"Mary Stuart" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Life of Margaret Tudor, Magdalene of France, and Mary of Lorraine. 2. Continuation of Mary of Lorraine, Margaret Douglas, Countess of Lennox. 3. and 4. Life of Mary Stuart. ...
— Notes and Queries, Number 235, April 29, 1854 • Various
... many varied meters have won for him a unique position in poetry. He has been called "the greatest metrical inventor in English literature." His works in French and Latin show him to be a poet in three languages. His best-known works are "Poems and Ballads," "Songs before Sunrise," and "Mary Stuart." He is the greatest living ...
— Graded Poetry: Seventh Year • Various
... make us live so familiarly as Scott does amidst the political and religious controversies of two or three centuries' duration, to be the actual witnesses, as it were, of Margaret of Anjou's throes of vain ambition, and Mary Stuart's fascinating remorse, and Elizabeth's domineering and jealous balancings of noble against noble, of James the First's shrewd pedantries, and the Regent Murray's large forethought, of the politic craft of Argyle, the courtly ruthlessness of Claverhouse, ...
— Sir Walter Scott - (English Men of Letters Series) • Richard H. Hutton
... Elizabeth to the King of Spain in the delicate matter of Mendoza, and afterwards counsellor to James I, and Lieutenant of the Tower. This Esme was a man of dark devices. It was he who negotiated with Mary Stuart for Elizabeth; it was he who wormed out of Cobham the evidence against the great Raleigh. He became rich, and his sister (the widow of Henry de Kirkhaven, Lord of Hemfleet) marrying into the family of the Wottons, the wealth of the house was further increased by the union ...
— For the Term of His Natural Life • Marcus Clarke
... M. Bauchart has only written about French lady book-lovers, or about women who, like Mary Stuart, were more than half French. Nor would it be easy for an English author to name, outside the ranks of crowned heads, like Elizabeth, any Englishwomen of distinction who had a passion for the material side of literature, ...
— Books and Bookmen • Andrew Lang
... In 1548, Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots, a child of five years only, disembarked at the wonderfully quaint little town of Roscoff to marry the Dauphin of France, who afterwards reigned as Francis II. She made a triumphal entry into ...
— The Argosy - Vol. 51, No. 2, February, 1891 • Various
... Rizzio, at the feet of Mary Stuart, by her husband and associate conspirators (page 56), Frontispiece Painting ...
— The Great Events by Famous Historians, Vol. 1-20 • Various
... profession—'Lias had been a zealous teacher and a voracious reader; and through the dreams of fifteen years the didactic faculty had persisted and grown amazingly. He played schoolmaster now to all the heroes of history. Whether it were Elizabeth wrangling with Mary Stuart, or Cromwell marshalling his Ironsides, or Buckingham falling under the assassin's dagger at 'Lias's feet, or Napoleon walking restlessly up and down the deck of the 'Bellerophon,' 'Lias rated them every one. He was lord of a shadow ...
— The History of David Grieve • Mrs. Humphry Ward |
