevedon Court is a remarkable medieval mansion, dating originally from the early part of the 14th century, though much altered in the Elizabethan and other periods.

There is also work of the 15th century and the Elizabethan period.

The early years of Stuart London may be said to be closely linked with the last years of Elizabethan London, for the greatest men, such as Raleigh, Shakespeare and Ben Jonson, lived on into James's reign.

He submitted, however, to the Elizabethan settlement of religion, and was rewarded with the archdeaconry of Middlesex, a canonry at Canterbury and in 1560 with the deanery of St Paul's.

Of the former Inns of Chancery attached to these Inns of Court the most noteworthy buildings remaining are those of Staple Inn, of which the timbered and gabled Elizabethan front upon High Holborn is a unique survival of its character in a London thoroughfare; and of Barnard's Inn, occupied by the Mercer's School.

Hardwick Hall is a very perfect example of Elizabethan building; ruins of the old Tudor hall stand near by.

Their several histories were fused by the Elizabethan dramatists, and associated with the Maid Marian of the morris dance, who up to that time had probably only a vague connexion with Robin Hood.

The Augustan age was one of those great eras in the world like the era succeeding the Persian War in Greece, the Elizabethan age in England, and the beginning of the 19th Lk y.

Of less influence in the subsequent history of Lutheranism, but of interest as used by Archbishop Parker in the preparation of the Elizabethan articles of 1563, is the confession of Wurttemberg.

Blackmore in his tale The Maid of Sker (1872), based on a legend associated with Sker House, a fine Elizabethan building in the adjoining parish of Sker, which was formerly extra-parochial.

The grammar-schools, founded in 1594 and endowed with the revenues of a suppressed gild, include a school of the second and a school of the third grade, the former a building of red brick in the Renaissance style erected in 1880, and the latter an old Elizabethan structure.

But although the book in question was issued under letters patent, it is not really a translation of the Elizabethan book at all, but simply a reshaping of Aless's clever and inaccurate translation of Edward VI.'s first book.

Indeed, his attitude was hardly distinguishable from that of the Elizabethan Puritans, but he gradually modified it under the stress of office and responsibility.

He now constituted himself the literary apologist of the Elizabethan settlement.

The work contains a large amount of information, and shows that its compilers were men of great industry; but its chief interest lies in the fact that it was largely used by Shakespeare and other Elizabethan dramatists; Shakespeare, who probably used the edition of 1587, obtaining from the Chronicles material for most of his historical plays, and also for Macbeth, King Lear and part of Cymbeline.

Close to the town is the beautiful Elizabethan mansion of Astley Hall, which is said to have sheltered Oliver Cromwell after the battle of Preston (1648).

Educational establishments include an Elizabethan grammar school, a training college for schoolmistresses (British and Foreign School Society), and a technical school.

August he was offered, and accepted, the presidency of WashingHe was himself a voluminous contributor to the work, writing ton College, Lexington (now Washington and Lee University), a some Boo articles, mainly on Elizabethan authors or statesmen.

The parish church of St Nicholas, an antiquated cruciform structure with curious Elizabethan work in the north transept, and monuments of the Chichester family, was originally a chapel or oratory dependent on a Franciscan monastery.

Study of the Elizabethan dramatists led to the production in 1800 of the Tragedy of Antonio.

Historically, however, they are of no little interest, not only from the insight into the social life of the period which they afford, but from the important influence they exercised on the Elizabethan drama.

They are of Elizabethan date, but there are also lines of much earlier date, the fortifications of Edward I.

Educational institutions include an Elizabethan grammar school and a blue-coat school; and there is a local museum.

In language they are still Scottish; if they show any southern affectations, it is (all echoes of the older aureate style notwithstanding) the affectation of Tudor and Elizabethan English.

There are an Elizabethan grammar school, in modern buildings (1884) and an excellent technical school.

The massively moulded ormolu stair balustrade of Northumberland House, now at 49 Prince's Gate; the candelabra at Windsor and Buckingham Palace, produced in Birmingham by the firm of Messenger; the cast-iron railings with javelin heads and lictors' fasces, the tripods, Corinthian column standard lamps and candelabra, boat-shaped oil lamps and tent-shaped lustres with classic mountings, are examples of the metal-work of a style which, outside the eccentric Brighton Pavilion and excursions into Gothic and Elizabethan, was universally accepted in the United Kingdom from the days of the Regency until after the accession of Victoria.

