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The Project Gutenberg EBook of Raleigh, by Edmund Gosse This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net Title: Raleigh Author: Edmund Gosse Editor: Andrew Lang Release Date: December 20, 2008 [EBook #27580] Language: English Character set encoding: ASCII *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK RALEIGH *** Produced by Brownfox and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net 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_ PRINTED BY 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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