King's Favourite: The Love Story of Robert Carr and Lady EssexHutchinson & Company, 1909 - 429 էջ |
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King's Favourite: The Love Story of Robert Carr and Lady Essex Philip Gibbs Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - 1909 |
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Էջ 3 - ... as being out of countenance ; his beard was very thin ; his tongue too large for his mouth, which ever made him...
Էջ 301 - ... heard a crack from the scaffold, which caused great fear, tumult, and confusion among the spectators and throughout the hall, every one fearing hurt, as if the devil had been present, and grown angry to have his workmanship showed to such as were not his own scholars.
Էջ 6 - He was surely a man of the greatest expense in his own person of any in. the age he lived; and introduced more of that expense in the excess of clothes and diet than any other man; and was indeed the original of all those inventions from which others did but transcribe copies.
Էջ 2 - I have now done. I have passed much time in seeing the royal sports of hunting and hawking, where the manners were such as made me devise the beasts were...
Էջ 251 - I were to make my testament ; it lies in your hands to make of me what you please — either the best master and truest friend, or if you force me once to call you ingrate, which the God of heaven forbid, no so great earthly plague can light upon you.
Էջ 40 - Pronuba's priest, a bridegroom, proclaiming that those two should be sacrificed to nuptial union ; and here the poet made an apostrophe to the union of the kingdoms ; but before the sacrifice could be performed, Ben Jonson turned the globe of the earth, standing behind the altar...
Էջ 2 - I will now, in good sooth, declare to you, who will not blab, that the gunpowder fright is got out of all our heads, and we are going on, hereabouts, as if the devil was contriving every man should blow up himself, by wild riot, excess, and devastation of time and temperance.
Էջ 158 - My Lord of Rochester desiring to do the last honour to his deceased friend, requires me to desire you to deliver the body of Sir Thomas Overbury to any friend of his that desires it, to do him honour at his funeral. Herein my lord declares the constancy of his affection...
Էջ 388 - Trials,' addressed these few words to the Court. It hath, my Lord, formerly at arraignments been a custom after the King's counsel and the prisoner's defence hath been heard, briefly to sum up what hath been said : but in this we have been so formal in the distribution that I do not think it necessary. And therefore now there is no more to be done, but that the Peers will be pleased to confer, and the prisoner to withdraw until the censures be past.
Էջ 367 - Then when they had this poor gentleman in the To~wer close prisoner, where he could not escape nor stir, where he could not feed but by their hands, where he could not speak nor write but through their trunks ; then was the time to execute the last act of this tragedy.