Elizabethan period; a slight suggestion sends the interlocutors off on the discussion of current reforms in church and state and society.

It is written in the classical style of the Elizabethan age, and was appended by Dr Birch to his Historical View of the Negotiations between the Courts of England, France and Brussels, from 1592 to 1617.

The Elizabethan manor-house of Southall remains, and the parish church of Norwood, though greatly restored, has Early English and Decorated portions, a canopied tomb dated 1547 and brasses of the 17th century.

The grammar school, founded in 1503, occupies an Elizabethan building; there are also a college of divinity, a blue-coat school, and a literary institute with library and school of art.

It sufficiently accounts for the richness and variety of Elizabethan literature, and for the enthusiasm with which the English language was cultivated.

The Elizabethan grammar school, founded in 1592, is the principal educational establishment.

It seems quite evident 3 that Bacon, from position, early training and, one might almost think, natural inclination, held as his ideal of government the Elizabethan system.

It would be well-nigh impossible to exaggerate the services rendered to the ancient British tongue, and consequently to the national spirit of Wales, by these Elizabethan and Jacobean translations, issued in 1567, 1588 and 1620, which were able definitely to fix the standard of classical Welsh, and to embody the contending dialects of Gwynedd, Dyfed and Gwent for all time in one literary storehouse.

Of these two Puritan divines, Vicar Prichard, who was essentially orthodox in his behaviour, forms an interesting connecting link between the learned Elizabethan translators of the Bible and the great revivalists of the 18th century, and his moral rhymes in the vernacular, collected and printed after his death under the title of The Welshman's Candle (Canwyll y Cymry), still retain some degree of popularity amongst his countrymen.

The foundation of Lampeter College was one of the earliest signs of a new era of revived vigour and better government within the Church, although it was not till 1870 that, by Mr Gladstone's appointment of Dr Joshua Hughes to the see of St Asaph, the special claims of the Welsh Church were officially recognized, and the old Elizabethan policy was one more reverted to after a lapse of nearly two hundred years.

Their leaders renounced allegiance to the regent; she ended her not unkindly, but as Knox calls it "unhappy," life in the castle of Edinburgh; the English troops, after the usual Elizabethan delays and evasions, joined their Scots allies; and the French embarked from Leith.

The baths were visited at least four times by Mary queen of Scots, when a prisoner in charge of George, earl of Shrewsbury, other famous Elizabethan visitors being Lord Burleigh, the earl of Essex, and Robert, earl of Leicester.

But it could hardly be of sufficient importance to cause Wykeham to play the sphinx, and the story is apparently due to the Elizabethan love of quips.

The library, of Elizabethan design, contains some 45,000 volumes.

The Elizabethan administration had successfully defended its own existence and the Protestant faith against able and powerful antagonists, but this had not been accomplished without enforcing severe measures of repression and punishment upon those of the opposite faith.

It was aimed at the repeal of the whole Elizabethan legislation against the Roman Catholics and perhaps derived some impulse at first from the leniency lately shown by the administration, afterwards gaining support from the opposite cause, the return of the government to the policy of repression.

The charitable institutions include the infirmary; the cholera hospital; the eye infirmary; the fever reception house; Sir Gabriel Wood's mariners' asylum, an Elizabethan building erected in 1851 for the accommodation of aged merchant seamen; and the Smithson poorhouse and lunatic asylum, built beyond the southern boundary in 1879.

He was not satisfied with the Elizabethan settlement, had great respect for the Fathers, and was with difficulty induced to subscribe.

The town contains remains of a castle of Elizabethan date.

James thought otherwise, and attempted to carry out the Elizabethan conformity more strictly than it had been carried out in his predecessors reign.

Avebury House is Elizabethan, with a curious stone dovecot.

The Elizabethan wars were most injurious to industry, for men will not sow unless they hope to reap, and the very essence of military policy had been to deprive a recalcitrant people of the means of living.

At a short distance from the town is a moated Elizabethan half-timbered house, and also an ancient barrow of great extent.

Many of the houses are built with timber framework in Elizabethan style, and the two parts of the town are united by a bridge of 24 arches, originally erected in the 14th century, when the revenue of certain lands was set apart for its upkeep. The church of St Mary, with the exception of the tower, is a modern reconstruction.

Other buildings include an Elizabethan town hall, the grammar school, founded by Abbot Lichfield, and the picturesque almonry.

Elizabethan banquets in the Baron's Hall are are regular fixture.

