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Title: Raleigh
Author: Edmund Gosse
Editor: Andrew Lang
Release Date: December 20, 2008 [EBook #27580]
Language: English
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RALEIGH
ENGLISH WORTHIES.
EDITED BY ANDREW LANG.
_Price 2s. 6d. each._
ALREADY PUBLISHED:
CHARLES DARWIN. By GRANT ALLEN.
MARLBOROUGH. By GEORGE SAINTSBURY.
SHAFTESBURY (the First Earl). By H. D. TRAILL.
ADMIRAL BLAKE. By DAVID HANNAY.
IN PREPARATION:
STEELE By AUSTIN DOBSON.
SIR T. MORE By J. COTTER MORISON.
WELLINGTON By R. LOUIS STEVENSON.
LORD PETERBOROUGH By WALTER BESANT.
CLAVERHOUSE By MOWBRAY MORRIS.
LATIMER By Canon CREIGHTON.
DRAKE By W. H. POLLOCK.
BEN JONSON By J. A. SYMONDS.
ISAAK WALTON By ANDREW LANG.
CANNING By FRANK H. HILL.
London: LONGMANS, GREEN, & CO.
English Worthies
EDITED BY ANDREW LANG
RALEIGH
BY
EDMUND GOSSE, M.A.
CLARK LECTURER IN ENGLISH LITERATURE AT TRINITY COLLEGE CAMBRIDGE
LONDON
LONGMANS, GREEN, AND CO.
1886
_All rights reserved_
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SPOTTISWOODE AND CO., NEW-STREET SQUARE
LONDON
PREFACE.
The existing Lives of Raleigh are very numerous. To this day the most
interesting of these, as a literary production, is that published in
1736 by William Oldys, afterwards Norroy King at Arms. This book was a
marvel of research, as well as of biographical skill, at the time of its
appearance, but can no longer compete with later lives as an authority.
By a curious chance, two writers who were each ignorant of the other
simultaneously collected information regarding Raleigh, and produced two
laborious and copious Lives of him, at the same moment, in 1868. Each of
these collections, respectively by Mr. Edward Edwards, whose death is
announced as these words are leaving the printers, and by the late Mr.
James Augustus St. John, added very largely to our knowledge
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