| Isaac Disraeli - 1859 - 566 pages
...king's good nature too easily yielded ; he did not, however, without closing with this prediction : " Then take him to you ! — but, on my soul, you will repent it !" The future character of Cromwell was apparent to two of our great politicians. "This coarse unpromising... | |
| George Brodie - 1866 - 560 pages
...press his suit : ' And is there no whoe but you must carry it?' said the king ; 'then take him with you, but, on my soul, you will repent it ; ' and so went off with anger in his looks and other ominous words in his mouth.* Having thus been instrumental in... | |
| John Hill Burton - 1870 - 546 pages
...the favourite Buckingham ; and the king yielded to his pressure, flinging him the parting taunt, " Then take him to you, but, on my soul, you will repent it." This was as true as the larger presage. The two prelates had a fierce contest, and Laud, who was the... | |
| John Hill Burton - 1873 - 446 pages
...the favourite Buckingham ; and the king yielded to his pressure, flinging him the parting taunt, " Then take him to you, but, on my soul, you will repent it." This was as true as the larger presage. The two prelates had a fierce contest, and Laud, who was the... | |
| Isaac Disraeli - 1881 - 484 pages
...king's good nature too easily yielded ; he did not, however, without closing with this prediction: "Then take him to you ! — but, on my soul, you will repent it ! " The future character of Cromwell was apparent to two of our great politicians. "This coarse unpromising... | |
| 1883 - 80 pages
...reformation floating in his own brain." Then, the appointment being still pressed upon him, the King added, " Take him to you ; but, on my soul, you will repent it." Very soon was the ground of the old King's apprehension justified. In a very few years the sympathy... | |
| James Lewis - 1885 - 528 pages
...that which is in good pass," etc. Finally, on the lord keeper pressing his petition, the king said, "Then take him to you, but on my soul you will repent it." Lingard throws doubts upon Bishop Hacket's statement. It could hardly, however, have been an invention,... | |
| Arthur Christopher Benson - 1887 - 298 pages
...' And is there no whoe,* but you must carry it ? ' said the king. ' Then take him with you, but, by my soul, you will repent it ! ' and so went away in anger, using other words of fierce and ominous import, too tart to be repeated." The explanation of this seemingly enthusiastic... | |
| Lady Mary Susan Felice Wood - 1898 - 50 pages
...King's good nature too easily yielded ; he did not, however, without closing with this prediction : " Then take him to you — but on my soul you will repent it." ' ' The other story is told of Andrewes, when Bishop of Winchester. He was called to a remarkable conference,... | |
| Hensley Henson - 1908 - 484 pages
...very acute, are quickly cured. ' ' And is there no whoe, but you must carry it ? ' says the King. ' Then take him to you, but on my soul you will repent...' ; and so went away in anger, using other fierce and ominous words, which were divulged in the court, and are too tart to be repeated. So the Lord Keeper... | |
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