The Seymour FamilyHoughton Mifflin, 1914 - 386 pàgines |
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Pàgina 9
... party . They watched the king carefully , they watched the new lady carefully . They found her wise and tactful in her demure gentleness , and reckoned that here was one whom they could use as a catspaw , whose beauty was less , but ...
... party . They watched the king carefully , they watched the new lady carefully . They found her wise and tactful in her demure gentleness , and reckoned that here was one whom they could use as a catspaw , whose beauty was less , but ...
Pàgina 11
... party behind her ready to back her up with insidious advice . She herself and her personal ambition counted for nothing to them , wider issues of politics and religion were bound up in their enmity for Anne and the Boleyn faction , and ...
... party behind her ready to back her up with insidious advice . She herself and her personal ambition counted for nothing to them , wider issues of politics and religion were bound up in their enmity for Anne and the Boleyn faction , and ...
Pàgina 12
... party had dined . Afterwards , while watch- ing Cromwell and Henry discussing the possibility of alliance with Spain , he ' conversed and made some acquaintance with the brother of the young lady to whom the king is now attached . ' 6 ...
... party had dined . Afterwards , while watch- ing Cromwell and Henry discussing the possibility of alliance with Spain , he ' conversed and made some acquaintance with the brother of the young lady to whom the king is now attached . ' 6 ...
Pàgina 17
... party , against the king's , she was igno- miniously snubbed . The pendulum of the king's mind , as concerned religious matters , was swinging towards the reforming party now that the dissolution of the monasteries was offering such a ...
... party , against the king's , she was igno- miniously snubbed . The pendulum of the king's mind , as concerned religious matters , was swinging towards the reforming party now that the dissolution of the monasteries was offering such a ...
Pàgina 32
... party . To which diabolical illusion , he is said to have given so much credit that he did not only estrange himself from her society at his coming home , but furnished his next wife with an excellent opportunity for pressing him to the ...
... party . To which diabolical illusion , he is said to have given so much credit that he did not only estrange himself from her society at his coming home , but furnished his next wife with an excellent opportunity for pressing him to the ...
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Pàgina 227 - Tis easy conduct when exchequers flow; But hard the task to manage well the low: For sovereign power is too depress'd or high, When kings are forc'd to sell, or crowds to buy. Indulge one labour more, my weary Muse, For Amiel, who can Amiel's praise refuse? Of ancient race by birth, but nobler yet In his own worth...
Pàgina 173 - I called at noon at Mrs. Masham's, who desired me not to let the Prophecy be published, for fear of angering the queen about the duchess of Somerset ; so I writ to the printer to stop them. They have been printed and given about, but not sold.
Pàgina 94 - Is on all sides o'ershadow'd by the high Uno'erleap'd Mountains of Necessity, Sparing us narrower margin than we deem. Nor will that day dawn at a human nod, When, bursting through the network superposed By selfish occupation — plot and plan, Lust, avarice, envy — liberated man, All difference with his fellow-mortal closed, Shall be left standing face to face with God.
Pàgina 90 - recognize and acknowledge, that " immediately upon the dissolution and decease of Elizabeth " late queen of England, the imperial crown thereof did by " inherent birthright, and lawful and undoubted succession, " descend and come to his most excellent majesty, as being " lineally, justly, and lawfully, next and sole heir of the
Pàgina 149 - My first duchess was a Percy, and she never took such a liberty.
Pàgina 252 - I remember, sir, with a melancholy pleasure, the situation of the honourable gentleman ' who made the motion for the repeal ; in that crisis, when the whole trading interest of this empire, crammed into your lobbies, with a trembling and anxious expectation, waited, almost to a winter's return of light, their fate from your resolutions.
Pàgina 25 - So black was the mourning, And white were the wands, Yellow, yellow the torches, They bore in their hands. The bells they were muffled, And mournful did play, While the royal Queen Jane She lay cold in the clay. Six knights and six lords Bore her corpse through the grounds; Six dukes followed after, In black mourning gownds. The flower of Old England Was laid in cold clay, Whilst the royal King Henrie Came weeping away.
Pàgina 237 - Dodd; who contributed to the Popish idea one had imbibed, by haranguing entirely in the French style, and very eloquently and touchingly. He apostrophised the lost sheep, who sobbed and cried from their souls — so did my Lady Hertford and Fanny Pelham, till I believe the City dames took them both for Jane Shores.
Pàgina 151 - Cousin Seymour, your health." The painter replied, " My lord, I really do believe that I have the honour of being of your grace's family.
Pàgina 188 - Hertford, fitted or to shine in courts With unaffected grace, or walk the plain With innocence and meditation join'd In soft assemblage, listen to my song, Which thy own Season paints ; when Nature all Is blooming and benevolent, like thee.