Elizabethan plays were often bawdy and the audiences were rowdy!

The Elizabethan view of " sturdy beggars " was distinguished from the " impotent poor " in the legislation.

Wapping, however, exudes an old Elizabethan charm; with its cobbled streets and listed buildings.

The dashing escapades of courageous men who brought wealth to Queen Elizabeth were also included in the ranks of Elizabethan courtiers.

The building is still here, near the Elizabethan Guildhall, and you can visit the courtroom.

Elizabethan doublets - a comment dating back to 1583!

Elizabethan dramatists generally assumed that the Capitol was the site of the Senate House.

The meaning of specific colors which were allowed to be worn during the Elizabethan era are further detailed in the above link.

Would like to have been an Elizabethan explorer in another life.

The style is that generally known as the Elizabethan, and the material, dressed red freestone from the local quarry.

Interesting Facts and Information about Elizabethan jesters The role of the fool or Elizabethan Jesters were changing.

Elizabethan jewelry - a comment dating back to 1583!

The Knights Templar School chamber choir gave a very slick performance ranging from Elizabethan madrigals to songs from the shows.

The hotel, an imposing Elizabethan manor in 25 acres of woodland, was an idyllic setting.

It was he who, in 1760, renovated and extended the old Elizabethan mansion which the Berkeleys had built.

Elizabethan masques were also performed outdoors during the summer months.

History of pantomime It is generally acknowledged that British pantomime is modeled on the early masques of the Elizabethan and Stuart times.

The present church is mainly medieval with Elizabethan and Victorian additions.

Between these bookends, as it were, we have the panoply of Elizabethan stanzas, lines, meters, and rhyme schemes.

Story continues ADVERTISEMENT Act 2 is set in a recreated Elizabethan playhouse.

I hope the parallel with the Elizabethan playwrights seems clear.

Or perhaps present-day audiences have a new-found relish for gore more like that of their Elizabethan counterparts.

The two major religions in Elizabethan England were the Catholic and Protestant religions.

The roots of this plant were collected in Elizabethan times for their high starch content, which was used to stiffen fashionable linen ruffs.

His lean face was dark by contrast, and ended in a curt black beard that looked Spanish and suggested an Elizabethan ruff.

Records of theatrical performances in Elizabethan times are so scanty that no inference can be drawn from them.

Pseudonyms would be necessary for all Elizabethan and Jacobean dramatists, if their work is measured for potential subversion.

The great promoter of The Eliza- geographical discovery in the Elizabethan period was bethan Richard Hakluyt (1553-1616), who was active in the for- era mation of the two companies for colonizing Virginia i n 1606; and devoted his life to encouraging and recording similar undertakings.

Later still, in the Elizabethan period and after it, the name Watling Street seems to have been applied by anti - quaries to many Roman or reputed Roman roads in various parts of Britain, and English map-makers and inferior writers on Roman roads still perpetuate the fictions.

The adoption of machinery gradually revolutionized the methods of production; but in the first instance only certain industries were affected, and those not at the same time or in the same degree; old laws grown obsolete were repealed, but other laws affecting wage-earners and employers took their place, more complicated and elaborate than the Elizabethan code.

To this day there are many Arabic words in the vocabulary of the languages of western Europe which are a standing witness of the Crusades - words relating to trade and seafaring, like tariff and corvette, or words for musical instruments, like lute or the Elizabethan word "naker."

For a hundred years after the Elizabethan settlement the battle raged round the compulsory use of the surplice and square cap, both being objected to by the extreme Calvinists or Puritans.

When we come to Elizabethan times, we possess a few examples of the sermons of the "judicious" Hooker (1 554 - a 600); Henry Smith (1550-1591) was styled "the prime preacher of the nation"; and Lancelot Andrewes (1555-1626), whose sermons were posthumously printed at the command of James in 1628, dazzled his contemporaries by the brilliancy of his euphemism; Andrewes was called "the star of preachers."

The affectionate esteem with which he was regarded by the younger Elizabethan writers is expressed by Thomas Nashe, who says (Foure Letters Confuted) that Churchyard's aged muse might well be "grandmother to our grandiloquentest poets at this present."

Some are dinning in our ears that we Americans, and moderns generally, are intellectual dwarfs compared with the ancients, or even the Elizabethan men.

Stephen Coote 's brilliant re-evaluation of this self-made Elizabethan hero is a fascinating portrait of the man and his era.

