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Page 53
... looked , it is said , fearfully beau- tiful . Scattered about the scaffold were some of the poor woman's enemies , but upon seeing them , she simply remarked : " I am come here to die ; not to accuse my enemies . " She asked the ...
... looked , it is said , fearfully beau- tiful . Scattered about the scaffold were some of the poor woman's enemies , but upon seeing them , she simply remarked : " I am come here to die ; not to accuse my enemies . " She asked the ...
Page 71
... looked forward . to the future — to another sphere of existence , for comfort . She freely confessed that before her marriage , when she was a young and thoughtless girl , she had been guilty with Derham , but that she had been a true ...
... looked forward . to the future — to another sphere of existence , for comfort . She freely confessed that before her marriage , when she was a young and thoughtless girl , she had been guilty with Derham , but that she had been a true ...
Page 82
... looked up sternly and said : " What judge hath sent you with this sentence upon me ? " Denny replied , " Your physicians . " When the physicians came with medicine , he said an- grily , " After the judges have once passed sen- tence on ...
... looked up sternly and said : " What judge hath sent you with this sentence upon me ? " Denny replied , " Your physicians . " When the physicians came with medicine , he said an- grily , " After the judges have once passed sen- tence on ...
Page 108
... looked upon in the light of a prisoner . She wrote a bold and eloquent letter to Somerset , in which she said , " Master Tyrwhit and others have told me there goeth rumors abroad which be greatly both against my honor and honesty ...
... looked upon in the light of a prisoner . She wrote a bold and eloquent letter to Somerset , in which she said , " Master Tyrwhit and others have told me there goeth rumors abroad which be greatly both against my honor and honesty ...
Page 123
... looked upon Mary with much affection . Her conduct , in- deed , had not been attractive , and her sym- pathies for Catholicism might have rendered her odious in the sight of the pious and en- lightened Lady Jane . The king continued ...
... looked upon Mary with much affection . Her conduct , in- deed , had not been attractive , and her sym- pathies for Catholicism might have rendered her odious in the sight of the pious and en- lightened Lady Jane . The king continued ...
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Page 113 - I am with him. And when I am called from him, I fall on weeping, because whatsoever I do else but learning is full of grief, trouble, fear, and whole misliking unto me. And thus my book hath been so much my pleasure, and bringeth daily to me more pleasure and more, that in respect of it all other pleasures, in very deed, be but trifles and troubles unto me.
Page 112 - and tell you a truth which,- perchance, ye will marvel at. One of the greatest benefits that ever God gave me, is, that he sent me so sharp and severe parents, and so gentle a schoolmaster. For when I am in presence...
Page 179 - JANE, by the grace of God, Queen of England, France, and Ireland, Defender of the Faith, and of the Church of England, and also of Ireland, under Christ, in Earth the supreme Head.
Page 112 - I wist, all their sport in the park is but a shadow to that pleasure that I find in Plato. Alas! good folk, they never felt what true pleasure meant.
Page 147 - Rather do thou walk with him, ride with him, play with him, be his faery, his page, his everything that love and poetry have invented ; but watch him well ; sport with his fancies ; turn them about like the ringlets round his cheek; and if ever he meditate on power, go toss up thy baby to his brow, and bring back his thoughts into his heart by the music of thy discourse. Teach him to live unto God and unto thee ; and he will discover that women, like the plants in woods, derive their softness and...
Page 147 - I sincerely love the youth who hath espoused me ; I love him with the fondest, the most solicitous affection ; I pray to the Almighty for his goodness and happiness, and do forget at times, unworthy supplicant ! the prayers I should have offered for myself. Never fear that I will disparage my kind religious teacher, by disobedience to my husband in the most trying duties.
Page 144 - Recollectest thou who wrote, sitting upon the sea-beach the evening after an excursion to the Isle of Wight, these verses? ' Invisibly bright water ! so like air, On looking down I feared...
Page 111 - Duchess, with all the household, gentlemen and gentlewomen, were hunting in the park : I found her in her chamber, reading " Phaedon Platonis " in Greek, and that with as much delight as some gentlemen would read a merry tale in Boccace.
Page 112 - I am in presence either of father or mother, whether I speak, keep silence, sit, stand, or go, eat, drink, be merry or sad, be sewing, playing, dancing or doing anything else, I must do it, as it were, in such weight, measure and number, even...
Page 286 - I pray you all, good Christian people, to bear me witness that I die a true Christian woman, and that I...