Walter Raleigh
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Sep 16, 2026
Patrick WallaceNARRATOR
For the Scots, Sir George Hume, now Earl of Dunbar, Secretary Elphinston, after Earl of Balmarino, and as wise a man as was in England or Scotland, the Lord of Kinloss, a very honest but weak man.
Patrick WallaceNARRATOR
You are now to observe that Salisbury had shaken off all that were great with him, and of his faction in Queen Elizabeth's days, as Sir Walter Raleigh, Sir George Carew, the Lord Grey, the Lord Cobham.
Patrick WallaceNARRATOR
The three first, very able men as the world had, the last but one degree from a fool, yet served their turns better than a wiser man by his greatness with the Queen.
Patrick WallaceNARRATOR
For they would put him on anything and make him tell any lie with as great confidence as a truth.
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Patrick WallaceNARRATOR
The Puritan, the Lord Grey of Wilton, a very hopeful gentleman, blasted in the very bud.
Patrick WallaceNARRATOR
The Papists, Watson and Clarke, priests, and Parham, a gentleman.
Patrick WallaceNARRATOR
The atheist, Sir Walter Raleigh, then generally so believed, though after brought by affliction, the best schoolmistress to be, and so died, a most religious gentleman.
Patrick WallaceNARRATOR
This treason was compounded of strange ingredients, and more strange than true.
James K. WhiteNARRATOR
As he grows sure, death becomes to him more and more a triumph over life, not at all, or to be accurate, not at all obviously, in the Christian sense of more jognua viti, because death is the gate of life.
James K. WhiteNARRATOR
But by virtue of its mere cessation, it has for him a meaning of which an echo has escaped into Sir Walter Raleigh's phrase, O just, eloquent, and mighty death.
James K. WhiteNARRATOR
The thought of death as a
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Danielle ClarkeGUEST
But other materials in the Folger manuscripts suggest direct knowledge of and interaction with other sources.
Danielle ClarkeGUEST
For example, the copies of Raleigh's The Lie and Henry King's The Exequie, not in, which we haven't included in the edition, um, point to Southwell's proximity to these kinds of networks.
Danielle ClarkeGUEST
At several points, in addition to her acrostic poem on him, Southwell makes allusions to the meditative poems of, uh, Francis Quarles.
Danielle ClarkeGUEST
She mentions...
Solomon SmithHOST
Both of these are peaceful predominantly, but one would occasionally come very close to armed conflict.
Solomon SmithHOST
The first of these documented trips was commanded by Bartholomew Gosnell, He's a veteran of Raleigh's ill-fated enterprise at Roanoke.
Solomon SmithHOST
His voyage to New England in 1602 was the first to bring back extensive information on the people and the products of the area.
Solomon SmithHOST
It was financed by the Earl of Southampton and several other noblemen.
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Solomon SmithHOST
First, George Plompham died, as well as his father in England, which removed the chief promoter of this colony.
Solomon SmithHOST
Then a fire consumed most of supplies and lodgings, leaving the colonists wondrously distressed.
Solomon SmithHOST
And finally, Raleigh Gilbert, the new president of the colony and leader at the colony, learned of the death of his brother.
Solomon SmithHOST
So he returned to England to assume his inheritance.
Lisa ReichertNARRATOR
The Trafalgar Square gamin disappeared, and at last my Sea Urchin stood before me.
Lisa ReichertNARRATOR
As the little Raleigh may have looked, he looked at me, and I saw in the face then rather the wonder of the sea itself than the crude dancing desire of the little adventurer who would sail it.
Lisa ReichertNARRATOR
And it was the wonder of the sea embodied in a child that I desired to paint, not the wakening of a human spirit of gay seamanship and love of peril.
Lisa ReichertNARRATOR
That's for a Christmas number.
Matt FraddHOST
Is it Sir Raleigh? Is that what it's called or something?
Jimmy AkinGUEST
Sir Walter Raleigh?
Matt FraddHOST
Yes.
Jimmy AkinGUEST
Uh-huh.
Marsha Epic HarrisNARRATOR
Section 3.
Marsha Epic HarrisNARRATOR
Sir Walter Raleigh's Virginia Colonies, 1584-1587.
Marsha Epic HarrisNARRATOR
Part 1.
Marsha Epic HarrisNARRATOR
The Account by John A. Doyle.
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Marsha Epic HarrisNARRATOR
The Planting of the First Colonies, 1562-1733, by Francis Whiting Halsey.
Marsha Epic HarrisNARRATOR
Section 4.
Marsha Epic HarrisNARRATOR
Sir Walter Raleigh's Virginia Colonies 2.
Marsha Epic HarrisNARRATOR
The Return of the Colonists with Sir Francis Drake, 1586, by Ralph Lane.
Bob GonzalezNARRATOR
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Bob GonzalezNARRATOR
What Is Our Life? by Sir Walter Raleigh What is our life? The play of passion.
Bob GonzalezNARRATOR
Our mirth? The music of division.
Bob GonzalezNARRATOR
Our mother's wombs the tiring houses be, where we are dressed for life's short comedy.
Bob GonzalezNARRATOR
Heaven the spectator is, who sits and views whosoever doth act amiss.
Bob GonzalezNARRATOR
The graves which hide us from the scorching sun are like drawn curtains when the play is done.
Bob GonzalezNARRATOR
thus playing post we to our latest rest and then we die in earnest not in jest end of what is our life by sir walter raleigh Two Anonymous Poems My love in her attire doth show her wit, It doth so well become her, For every season she hath dressings fit, For winter, spring, and summer.
Bob GonzalezNARRATOR
No beauty she doth miss when all her robes are on, But beauty's self she is when all her robes are gone.
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As he grows sure, death becomes to him more and more a triumph over life, not at all, or to be accurate, not at all obviously, in the Christian sense of more jognua viti, because death is the gate of life.
speaker_5NARRATOR
But by virtue of its mere cessation, it has for him a meaning of which an echo has escaped into Sir Walter Raleigh's phrase, O just, eloquent, and mighty death.
speaker_5NARRATOR
The thought of death as a
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"Jill first, please, sir,"
Lynette CaulkinsNARRATOR
Said Ed, the gentle squire of dames, spreading his overcoat on the sled as eagerly as ever Raleigh laid down his velvet cloak for a queen to walk upon.
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"All right.
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Just lay easy, my dear, and I won't hurt you a mite if I can help it."
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