The Life of Lady Jane GreyC. M. Saxton, 1858 - 298 pages |
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... Never was the man merry who had more than one woman in his bed , one friend in his Dosom , one faith in his heart . " His son- Henry Grey , third Marquis of Dorset , came to · the title in 1530 He was father to LADY JANE 16 THE LIFE OF.
... Never was the man merry who had more than one woman in his bed , one friend in his Dosom , one faith in his heart . " His son- Henry Grey , third Marquis of Dorset , came to · the title in 1530 He was father to LADY JANE 16 THE LIFE OF.
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... never for a moment considering the heart of his sister . The French king was fifty - three years old while Mary was only sixteen , and very charming in her beauty . She was deeply in love with Charles Brandon , but saw that opposition ...
... never for a moment considering the heart of his sister . The French king was fifty - three years old while Mary was only sixteen , and very charming in her beauty . She was deeply in love with Charles Brandon , but saw that opposition ...
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... never do so . They were soon privately married in Paris , after which Mary wrote the king , her brother , imploring his pardon for the step she had taken without his leave . They then travelled to Calais , at which place her marriage ...
... never do so . They were soon privately married in Paris , after which Mary wrote the king , her brother , imploring his pardon for the step she had taken without his leave . They then travelled to Calais , at which place her marriage ...
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... never loved any one else . The cardinal was so blind as not to see the affec- tion which the young couple entertained for each • other , and Henry himself first made the discov- ery , and from the jealousy which at once filled his heart ...
... never loved any one else . The cardinal was so blind as not to see the affec- tion which the young couple entertained for each • other , and Henry himself first made the discov- ery , and from the jealousy which at once filled his heart ...
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... never fully recovered from his bitter loss is very evident from the history of his sub- sequent career . Anne was dismissed to her father's house , being very much offended and vowing that if it ever were in her power , she would be ...
... never fully recovered from his bitter loss is very evident from the history of his sub- sequent career . Anne was dismissed to her father's house , being very much offended and vowing that if it ever were in her power , she would be ...
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Page 112 - I wise, 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 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 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...
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 138 - the innocency of childhood, the beauty of youth, the solidity of middle, the gravity of old age, and all at eighteen ; the birth of a princess, the learning of a clerk, the life of a saint, yet the death of a malefactor, for her parent's offences.
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 42 - ... had I but served God as diligently as I have served the king, he would not have given me over in my gray hairs.
Page 276 - God ? Far be that from me. I am thy workmanship, created in Christ Jesus. Give me grace, therefore, to tarry thy leisure, and patiently to bear thy works, assuredly knowing, that as thou canst, so thou wilt, deliver me, when it shall please thee, nothing doubting or mistrusting thy goodness towards me ; for thou knowest better what is good for me than I do : therefore do with me in all things what thou wilt, and plague me what way thou wilt.