Blighted Ambition, Or, The Rise and Fall of the Earl of Somerset: A Romance in Three Volumes ...G. and W.B. Whittaker, 1822 - 407 Seiten |
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... Lady Frances await the arrival of her page ; and he no sooner entered her presence than she chid him for his negligent delay , but more especially for the signs of intem- perance he showed in his gait and look . Why , sirrah , how comes ...
... Lady Frances await the arrival of her page ; and he no sooner entered her presence than she chid him for his negligent delay , but more especially for the signs of intem- perance he showed in his gait and look . Why , sirrah , how comes ...
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... Lady Frances used all her arts to render them effectual . Her first pro- ject was to mix a certain powder with his sugar - bread and codinats of the dessert , on which Essex usually feasted largely , after he had well eaten of meat ...
... Lady Frances used all her arts to render them effectual . Her first pro- ject was to mix a certain powder with his sugar - bread and codinats of the dessert , on which Essex usually feasted largely , after he had well eaten of meat ...
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... Lady Frances crossed the Thames on a fine moonlight night and entered Forman's cottage just as the astrologer had completed his calculations . The horoscope boded ill to Essex , good to Rochester had already been predicted , and as a ...
... Lady Frances crossed the Thames on a fine moonlight night and entered Forman's cottage just as the astrologer had completed his calculations . The horoscope boded ill to Essex , good to Rochester had already been predicted , and as a ...
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... Lady Frances repaired to their barge , which was drawn up at Vauxhall to elude discovery , and charmed with the mysteries of the astrologer , whom they fancied had completed their happiness , they gave vent to their feelings in the ...
... Lady Frances repaired to their barge , which was drawn up at Vauxhall to elude discovery , and charmed with the mysteries of the astrologer , whom they fancied had completed their happiness , they gave vent to their feelings in the ...
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... Lady Frances , " but it must not be a wild - goose chase ; -on what grounds shall we move his majesty for a separation ? " " Nay , dearest love , there I am un- able to give advice . The king hath boggled so much at the nullity between ...
... Lady Frances , " but it must not be a wild - goose chase ; -on what grounds shall we move his majesty for a separation ? " " Nay , dearest love , there I am un- able to give advice . The king hath boggled so much at the nullity between ...
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
66 My Lord Andrew Melville answered Archbishop artist asked astrologer barge baron Billy Weston bishops bowed braket bravo bury Cambro Mead Carlile CHAP chester church Cicely Coppinger Coun Countess of Essex court courtiers divorce doth Earl of Essex Earl of Northampton Edward Sackville exclaimed eyes favour favourite Forman give grace hand hath hear Heidon honour James James's King King's Lady Frances land look Lord Bruce Lord Sanquhar Lordship Majesty marriage Martin Franklin Master Melville Mistress Turner never night noble nobleman nullity offence opinion palace Palsgrave passed priests Prince Henry Prince of Wales proceeded Puritans quoth Raid of Ruthven reason recusants reign religion replied Overbury Reynolds Rochester Rochester's royal Scotland shew Sir Daniel Sir Edward Sackville Sir Thomas Sir Thomas Overbury Sirrah Somerset speech sweet sweet Lord sword thee things thou art tion Viscount Whitehall witches words
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 334 - tis too true; How smart a lash that speech doth give my conscience! The harlot's cheek, beautied with plastering art, Is not more ugly to the thing that helps it Than is my deed to my most painted word: O heavy burden!
Seite 83 - How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank ! Here will we sit and let the sounds of music Creep in our ears; soft stillness and the night Become the touches of sweet harmony.
Seite 118 - I will be bound to pay it ten times o'er, On forfeit of my hands, my head, my heart: If this will not suffice, it must appear That malice bears down truth. And I beseech you, Wrest once the law to your authority: To do a great right, do a little wrong, And curb this cruel devil of his will.
Seite 360 - that is no subject for the tongue of a lawyer, nor is it lawful to be disputed. It is atheism and blasphemy to dispute what God can do : good Christians content themselves with His will revealed in His word ; so it is presumption and high contempt in a subject to dispute what a king can do, or say that a king cannot do this or that ; but rest in that which is the king's will revealed in his law.
Seite 189 - You, brother mine, that entertain'd ambition, Expell'd remorse and nature; who, with Sebastian, Whose inward pinches therefore are most strong, Would here have kill'd your king; I do forgive thee, Unnatural though thou art. Their understanding Begins to swell, and the approaching tide Will shortly fill the reasonable shore That now lies foul and muddy.
Seite 1 - These violent delights have violent ends, And in their triumph die; like fire and powder, Which, as they kiss, consume...
Seite 218 - Zealand, to give you that satisfaction your sword can render you, accompanied with a worthy gentleman my second, in degree a knight ; and for your coming I will not limit you a peremptory day, but desire you to make a definite and speedy repair for your own honour, and fear of prevention, until which time you shall find me there. Tergosa, Aug. 10, 1613.
Seite 83 - Sit, Jessica : look, how the floor of heaven Is thick inlaid with patterns of bright gold'; There's not the smallest orb, which thou behold'st, But in his motion like an angel sings, Still quiring to the young-ey'd cherubins : Such harmony is in immortal souls ; But, whilst this muddy vesture of decay Doth grossly close it in5, we cannot hear it.
Seite 354 - And to provide for this it prays " that all cathedral churches may be put down, where the service of God is grievously abused by piping with organs, singing, ringing, and trowling of psalms from one side of the choir to another, with the squeaking of chanting choristers, disguised (as are all the rest) in white surplices ; some in corner caps and filthy copes, imitating the fashion and manner of antichrist the pope, that man of sin and child of perdition, with his other rabble of miscreants and shavelings.