The Overbury Mystery: A Chronicle of Facts and Drama of the LawT.F. Unwin, Limited, 1925 - 327 էջ Concerning the events leading up to the death of Sir Thomas Overbury, and the arraignment of Lady Frances Howard, the Earl of Essex, and their agents for his murder. |
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... carried to the glory of heaven . " For myself I enjoy grubbing in old books , extracting long passages from them that bear on the matter in hand , piecing them together , comparing them , guessing at their falsities and blunders and ...
... carried to the glory of heaven . " For myself I enjoy grubbing in old books , extracting long passages from them that bear on the matter in hand , piecing them together , comparing them , guessing at their falsities and blunders and ...
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... carry them across the country to be mothers of new races of landed gentry in other counties . Thomas was a youth of ambition and rejoiced the hearts of his parents by his studious ways and temperate demeanour , though these at his age ...
... carry them across the country to be mothers of new races of landed gentry in other counties . Thomas was a youth of ambition and rejoiced the hearts of his parents by his studious ways and temperate demeanour , though these at his age ...
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... carry him away as his page . He smiled at the idea , thinking what a useless luxury his service would be to anyone who gave him employ . He passed the boy's room and pushed the door open . The lad was lying on his trestle bed , sobbing ...
... carry him away as his page . He smiled at the idea , thinking what a useless luxury his service would be to anyone who gave him employ . He passed the boy's room and pushed the door open . The lad was lying on his trestle bed , sobbing ...
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... carried off to their homes by their several guardians , and within a few days the Earl of Essex went abroad to finish his education , and his young Countess lived at home with her mother or stayed with her great - uncle Henry ...
... carried off to their homes by their several guardians , and within a few days the Earl of Essex went abroad to finish his education , and his young Countess lived at home with her mother or stayed with her great - uncle Henry ...
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... carry the youth to Master Rider's house in Charing Cross , ordering them to run for Dr. Mayerne , his own physician , to attend him . And though he sat out the rest of the tilting , his mind was not on the sport , for he was thinking of ...
... carry the youth to Master Rider's house in Charing Cross , ordering them to run for Dr. Mayerne , his own physician , to attend him . And though he sat out the rest of the tilting , his mind was not on the sport , for he was thinking of ...
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Abbot affair Archbishop Archbishop Abbot asked Attorney Bacon beautiful Cecil Chancellor Chartley Coke confession Countess of Essex Countess of Somerset Countess of Suffolk Court death doctor Earl of Essex Earl of Northampton Earl of Somerset evidence eyes father favour favourite fear Frances Howard Gervase Helwys girl grave guilty hand heard heart Henry Howard honour husband James jury King King's knew lady laughed letters Lidcote Lieutenant Lord Chief Justice Lord High Steward lover Majesty marriage masque master Mayerne mind Monson murder never Northampton House nullity Commission Overbury's peers physician play poor Prince Henry prisoner Queen Robert Carr Rochester royal seemed sent Serjeant servant Simon Forman Sir Gervase Sir Robert Sir Thomas Monson Sir Thomas Overbury stood story strange Suffolk tell things thought to-day told Tower trial truth Turner Villiers Weston whispered Whitehall wife Winwood woman words wretch writing young youth
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Էջ 235 - Curse not the king, no not in thy thought; and curse not the rich in thy bedchamber: for a bird of the air shall carry the voice, and that which hath wings shall tell the matter.
Էջ 161 - ... or truth, of human life — such a truth as might be formulated critically in an abstract and general proposition — which the dramatist contrives to convey concretely to his auditors through the particular medium of his story. Thus, the theme of Ghosts...
Էջ 290 - ... that you find the Commissioners have, you know not how, some secret assurance that in the end she will confess of him : but this must only be as from yourself...
Էջ 298 - Then when they had this poor gentleman in the Tower 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. Then must Franklin be purveyor of the poisons, and procure five, six,, seven several potions, to be sure to hit his complexion.
Էջ 240 - Since I saw you, I saw Mrs. Turner die. If detestation of painted pride, lust, malice, powdered hair, yellow bands, and the rest of the wardrobe of court vanities, — if deep sighs, tears, confessions, ejaculations of the soul, admonitions of all sorts of people to make God and an unspotted conscience always our friends, — if the protestation of faith and hope to be washed by the same Saviour and...
Էջ 208 - God's sake, let me," said the King, "shall I? shall I?" Then lolled about his neck. Then: "For God's sake, give thy lady this kiss for me.
Էջ 283 - ... you are to be drawn on hurdles to the place of execution, where you are to be hanged by the neck, but not until you are dead...
Էջ 290 - You shall therefore give him assurance in my name, that if he will yet before his trial confess clearly unto the Commissioners his guiltiness of this fact, I will not only perform what I promised by my last Messenger, both towards him and his wife, but I will enlarge it, according to the phrase of the civil law, quod gratiac sunt ampliandcC.
Էջ 310 - I assure myself you will not take circumstances for evidence, for if you should the conditions of a man's life were nothing. In the meantime you may see the excellence of the King's justice, which makes no distinction, putting me into your hands for a just and equal censure. For my part, I protest before God I was neither guilty of, nor privy to, any wrong that Overbury suffered in this kind.
Էջ 119 - Overbury for so slighting her, answered : ' My own legs are straight and strong enough to bear me up, but, in faith, I will be even with you for this...