Lives of the Queens of England, from the Norman Conquest, Volume 6

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Página 397 - Remember, O Lord, what is come upon us: consider and behold our reproach. Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens.
Página 572 - In the multitude of the sorrows that I had in my heart : thy comforts have refreshed my soul.
Página 147 - For her the weeping heavens become serene; For her the ground is clad in cheerful green: For her the nightingales are taught to sing, And Nature has for her delay'd the spring.
Página 170 - His seed also will I make to endure for ever, And his throne as the days of heaven.
Página 147 - WHEN factious rage to cruel exile drove The queen of beauty, and the court of love, The Muses droop'd, with their forsaken arts, And the sad Cupids broke their useless darts : Our fruitful plains to wilds and deserts turn'd, Like Eden's face, when banish'd man it mourn'd.
Página 289 - I saw the King take barge to Gravesend at twelve o'clock — a sad sight! The Prince comes to St. James's, and fills Whitehall with Dutch guards.
Página 190 - 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 237 - His fader and moder have sat to me about thirty-six time a-piece, and I know every line and bit in their faces. I could paint king James just now by memory. I say the child is so like both, that there is not a feature in his face but what belongs either to father or...
Página 643 - I shall leave them no room 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 been a series of misfortunes, and I am prepared — if it so please God — to suffer the threats of my enemies and yours.
Página 445 - It," pursues Burnet, in allusion to the bill for attainting the son of James II., " was sent up to the lords, and it passed in that house with an addition of an attainder of the queen, who acted as queen-regent for him. This was much opposed, for no evidence could be brought to prove that allegation; yet the thing was so notorious that it passed, and was sent down again to the commons. It was objected to there, as not regular, since but one precedent, in king Henry VIII. 's time, was brought for...

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