 | Early English newspapers - 1818 - 724 pages
...spirit to put it from her with H good dash. As she set her foot on the ill-omened stairs, she said, ' Here landeth as true a subject, being a prisoner, as ever landed at these stairs ! and before thee, O God! I speak it, having no other friends but tbee alone.' On seeing... | |
 | Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - 1819 - 648 pages
...spirit to put it from her with " a good dash." As she set her foot on the ill-omened stairs, she said, " Here landeth as true a subject, being a prisoner, as ever landed at these stairs ; and before thee, O God ! I speak it, having no other friends but Thee alone.'1 '... | |
 | Lucy Aikin - Courts and courtiers - 1821 - 434 pages
...spirit to put it from her " with a good dash." As she set her foot on the ill-omened stairs, she said, " Here landeth as true a subject, being a prisoner, as ever landed at these stairs ; and before thee, O God ! 1 speak it, having no other friends but thee alone." On... | |
 | Picture gallery - 1824 - 234 pages
...it back with her hand, with a good dash, refused.' " Setting her foot upon the stairs, she said : ' Here landeth as true a subject, being a prisoner, as ever landed at these stairs ; and before thee, O God ! do I speak it, having none other friends but thee alone.'... | |
 | Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1829 - 606 pages
...the times. It was under that gate Queen Elizabeth entered a prisoner, and while entering exclaimed, " Here landeth as true a subject, being a prisoner, as ever landed on these stairs, and before God I speak it." One of the most painfully interesting sights in the fortress is the room in what is... | |
 | Edward Wedlake Brayley - London (England) - 1829 - 456 pages
...her foot upon the steps, she exclaimed, with that spirit and dignity which ennobled her character, " Here landeth as true a subject, being a prisoner, as ever landed at these stairs; -and before thee, O God, I speak it." VTyatt's insurrection was followed by a dreadful... | |
 | John Bayley - London - 1830 - 664 pages
...and another lord ; ' and being reluctantly brought to enter that fortress at the traitor's-gate, she said, with her usual dignity and spirit, as she set...foot on those dreaded steps, Here landeth as true a subjeet, being a prisoner, as ever landed at -these stairs, and before thee, O God, I speak it. The... | |
 | 1830 - 550 pages
...foot upon the steps, she exclaimed, with that spirit and dignity which ennobled her character — " Here landeth as true a subject, being a prisoner, as ever landed at these stairs ; and before thee, О God, I speak it." Elizabeth is said to have been confined in... | |
 | Grant Thorburn - Great Britain - 1834 - 198 pages
...It was under that gate, that Queen Elizabeth entered a prisoner ; and while entering,' exclaimed, " here landeth as true a subject, being a prisoner, as ever landed on these stairs, and before God I speak it." One of the most painfully interesting sights in the fortress, is the room that is... | |
 | Grant Thorburn - Great Britain - 1834 - 196 pages
...It was under that gate, that Queen Elizabeth entered a prisoner ; and while entering, exclaimed, " here landeth as true a subject, being a prisoner, as ever landed on these stairs, and before God I speak it." One of the most painfully interesting sights in the fortress, is the room that is... | |
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Here landeth as true a subject, being a prisoner, as ever landed at these stairs ; and before Thee, O God, I speak it. 
