Robert Browning's Prose Life of StraffordPublist for The Browning Society by Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner & Company, 1892 - 319 pages |
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... honour to venture his people's prosperity for the recovery of the Palatinate . In 1637 , King Charles thought of going to war with Spain for that purpose , and asked Wentworth's opinion on the question . There can be little doubt that ...
... honour to venture his people's prosperity for the recovery of the Palatinate . In 1637 , King Charles thought of going to war with Spain for that purpose , and asked Wentworth's opinion on the question . There can be little doubt that ...
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... honour to serve his Majesty , I never had anything in my heart but what tended to the joint individual prosperity of King and people . " 2 66 In his view the liberties of the people and the preroga- tive of the Crown were perfectly ...
... honour to serve his Majesty , I never had anything in my heart but what tended to the joint individual prosperity of King and people . " 2 66 In his view the liberties of the people and the preroga- tive of the Crown were perfectly ...
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... honour of your trust , " he told the Irish Parliament , explaining at the same time that it was the refusal to trust the king which had caused " the misfortunes these meetings have run of late years in England . " 2 This trust ...
... honour of your trust , " he told the Irish Parliament , explaining at the same time that it was the refusal to trust the king which had caused " the misfortunes these meetings have run of late years in England . " 2 This trust ...
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... honours in respect of justice . " " Dives hath no advan tage of Lazarus , " was the news which reached Sir John Bingley from his friends in Ireland . " Whilst I was in Ireland , " says a third witness , " the poor cried , never so good ...
... honours in respect of justice . " " Dives hath no advan tage of Lazarus , " was the news which reached Sir John Bingley from his friends in Ireland . " Whilst I was in Ireland , " says a third witness , " the poor cried , never so good ...
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... honoured with the Order of the Garter ( Sept. 24 ) . Charles said openly that he trusted him more than all his Council , and the Queen , so long hostile , told him that she esteemed him the most capable and faithful servant her husband ...
... honoured with the Order of the Garter ( Sept. 24 ) . Charles said openly that he trusted him more than all his Council , and the Queen , so long hostile , told him that she esteemed him the most capable and faithful servant her husband ...
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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.