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... ment . When the princess Mary was sent to France to be married to Louis the Twelfth , Lord Berners occupied a chief place in her train , and not long after was appointed to the important post of governor of Calais . It has been remarked ...
... ment . When the princess Mary was sent to France to be married to Louis the Twelfth , Lord Berners occupied a chief place in her train , and not long after was appointed to the important post of governor of Calais . It has been remarked ...
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... ment of the ensuing year , bearing a part in the coronation of his cousin , Anne Boleyn . It is not a little striking , that one of the next notices of his life we meet with , is that he sat , in 1536 , as earl - marshal , in his ...
... ment of the ensuing year , bearing a part in the coronation of his cousin , Anne Boleyn . It is not a little striking , that one of the next notices of his life we meet with , is that he sat , in 1536 , as earl - marshal , in his ...
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... ment sent against France , under the command of Sir John Wallop , and by his conduct gained so much reputation , that , in 1544 , he was appointed marshal of the army at the head of which Henry invaded France in person . While the king ...
... ment sent against France , under the command of Sir John Wallop , and by his conduct gained so much reputation , that , in 1544 , he was appointed marshal of the army at the head of which Henry invaded France in person . While the king ...
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... ment , and such was the pleasure she took in his humorous conversa- tion , that even in her last illness he frequently was admitted to her chamber . Some specimens of his wit have been preserved , and the following is given by Puttenham ...
... ment , and such was the pleasure she took in his humorous conversa- tion , that even in her last illness he frequently was admitted to her chamber . Some specimens of his wit have been preserved , and the following is given by Puttenham ...
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... ment of the English language ; for it was well adapted to answer the author's intention , expressed in a letter to Bishop Gardiner , of intro- ducing in English prose a more natural , easy , and truly English diction , than was then in ...
... ment of the English language ; for it was well adapted to answer the author's intention , expressed in a letter to Bishop Gardiner , of intro- ducing in English prose a more natural , easy , and truly English diction , than was then in ...
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Page 297 - And yet. on the other hand, unless wariness be used, as good almost kill a man as kill a good book. Who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image; but he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were, in the eye. Many a man lives a burden to the earth; but a good book is the precious lifeblood of a master-spirit embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life.
Page 298 - Methinks I see in my mind a noble and puissant nation rousing herself like a strong man after sleep, and shaking her invincible locks: methinks I see her as an eagle mewing her mighty youth, and kindling her undazzled eyes at the full mid-day beam...
Page 298 - If it be desired to know the immediate cause of all this free writing and free speaking, there cannot be assigned a truer than your own mild and free and humane government. It is the liberty, Lords and Commons, which your own valorous and happy counsels have purchased us, liberty which is the nurse of all great wits; this is that which hath rarefied and enlightened our spirits like the influence of heaven; this is that which hath enfranchised, enlarged and lifted up our apprehensions degrees above...
Page 297 - ... the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them. I know they are as lively, and as vigorously productive as those fabulous dragon's teeth; and being sown up and down, may chance to spring up armed men.
Page 290 - ... sitting by their studious lamps, musing, searching, revolving new notions and ideas wherewith to present, as with their homage and their fealty, the approaching reformation ! others as fast reading, trying all things, assenting to the force of reason and convincement...
Page 291 - The adversary again applauds, and waits the hour ; when they have branched themselves out, saith he, small enough into parties and partitions, then will be our time. Fool ! he sees not the firm root, out of which we all grow, though into branches ; nor will beware until he see our small divided maniples cutting through at every angle of his ill-united and unwieldy brigade.
Page 449 - Scotland, in doctrine, worship, discipline, and government, against our common enemies; the reformation of religion in the kingdoms of England and Ireland, in doctrine, worship, discipline, and government, according to the Word of God, and the example of the best reformed churches...
Page 414 - Let him for succour sue from place to place, Torn from his subjects, and his son's embrace. First let him see his friends in battle slain, And their untimely fate lament in vain ; And when at length the cruel war shall cease, On hard conditions may he buy his peace ; Nor let him then enjoy supreme command, But fall untimely by some hostile hand, And lie unburied on the barren sand.
Page 267 - O, it strikes, it strikes! Now, body, turn to air, Or Lucifer will bear thee quick to hell. (Thunder and lightning. O soul, be changed into little water-drops, And fall into the ocean- — ne'er be found.
Page 413 - Peace ; and would passionately profess, " that the very agony of the war, and the view of the calamities and desolation the kingdom did and must endure, took his sleep from him, and would shortly break his heart.