 | William Draper Swan - 1845 - 482 pages
...the king's; my robe, And my integrity to Heaven, is all I dare now call my own. O Cromwell, Cromwell, Had I but served my God with half the zeal I served my king, he would not in mine age Have naked left me to mine enemies. Crom. Good sir, have patience. Wol. So I have. Farewell... | |
 | 1871 - 792 pages
...men or the smiles of princes with lamentations such as that of Cardinal Wolsey's before him ? — " Had I but served my God with half the zeal I served my king, he would not in mine age Have left me naked to mine enemies." The possibility of living for one object is being... | |
 | 1876 - 818 pages
...Shakespeare, who makes Wol.se y say, what he did say in eilect : " 0 Cromwell, Cromwell ! Had Lbut served my God with half the zeal I served my king, he would not in mine age Have left me naked to mine enemies. " The real bitterness of men before the stern laws... | |
 | 1922 - 754 pages
...forsaken." Compare that, if you will, to the declaration of Cardinal Wolsey " 0 Cromwell, Cromwell! Had I but served my God with half the zeal I served my king, he would not in mine age Have left me naked to mine enemies. ' ' The third peril is progressive deterioration. It... | |
 | William Chambers, Robert Chambers - 1846 - 934 pages
...king's : my robe, And my integrity to Heaven, is all I dare now call mine own. Oh, Cromwell, Cromwell, Had I but served my God with half the zeal I served my king, he would not in mine age Have left me naked to mine enemies ! -Hid. EVILS OP WAR. SINCE then my office hath so far... | |
 | 1846 - 536 pages
...King. Truly might they have exclaimed in the words of Cardinal Wolsey :— " Oh, Cromwell, Cromwell I Had I but served my God with half the zeal I served my king, he would not in mine age Have left me naked to mine enemies." Among the middle classes, a strong feeling of religious... | |
 | 1882 - 430 pages
...mouth. They are probably very like what he said on reviewing his life : ' O ! Cromwell, Cromwell ! had I but served my God with half the zeal I served my king, He would not in mine age have left me naked to mine enemies.' The Thames once more ! not sparkling in the sunshine,... | |
 | George Vandenhoff - 1847 - 396 pages
...king's : my robe, And my integrity to Heaven, is all 1 dare now call mine own. — O Cromwell, Cromwell! Had I but served my God, with half the zeal I served my king, he would not, in mine age, Have left me naked to mine enemies ! Crom. — Good sir, have patience. WoL— So I have.—... | |
 | James William Massie - 1847 - 228 pages
...reflection to himself, which the dramatist has expressed from the mouth of Wolsey, a H2 fallen churchman, " Had I but served my God with half the zeal I served my king, he would not in mine age have left me naked to mine enemies." The most just and reasonable principles, in such proportion,... | |
 | James Fenimore Cooper - 1847 - 470 pages
...however, all of these persons of mistaken ambition come to exclaim, with Shakspeare's Wolsey — " Had I but served my God with half the zeal I served my king, he would not in mine age Have left me naked to mine enemies." Waally's power, already tottering through the influence... | |
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Cromwell, Cromwell, Had I but served my God with half the zeal I served my king, he would not in mine age Have left me naked to mine enemies. 
