A history of England from the first invasion by the Romans (to the Revolution in 1688).1847 |
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الصفحة 316 - I, that was wont to behold her riding like Alexander, hunting like Diana, walking like Venus, the gentle wind blowing her fair hair about her pure cheeks, like a nymph, sometimes sitting in the shade like a goddess, sometimes singing like an angel, sometimes playing like Orpheus ; behold the sorrow of this world! once amiss hath bereaved me of all.
الصفحة 277 - I cannot, most dear queen, consent that you should expose it to danger. For upon your well doing consists all the safety of your whole kingdom: and therefore preserve that above all. Yet will I not, that in some sort so princely and rare a magnanimity should not appear to your people and to the world, as it is.
الصفحة 241 - Madam," said - the earl of Kent, " you had hetter leave such popish " trumperies, and bear him in your heart." She replied, " I cannot hold in my hand the representation of his " sufferings, but I must at the same time bear him in
الصفحة 222 - England, had, with the aid and ahettance of her secretaries Nau and Curie, compassed and imagined divers matters tending to the hurt, death, and destruction of the queen, contrary to the form of the statute specified in the commission. This, by the act, was equivalent to a sentence of death against all the three, to be carried into execution at the pleasure of the queen. A provision was, however, added...
الصفحة 349 - She chafed much; walked fastly to and fro ; looked with discomposure in her visage ; and I remember, she catched my girdle when I kneeled to her, and swore. ' By God's son I am no queen, that man is above me; — who gave him command to come here so soon ? I did send him on other business.
الصفحة 242 - So perish all her enemies I" subjoined the dean of Peterborough. " So perish all the enemies of the gospel!" exclaimed, in a still louder tone, the fanatical earl of Kent. Not a voice was heard to cry amen. Party feeling was absorbed in admiration and pity *. Before the execution of Mary, Elizabeth had balanced between the fear of infamy and the gratification of revenge.
الصفحة 444 - A sharp stone, as much as a man's fist, had been put under her back: upon her was...
الصفحة 393 - ... hesitation ; and she always suspected that some interested motive lurked under the pretence of zeal for her service. Hence she often suffered months, sometimes years, to roll away before she came to a conclusion ; and then it required the same industry and address to keep her steady to her purpose, as it had already cost to bring her to it. The ministers, in their confidential correspondence, perpetually lamented this infirmity in the queen : in public they employed all their ingenuity to screen...
الصفحة 349 - It was long before more gracious discourse did fall to my hearing, but I was then put out of my trouble, and bid ' go home ' I did not stay to be bidden twice. If all the Irish rebels had been at my heels, I should not have made better speed, for I did now flee from one whom I both loved and feared.
الصفحة 394 - She seemed to have forgotten that she ever had a mother : but was proud to remind both herself and others that she was the daughter of a powerful monarch, of Henry VIII. On occasions of ceremony she appeared in all her splendour, accompanied by the great officers of state, and with a numerous retinue of lords and ladies dressed in their most gorgeous apparel . In reading the accounts of her court, we may sometimes fancy ourselves transported into the palace of an eastern princess.