As well as his enthusiasm for modern guitar sonorities, Julian Bream is renowned for his fervent advocacy of the Elizabethan lute.

The bow is held in the right hand with an underhand grip similar to that used by an Elizabethan viol player.

Celebrate this yuletide at Hatfield -The Hatfield House Christmas Banquet is held in the unique surroundings of the Elizabethan Old Palace of Hatfield.

You will find lace as a prominent fabric choice in such period styles and various designs as Victorian, Elizabethan, Rococo, Italian Renaissance, Georgian, Antebellum, and many others.

In many cases, the veterinarian will prescribe the cream along with an Elizabethan collar (A large, cone-shaped collar).

You can also ask your vet for an Elizabethan Collar (EC) which your dog can wear to prevent him from licking the area.

Men's clothing in the Elizabethan era was much more complicated than fashion today.

This should make it very easy to figure out what men wore in the Elizabethan era, depending on their station and wealth.

An extensive breakdown of the ranks, colors, and materials allowed to various parts of society can be found at the Elizabethan Era website, and the actual laws themselves are on the web at Elizabethan.org.

In Henry Thew Stephenson's extensive article on Elizabethan Fashion, he explains that the commoner in Elizabethan England would emulate the nobles but with less elaboration and using "cheaper materials."

The focused attention given to men's fashion in the Elizabethan era combine with extensive documentation both in writing and images to make this a fascinating period in the history of menswear.

The clothing of the Elizabethan court will forever be associated with romance, intrigue, and above all, style.

Styles for clothes are based either on a punk look, which for men and women can be sexy while keeping a definitive edge, or a romantic but edgy medieval, Renaissance (especially Elizabethan) or Victorian look.

That way, if you rent an Elizabethan dress, you can add fabric or accessories to your mask and jewelry to tie an outfit together.

The renaissance, also known as the Elizabethan era, occurred during the time of Queen Elizabeth.

While you can find a number of patterns online at sites such as Tudor Links, All About Renaissance Faires and Elizabethan Costume, it is best to study the options first and build your pattern based on what you can find.

The idea of bra strap pads is nothing new; corsets from the Elizabethan to Victorian era were often padded at the shoulder to provide comfort, especially for large-breasted women.

Along the way, additions were made to suit the given styles, so that in Elizabethan and later Colonial eras, panniers were worn on the hips.

Once you've gotten all the information you need, go from there to The Elizabethan Costuming Page, where you can then use the custom corset pattern generator.

This brilliant tool allows you to enter your measurements and from there will give you all the detailed instructions you need for building an Elizabethan corset that will fit you perfectly.

An Elizabethan corset is designed to give you a V-shape, so it's not as immediately sexy as later, more curve-hugging corsets.

From the enormous petticoats worn in the Elizabethan era to the bosom-flattening corsets favored by flappers in the 1920s, underwear does what diet and exercise can't.

Whether you're an Elizabethan gentleman with an extra-special codpiece or a sexy Santa Claus who comes bearing gifts that keep on giving, you can amuse and delight in a number of fun ways.

The clothes they fashion out of rags have a distinctively Elizabethan look to them.

The poem is as much allegorical as it is allusive to the point that any Elizabethan of high station could see themselves in any number of the characters presented in The Faerie Queene.

It is from these works that our knowledge of the gallant deeds of the English and other explorers of the Elizabethan age is mainly derived.

Amidst the vituperations of the adherents of the papacy and the later Elizabethan eulogies, and in the absence of the records on which her sentence was pronounced, Anne Boleyn's guilt remains unproved.

Other Elizabethan examples are Barlborough and Tissington Halls.

This wise moderation of the Elizabethan settlement, which had been effected before his appointment, was obviously not due to him; and Elizabeth could have placed Knox or Bonner in the chair of St Augustine had she been so minded.

In the vicinity are the castles of Murthly, one a modern mansion in the Elizabethan style, erected about 1838 from designs by James Gillespie Graham (1777-1855), and the other the old castle, still occupied, which was occasionally used as a hunting-lodge by the Scottish kings.

Lane is credited with having been the first English smoker, and through the influence and example of the illustrious Raleigh, who " tooke a pipe of tobacco a little before he went to the scaffolde," the habit became rooted among Elizabethan courtiers.

Its site is occupied by Prideaux Place, an Elizabethan mansion, which contains among other valuable pictures Van Dyck's portrait of Queen Henrietta Maria.