Lives of the Queens of England, from the Norman Conquest: Now First Published from Official Records & Other Authentic Documents, Private as Well as Public, Volume 6

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H. Colburn, 1854
 

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Página 393 - Remember, O Lord, what is come upon us: consider and behold our reproach. Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens.
Página 188 - Were all observed, as well as heavenly face. With such a peerless majesty she stands, As in that day she took the crown from sacred hands: Before a train of heroines was seen, 140 In beauty foremost, as in rank, the Queen...
Página 568 - In the multitude of the sorrows that I had in my heart : thy comforts have refreshed my soul.
Página 639 - I shall leave them no reason for complaint, that I have not done the utmost they could expect from me. Let those who forget their duty, and are negligent of their own good, be answerable for the worst that may happen. For me it will be no new thing if I am unfortunate. My whole life, even from my cradle, has shown a constant series of misfortunes ; and I am prepared — if so it please God — to suffer the threats of my enemies and yours.
Página 427 - God to do so too; that he gave you his last blessing, and prayed to God to convert your heart, and confirm you in the resolution of repairing to his son, the wrongs done to himself; to which I shall only add, that I join my prayers to his, herein, with all my heart, and that I shall make it my business to inspire into the young man who is left to my care, the sentiments of his father, for better no man can have.
Página 188 - Our phoenix queen was portrayed too so bright, Beauty alone could beauty take so right : Her dress, her shape, her matchless grace, Were all observed, as well as heavenly face. With such a peerless majesty she stands, As in that day she took the crown from sacred hands ; Before a train of heroines was seen, In beauty foremost, as in rank the queen.
Página 222 - Assures our birthrights, and assumes his own. Born in broad day-light, that the ungrateful rout May find no room for a remaining doubt ;t Truth, which itself is light, does darkness shun, And the true eaglet safely dares the sun.
Página 386 - The death of the young duke of Gloucester, the only surviving child of the princess Anne of Denmark, which occurred August 12, 1700, appeared to remove a formidable rival from the path of the son of Mary Beatrice. The news of that event was known at St. Germains two or three days before it was officially announced to the English ambassador, who was first apprised of it by one of his spies in the exiled court. This seems a confirmation of the assertion of Lamberty, that the princess Anne sent an express...
Página 347 - He asked who they were? and was surprised to find they were the same men with whom, in garbs better suited to their rank, he had the day before conversed at his levee.
Página 240 - The King's Birthday. No guns from the Tower as usual. The sun eclipsed at its rising. This day signal for the victory of William the Conqueror against Harold, near Battel, in Sussex. The wind, which had been hitherto west, was east all this day. Wonderful expectation of the Dutch fleet. Public prayers ordered to be read in the churches against invasion.

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