Lives of the Queens of England, from the Norman Conquest: With Anecdotes of Their Courts, Now First Published from Official Records and Other Authentic Documents, Private as Well as Public, Band 11Lea and Blanchard, 1848 |
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Seite 220 - burial, and service was celebrated, and a funeral sermon preached generally in her praise at every parish church, but not universally, for a Jacobite clergyman had the audacity to take for his text the verse, "Go, see now this cursed woman, and bury her, for she is a king's daughter." The same insult, if our memory holds good, had been
Seite 32 - ceremonial was completed, each signing the deed. The oath of allegiance to William and Mary was remarkable for its simplicity ; it ran thus : " I do promise and swear that I will be faithful and bear true allegiance to their majesties king William and queen Mary. So help me God.
Seite 121 - high and low with happy Harry closed. This prince, though great in arms, the priest withstood, Near though he was, yet not the next of blood. Had Richard unconstrained resigned the crown, A king can give no more than is his own. The title stood
Seite 148 - old fox and his cubs do not escape your hands. You are to secure all the avenues, that no man escape. This you are to put into execution at five in the morning precisely, and by that hour
Seite 286 - our religion is lost, If the ladies thus ogle the knights of the toast. 1 " ' Your highness observes how I labour and sweat, Their affections to raise and attention to get ; And sure when I preach all the world will agree, That their eyes and their ears should be pointed at me ; But
Seite 39 - Tis observed at court who weeps, and who wears black, for good king Sancho's death,' the words were made to come home to her. Again, when the queen of Arragon is going in procession, it is said, 'She usurps the throne, keeps the old king in prison, and, at the same time, is praying for a blessing on her army.
Seite 154 - I am just told," continues the princess Anne, " by pretty good hands, that as soon as the wind turns westerly, there will be a guard set upon the prince and me. If you hear there is any such thing designed, and that 'tis easy to you, 1 pray let me see you before the wind changes, foi
Seite 166 - she will rob her of all the joy and quiet of her life, for if that day should come, I could never enjoy a happy minute, and I swear to you I would shut myself up and never see a creature. You may see all this would have come upon me if you had not been,
Seite 278 - 3 vented itself in the following bitter epigram, the more bitter because founded on truth :— "Old Jacob, in his wondrous mood, To please the wise beholders, Has placed old Nassau's hook-nosed head On poor .¿Eneas
Seite 189 - gained! Or a weak argument by force maintained ? " For where is e'en thy image on our earth, Since heaven will claim thy residence and birth? And God himself has said, " Ye shall not find it here !" Since this inferior world is but heaven's dusky shade, By dark reverted rays from its reflection made. "Is not good