Robert Browning's Prose Life of StraffordPublist for The Browning Society by Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner & Company, 1892 - 319 pages |
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... answer his accusers , " I have loved England too . " It seems as if the play were written to supplement and correct the biography . Each contains a part of the truth . To judge Strafford fairly and to represent him truly , we have to ...
... answer his accusers , " I have loved England too . " It seems as if the play were written to supplement and correct the biography . Each contains a part of the truth . To judge Strafford fairly and to represent him truly , we have to ...
Page xix
... answer then guided his conduct now . " The first consideration ariseth , whether this war tends in any sort to the wealth or safety of the crown of England , or not rather to the decay of trade , and losing the greatest entrance to the ...
... answer then guided his conduct now . " The first consideration ariseth , whether this war tends in any sort to the wealth or safety of the crown of England , or not rather to the decay of trade , and losing the greatest entrance to the ...
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... answered Strafford.2 Still in the great Council of the Peers he stubbornly resisted the demands of the Scots , and opposed every concession made to them . Almost alone in his opposition , he was obliged to submit to a truce on terms ...
... answered Strafford.2 Still in the great Council of the Peers he stubbornly resisted the demands of the Scots , and opposed every concession made to them . Almost alone in his opposition , he was obliged to submit to a truce on terms ...
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... answers , " I have loved England too . " The poet was nearer to the truth than the biographer , but to Englishmen in general Strafford was simply the perfect instrument of tyranny drawn in Browning's biography . No contemporary ...
... answers , " I have loved England too . " The poet was nearer to the truth than the biographer , but to Englishmen in general Strafford was simply the perfect instrument of tyranny drawn in Browning's biography . No contemporary ...
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... answer to a speech from Glyn , Strafford said " That it did strike him to the heart to be attacked of such a wicked crime by such honourable persons , yea that it wounded him deeper in regard that such persons who were the companions of ...
... answer to a speech from Glyn , Strafford said " That it did strike him to the heart to be attacked of such a wicked crime by such honourable persons , yea that it wounded him deeper in regard that such persons who were the companions of ...
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Robert Browning's Prose Life of Strafford (1892) Robert Browning,F. J. Furnivall,C. H. Firth No preview available - 2009 |
Robert Browning's Prose Life of Strafford (1892) Robert Browning,F. J. Furnivall,C. H. Firth No preview available - 2009 |
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Page 166 - Cheapside, and had the remainder of his sentence executed upon him, by cutting off the other ear, slitting the other side of his nose, and branding the other cheek*.
Page 240 - Upon the eve of his elevation to the peerage, they had casually met at Greenwich, when, after a short conversation on public affairs, they separated with these memorable words, addressed by Pym to Wentworth. " You are going to leave us, but I will never leave you, while your head is upon your shoulders...
Page 252 - I cannot satisfy myself in honour or conscience without assuring you (now in the midst of your troubles), that upon the word of a king you shall not suffer in life, honour or fortune. This is but justice, and therefore a very mean reward from a master to so faithful and able a servant as you have showed yourself to be; yet it is as much as I conceive the present times will permit, though none shall hinder me from being Your constant, faithful friend, Charles R.
Page liii - Bill : and by this means to remove (praised be God) I cannot say this accursed (but I confess) this unfortunate thing, forth of the way towards that blessed agreement which God, I trust, shall ever establish between you and your subjects.
Page 272 - Put not your trust in princes, nor in the sons of men, for in them there is no salvation."*** He was soon able, however, to collect his courage; and he prepared himself to suffer the fatal sentence.
Page 248 - That, having tried the affections of his people, he was loose and absolved from all rules of government, and was to do every thing that power would admit...
Page 241 - The soul's dark cottage, battered and decayed, Lets in new light through chinks that Time has made: Stronger by weakness, wiser men become As they draw near to their eternal home. Leaving the old, both worlds at once they view That stand upon the threshold of the new.
Page 277 - I thank God I am no more afraid of death, nor daunted with any discouragements arising from my fears, but do as cheerfully put off my doublet at this time as ever I did when I went to bed.
Page 148 - I desire to be heard in," he added, " and do hope that for Christian charity's sake I shall be believed. I was so far from being against parliaments, that I did always think parliaments in England to be the happy constitution of the kingdom and nation, and the best means, under God, to make the King and his people happy.
Page 254 - ... inconvenience to yourselves. And though my words were not so advised and discreet, or so well weighed as they ought to have been, yet I trust your Lordships are too honorable and just to lay them to my charge as High Treason. Opinions may make a heretic, but that they make a traitor I have never heard till now.