History of England: From the Fall of Wolsey to the Death of Elizabeth, Volumen12J.W. Parker and Son, West Strand, 1870 |
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Página 487 - There was never anything pleased me better than the seeing the enemy flying with a southerly wind to the northwards. God grant you have a good eye to the Duke of Parma; for with the grace of God, if we live, I doubt it not but ere it be long so to handle the matter with the Duke of Sidonia as he shall wish himself at St. Mary Port among his orange trees.
Página 260 - I charge you carry this most just thought, that I cannot balance in any weight of my judgment the value that I prize you at, and suppose no treasure to countervail such a faith; and shall condemn myself in that fault, which yet I never committed, if I reward not such deserts.
Página 518 - And Pharaoh rose up in the night, he, and all his servants, and all the Egyptians; and there was a great cry in Egypt; for there was not a house where there was not one dead.
Página 245 - names and qualities of the six gentlemen which * are to accomplish the designment, for that it may ' be I shall be able upon knowledge of the parties to ' give you some further advice necessary to be followed ' therein ; and even so do I wish to be made acquainted ' with the names of all such principal persons, as also who
Página 335 - you should rather rejoice than weep that the end of my troubles is come. Tell my friends I die a true Catholic. Commend me to my son. Tell him I have done nothing to prejudice his kingdom of Scotland, and so, good Melville, farewell.
Página 338 - Queen whom she had endeavoured to murder. She prayed God to avert his wrath from England, that England which she had sent a last message to Philip to beseech him to invade. She forgave her enemies, whom she had invited Philip not to forget, and then, praying to the saints to intercede for her with Christ, and kissing the crucifix and crossing her own breast, ' Even as thy arms, oh Jesus,' she cried, ' were spread upon the cross, so receive me into thy mercy and forgive my sins.
Página 469 - I have purposely left ships exposed to ' tempt them to board; but they decline to do it, and ' there is no remedy, for they are swift and we are slow.
Página 559 - Vain as she was of her own sagacity, she never modified a course recommended to her by Burghley without injury both to the realm and to herself. She never chose an opposite course without plunging into embarrassments, from which his skill and Walsingham's were barely able to extricate her. The great results of her reign were the fruits of a policy which was not her own, and which she starved and mutilated when energy and completeness were needed.
Página 336 - ... and passing out attended by the earls, and leaning on the arm of an officer of the guard, she descended the great staircase to the hall. The news had spread far through the country. Thousands of people were collected outside the walls. About three hundred knights and gentlemen of the country had been admitted to witness the execution.
Página 93 - Let me go," she wrote to Elizabeth; "let me retire from this island to some solitude where I may prepare my soul to die. Grant this and I will sign away every right which either I or mine can claim.