The History of the Life and Times of Cardinal Wolsey: Prime Minister to King Henry VIII ...J. Purser, 1742 |
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32 ページ - O could I flow like thee, and make thy stream My great example, as it is my theme! Though deep, yet clear, though gentle, yet not dull, Strong without rage, without o'er-flowing full.
130 ページ - Let him that is no coward, nor no flatterer, But dare maintain the party of the truth, Pluck a red rofe from off this thorn with me.
32 ページ - Brings home to us, and makes both Indies ours : Finds wealth where 'tis, bestows it where it wants, Cities in deserts, woods in cities plants ; So that to us no thing, no place is strange, While his fair bosom is the world's exchange.
32 ページ - Thames ! the most loved of all the Ocean's sons, By his old sire, to his embraces runs, Hasting to pay his tribute to the sea, Like mortal life to meet eternity. Though with those streams he no resemblance hold, Whose foam is amber and their gravel gold, His genuine and less guilty wealth t' explore, Search not his bottom, but survey his shore, O'er which he kindly spreads his spacious wing, And hatches plenty for th...
46 ページ - Trent on horseback, but could not recover the farther side, by reason of the steepness of the bank, and so was drowned in the river. But another report leaves him not there, but that he lived long after in a cave or vault. The number that was slain in the field, was of the enemies...
48 ページ - He was my crowned king, and if the parliamentary authority of England set the crown upon a stock, I will fight for that stock ; and as I fought then for him, I will fight for you, when you are established by the said authority.
295 ページ - King may have most profit, and the subject less vexation. Raking for old debts the number of informations, projects upon concealments, I could not find (in the eleven years experience I had in this court) ever to advance the crown ; but such proceedings have, for the most part, delivered up the King's good subjects into the hands of the worst of men, clerks of the court, cnstom-kouse officers, and excisemen.
273 ページ - It may please your grace, that were not for " mine ease: they are most of them my retainers, that " are come to do me service at such a time as this, and
4 ページ - These be the wonderful works of God's Providence. And I would wish, that all men in authority would fear God, in all ages, in the time of their triumph and greatness, considering that advancement and authority are not permanent, but many times slide and vanish suddenly away...
3 ページ - Wolsey was an honest, poor man's sonne — who, being but a child, was very apt to learne ; wherefore by means of his parents and other his good friends he was maintained at the university of Oxford, where in a short time he prospered so well, that in a small time, (as he told me with his owne mouth,) he was made bachelour of arts, when he was but fifteen years of age, and was most commonly called the boy batchelour.