Lives of the Queens of England: From the Norman Conquest, Volume 6H. Colburn, 1852 |
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Lives of the Queens of England: From the Norman Conquest, Volume 6 Agnes Strickland,Elisabeth Strickland Affichage du livre entier - 1852 |
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Page 170 - My mercy will I keep for him for evermore : and my covenant shall stand fast with him. His seed also will I make to endure for ever : and his thYone as the days of heaven.
Page 397 - Remember, O Lord, what is come upon us: consider and behold our reproach. Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens.
Page 224 - Assures our birthrights, and assumes his own. Born in broad day-light, that the ungrateful rout May find no room for a remaining doubt ;t Truth, which itself is light, does darkness shun, And the true eaglet safely dares the sun.
Page 396 - God! save me from my friends, and I will take care of my enemies.
Page 649 - Bolingbroke, who they have, as they now say, clearly discovered has all along betrayed them ; and so poor Harry is turned out from being Secretary of State, and the Seals are given to Mar ; and they use poor Harry most unmercifully, and call him knave and traitor, and God knows what. I believe all poor Harry's fault was, that he could not play his part with a grave enough face ; he could not hqjp laughing, now and then, at such Kings and Queens.
Page 190 - Beauty alone could beauty take so right: 135 Her dress, her shape, her matchless grace, Were all observed, as well as heavenly face; With such a peerless majesty she, stands As in that day she took the crown from sacred hands; Before, a train of heroines was seen — 140 In beauty foremost, as in rank, the queen.
Page 500 - We are reduced to such pitiable straits, and live in so humble a way, that even if it were the will of Heaven to restore us to our natural rank, we should not know how to play our parts with becoming dignity.
Page 209 - The queen, you must know, is of a very proud and haughty temper, and though she pretends to hate all form and ceremony, yet one sees that those who make their court that way are very well thought of. She declares always that she loves sincerity and hates flattery ; but when the grossest flattery in the world is said to her face, she seems extremely well pleased with it.
Page 445 - It," pursues Burnet, in allusion to the bill for attainting the son of James II., . " was sent up to the lords ; and it passed in that house, with an addition of an attainder of the queen, who acted as queen-regent for him. This was much opposed, for no evidence could be brought to prove that allegation; yet the thing was so notorious that it passed, and was sent down again to the commons. It was objected to there as not regular, since but one precedent, in king Heury VIII.'s time, was brought for...
Page 209 - ... one sees that those who make their court that way, are very well thought of. She declares always that she loves sincerity, and hates flattery ; but when the grossest flattery in the world is said to her face, she seems exceedingly well pleased with it. It really is enough to turn one's stomach, to hear what things are said to her of that kind, and to see how mightily she is satisfied with it.