 | 1848 - 594 էջ
...had any one to pray by her,' Walpole addresses the Princess Emily in these words : ' " Pray, Madame, let this farce be ' " played ; the Archbishop will...do the Queen no ' " hurt, no more than any good." ' The Primate came, at such a summons, to the bedside of the dying sovereign. He prayed with her, and... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1848 - 602 էջ
...prudently added, by way of stimulating the Princes« Emily, 'Pray, madam, let this farce be played : ihe Archbishop will act it very well. You may bid him be as short as you will. Jt will do the Queen no hurt, no more than any good ; and it will satisfy all the wise and good fools,... | |
 | Francis Lancelott - 1858 - 552 էջ
...should be sent for. " This farce must be played, Madam," he observed to the Princess Amelia, " and the archbishop will act it very well. You may bid...hurt, no more than any good ; and it will satisfy all * Lord Hervey, vol. ii. p. 516. 948 940 the wise and good fools who will call us all atheists if we... | |
 | Francis Lancelott - 1858 - 604 էջ
...Canterbury, should be sent for. "This farce must be played, Madam," he observed to the Prineess Amelia, " and the archbishop will act it very well. You may bid him be as short as you will. It will do the Qucen no hurt, no more than any good ; and it will satisfy all • Lord Hervey, vol. ii. p. 516. Hie... | |
 | George Augustus Sala, Edmund Yates - 1878 - 592 էջ
...divine should be summoned. " Pray, madam," said he to the Princess Emily, in his usual coarse way, " let this farce be played : the archbishop will act...satisfy all the wise and good fools, who will call us Atheists if we don't pretend to be as great fools as they are."' Thus courteously invited, Dr. Potter,... | |
 | Katherine Thomson - 1860 - 376 էջ
...at once of the man, the times, and the court : — ' Pray, madam,' he said to the Princess Emily, ' let this farce be played ; the archbishop will act...satisfy all the wise and good fools who will call us atheists if we don't pretend to be as great fools as they are.' Unhappily, Lord Hervey, who relates... | |
 | 1860 - 860 էջ
...Potter's coming to pray •with the dying Queen, her mother. ' Pray, Madam,' said the Prime Minister, 'let this farce be played. The Archbishop will act...as you will. It will do the Queen no hurt, no more tli-: 11 any good; and it will satisfy all the wise and good fools, who will call us all atheists if... | |
 | Mrs. A. T. Thomson, Philip Wharton - 1861 - 504 էջ
...opinion was couched in the following terms, characteristic at once of the man, the times, and the court : may bid him be as short as you will : it will do the...satisfy all the wise and good fools who will call us atheists if we don't pretend to be as great fools as they are." Unhappily, Lord Hervey, who relates... | |
 | Grace Wharton, Philip Wharton - 1861 - 522 էջ
...characteristic at once of the man, the times, and the court: " Pray, madam," he said to the Princess Emily, " let this farce be played; the archbishop will act it very well. You Unhappily, Lord Hervey, who relates this anecdote, was himself an unbeliever; yet the scoffing tone... | |
 | Mrs. A. T. Thomson, Philip Wharton - 1867 - 574 էջ
...at once of the man, the times, and the court : — ' Pray, madam,' he said to the Princess Emily, ' let this farce be played ; the archbishop will act...satisfy all the wise and good fools, who will call us atheists if we don't pretend to be as great fools as they are.' Unhappily, Lord Hervey, who relates... | |
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let this farce be played ; the archbishop will act it very well. You may bid him be as short as you will : it will do the queen no hurt, no more than any good ; and it will satisfy all the wise and good fools who will call us atheists if we don't pretend... 
