 No, Robin, I am not well," and then discoursed with me of her indisposition, and that her heart had been sad and heavy for ten or twelve days, and in her discourse she fetched not so few as forty or fifty great sighs.  Illustrations, Critical, Historical, Biographical, and Miscellaneous, of ... - Page 394by Richard Warner - 1824Full view - About this book
 | Northumberland (England) - 1889 - 602 pages
...interview, and heard a pitiful story. Her Majesty took him by the hand and "wrung it hard"; told him that "her heart had been sad and heavy for ten or...fetched not so few as forty or fifty great sighs." She grew rapidly worse, "remained upon her cushions four days and nights at the least ; all about her... | |
 | Ainsworth Rand Spofford, Charles Gibbon - Literature - 1893 - 484 pages
...to see her in safety and in health, which I wished might long continue. She took me by the hand and wrung it hard, and said, 'No, Robin, I am not well;'...fetched not so few as forty or fifty great sighs. 1 was grieved at the first to see her in this plight ; for in all my lifetime I never knew her fetch... | |
 | Edward Arber - English literature - 1896 - 644 pages
...ness to see her in safety and health, which I wished might long continue. She took me by the hand, and wrung it hard ; and said "No, ROBIN, I am not well...the first, to see her in this plight: for, in all my lifetime before, I never knew her fetch a sigh, but when the Queen of Scots was beheaded. Then [in... | |
 | Henry Donald Maurice Spence-Jones - England - 1898 - 502 pages
...told her it was my chief happiness to see her in safety and in health. She took my hand and wrung it, and said, 'No, Robin, I am not well,' and then discoursed...heart had been sad and heavy for ten or twelve days ; in her discourse she fetched not so few as forty or fifty great sighs.'' Then she spoke of the queen... | |
 | Mandell Creighton - 1899 - 334 pages
...to see her in safety and in health, which I wished might long continue. She took me by the hand and wrung it hard, and said : ' No, Robin, I am not well,'...great sighs. I was grieved at the first to see her in such plight ; for in all my lifetime before I never knew her fetch a sigh but when the Queen of Scots... | |
 | Robert Chambers, David Patrick - Authors, English - 1901 - 862 pages
...see her in safely, and in health, which I wished might long continue. She took me by the hand, and I hope some good conceit of thine In thy soul's thought, nil lifetime before, I never knew her fetch a sigh, but when the Queen of Scots was beheaded. Then, upon... | |
 | Robert Carey Earl of Monmouth - Great Britain - 1905 - 174 pages
...to see her in safety and in health, which I wished might long continue. She took me by the hand, and wrung it hard, and said, " No, Robin, I am not well,"...the first to see her in this plight ; for in all my lifetime before I never knew her fetch a sigh, but when the Queen of Scots was beheaded. Then upon... | |
 | Edward Spencer Beesly - Great Britain - 1906 - 266 pages
...professed to think her looking well. " No, Robin," she said, " I am not well," and then "discoursed of her indisposition, and that her heart had been...ten or twelve days, and in her discourse she fetched uot so few as forty or fifty great sighs. . . . Hereupon I wrote to the King of Scots." 1 Her melancholy... | |
 | Hugh De Sélincourt - Biography & Autobiography - 1908 - 368 pages
...to see her in safety and health, which I wished might long continue. " She took me by the hand, and wrung it hard, and said, ' No, Robin, I am not well...the first to see her in this plight : for in all my lifetime before, I never knew her fetch a sigh, but when the Queen of Scots was beheaded. . . . I used... | |
 | English literature - 1909 - 570 pages
...ness to see her in safety and health, which I wished might long continue. She took me by the hand, and wrung it hard ; and said " No, ROBIN, I am not well...the first, to see her in this plight: for, in all my lifetime before, I never knew her fetch a sigh, but when the Queen of Scots was beheaded. Then [in... | |
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