 | Henry Card - 1820 - 264 pages
...kingdom. I do assure you," proceeds the Cardinal, " I have often kneeled before him, sometimes for three hours together, to persuade him from his will and appetite, but could not prevail." — Fiddes's Life of Wolsey, p. 501. Long before the reign of Henry, the building and reparation of.... | |
 | Robert Dodsley, Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield - 1821 - 304 pages
...he eitpired, he said to the king's officers, who stood near his hed : " If I had served God half so diligently as I have served the King, he would not have given me over in ror grey hairs." Thus died the famous Cardinal Wolsey. His greatest crime was his amhition, and it... | |
 | Henry Southern, Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas - 1822 - 392 pages
...be against me ; how it is framed I knowe not. But if I had served God, as diligently as I have done the king, he would not have given me over in my grey haires. But this is the just rewarde that I must receive, for my diligent pains and study, that I have... | |
 | 1822 - 384 pages
...be against me ; how it is framed I knowe not. But if I had served God, as diligently as I have done the king, he would not have given me over in my grey haires. But this is the just rewarde that I must receive, for my diligent pains and study, that I have... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1823 - 398 pages
...I have k.ueeled before him for three hours together, to persuade him from hi&will and appe» tite, but could not prevail. Had I but served God as diligently as I have served the king, he would net have given me over in my grey hairs. But this is the just re. ward that I must receive for my indulgent... | |
 | 1823 - 584 pages
...be against me ; how it is framed I knowe not. But if I had served God, as diligently as I have done the king, he would not have given me over in my grey haires. But this is the just rewarde that I must receive, for tny diligent pains and study, that I... | |
 | George Howard - 1824 - 616 pages
...will endanger the one half of his kingdom. I do assure you I have often kneeled before him, sometimes three hours together, to persuade him from his will and appetite, but could not prevail ; and, Master Kingston, had I but served God as diligently as I have served the king, he would * It... | |
 | Augustine Skottowe - 1824 - 708 pages
...: it was copied almost literally from Holinshed. " If I had served God as diligently as I have done the king, he would not have given me over in my grey hairs." The death of the great child of honour is narrated, not exhibited, in the drama. * Shakspeare gives... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1824 - 340 pages
...he will endanger one half of his kingdom. I do assure you I have kneeled before^him for three hour-! together, to persuade him from his will and appetite, but could not proVail. Had I but served God as diligently as I have served the ting, he would not have given mo over... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1825 - 780 pages
...three hours together, to persuade him from his will and appetite ; hut could not prevail. Had I hut served God as diligently as I have served the king, he would not have given me over in my gray hairs. But this is .the just reward that I must receive for my indulgent pains and study, not... | |
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... had I but served God as diligently as I have served the king, he would not have given me over in my gray hairs. 
