 A King, whose character may be best described by saying that he was despotism itself personified, unprincipled ministers, a rapacious aristocracy, a servile Parliament, such were the instruments by which England was delivered from the yoke of Rome. The...  Miriam Sedley; or, The tares and the wheat - Էջ 304baroness Rosina Doyle Bulwer- Lytton - 1851Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - Այս գրքի մասին
 | 1828 - 722 էջ
...servile Parliament, — such were the instruments by which England was delivered from the yoke of Rome. The work which had been begun by Henry, the murderer...completed by Elizabeth, the murderer of her guest. Sprung from brutal passion, — -nurtured by selfish policy, — the Reformation in England displayed... | |
 | John Fletcher - 1829 - 168 էջ
...servile parliament. Such were the instruments by which England was delivered from the yoke of Rome. The work, which had been begun by Henry, the murderer...completed by Elizabeth, the murderer of her guest. Sprung from brutal passion ; nurtured by selfish policy, — the Reformation in England displayed little... | |
 | Thomas Moore - 1833 - 370 էջ
...servile parliament. Such were the instruments by which England was delivered from the yoke of Rome. The work which had been begun by Henry, the murderer...completed by Elizabeth, the murderer of her guest." — Edinburyh Review. 265 ately more impulse and opportunity to such vices; and, while in Henry VIII.... | |
 | 1835 - 916 էջ
...servile Parliament, — such were the instruments by which England was delivered from the yoke of Rome. The work which had been begun by Henry, the murderer...Somerset, the murderer of his brother, and completed by Elisabeth, the murderer of her guest. Sprung from brutal passion, — nurtured by selfish policy, —... | |
 | Maurice Cross - 1835 - 416 էջ
...servile Parliament, — such were the instruments by which England was delivered from the yoke of Rome. The work which had been begun by Henry, the murderer...wives, was continued by Somerset, the murderer of his hrother, and completed I by Elisabeth, the murderer of her guest. Sprung from brutal passion, — nurtured... | |
 | Maurice Cross - 1835 - 920 էջ
...by which England was delivered from the yoke, of Borne. The work which had been begun by Henry, HIP murderer of his wives, was continued by Somerset, the murderer of his brother, and completed by Elisabeth, the murderer of her guest. Sprung from brutal passion, — nurtured by selfish policy, —... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1840 - 464 էջ
...servile Parliament, — such were the instruments by which England was delivered from the yoke of Eome. The work which had been begun by Henry, the murderer...completed by Elizabeth, the murderer of her guest. Sprung from brutal passion, nurtured by selfish policy, the Reformation in England displayed little... | |
 | Thomas Smyth - 1843 - 348 էջ
...servile Parliament j such were the instruments by which England was delivered from the yoke of Rome. The work, which had been begun by Henry, the murderer...brother, and completed by Elizabeth, the murderer of her gueat. Sprung from brutal passion, nurtured by selfish policy,' &c, { Edinb. Rev. ibid, p. 52. land... | |
 | 1843 - 784 էջ
...instruments by which England was delivered from the yoke of Rome. The work, which had been begun by Henrv, the murderer of his wives, was continued by Somerset,...completed by Elizabeth, the murderer of her guest. "If we consider Cranmer merely as a statesman, he will not appear a much worse man than Wolsey, Gardiner,... | |
 | Samuel Smiles - 1844 - 524 էջ
...policy, and was consummated in bloodshed and horrid crime. " The work," observes a contemporary, " which had been begun by Henry, the murderer of his...completed by Elizabeth, the murderer of her 'guest." Such was the " Reformation," and such were its instruments ; and the consequences which flowed from... | |
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