The Protestant: A Tale of the Reign of Queen Mary |
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Alice answered attorney beseech Bishop of Dover bless Bonner Canterbury Castle Cardinal Pole catchpole chamber child Church continued countenance Cranmer cried Sir cruel dare daughter dear death door Edward Wilford England exclaimed Arabella exclaimed Wilford eyes faith father fear feelings Friar John Gammer Plaise give hand Harpsfield head hear heart Heaven heresy heretic holy hope innocent inquired instantly looked manner Master Edward Master Wilford mercy mind Mistress Deborah Mistress Rose mother never obeyed old Abel Allen old Gammer once Owen Wilford passed person Pincher poor prison Queen replied Arabella replied Cluny replied Sir Richard replied Wilford sake Samuel Collins sight Sir Francis Morgan Sir John Baker Sir Richard Southwell Sir Thomas Wyatt speak stake stood suffer Suffragan Suffragan Bishop sure tears tell thing thought Tommy truth turned unhappy Wellminster whilst wife woman words wretch young
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Page 18 - And they went to bury her : but they found no more of her than the skull, and the feet, and the palms of her hands.
Page 73 - Brethren, if any of you do err from the truth, and one convert him. Let him know, that he which converteth a sinner from the error of his ways, shall save a soul from death, and shall hide a multitude of sins...
Page 207 - Bishop approached, every one rose up ; nor did they presume to move from the attitude of silent respect in which they stood till the delegate of the Pope's delegate had taken his seat. Harpsfield and Friar John also took their seats on each side of the throne. The prisoner, it was known, was ready, and held...
Page 29 - ... Pincher will find a bed somewhere. We are both old servants of the family, and we will neither of us stay behind to serve a Spanish friar, nor desert our masters in their distress ; and Pincher, I am sure, is no friend to the Pope, or the friars, but as faithful a dog as ever wagged a tail." Pincher seemed conscious of the eulogium Abel bestowed upon him, for he looked up in his master's face, and wagged his tail, as if he assented to the proposition. Edward Wilford now summoned up all his fortitude,...
Page 237 - ... wish her joy on her happiness. Whoever has received in the course of their lives the congratulations of joy when their heart has been sinking under the dead burthen of secret sorrow, may possibly conceive in what manner such congratulations fall upon the ear, whilst the soul sickens at the thought. It seemed as if this compliment struck, like the steel upon the flint, on the mind of Arabella, and aroused her, by a single spark, from the torpor of her feelings; for she suddenly raised her hands,...
Page 252 - I will hear no more of this," cried Thornton; "give me the brand, I will fire the fagots myself." He advanced to do so, with the utmost fury, although his cheek was livid, and every nerve in the body of the strong bad man shook with the terror of his mind. He raised the torch, he uttered horrid imprecations on the heretic who, even at the stake itself, could thus agonise his conscience, when suddenly he staggered, and fell backwards on the ground. Gammer Plaise saw him fall, and exclaimed aloud,...
Page 84 - T, which some expound his encountering with people, men fo'r their shape and sex, but beasts for their cruel minds and manners : in the same sense we may say, that lion, tiger, wolf, bear, yea, a whole forest of wild beasts, met in Bonner...
Page 254 - God save Queen Elizabeth!" The cry was taken up by the multitude ; for in a moment all men understood that Mary was dead, and that the Highsheriff for Kent had now hastened to proclaim her successor; and "God save Queen Elizabeth!" was shouted, echoed, and shouted again and again, by a thousand and a thousand tongues. Sir Richard Southwell leaped from his horse, passed within the line of halberts, and tearing asunder, with the help of his sword, the staple that confined the chain to the stake, he...
Page 5 - ... Take away the woman from that man's embrace; take her off, this moment; or I shall think myself a participator in this man's shameless sin, if I suffer the kiss of a heretic in my sight!" Thornton was obeyed. Wilford remained silent for a moment; but he looked first upon Alice, and then upon Rose, with an expression the most heart-rending. At length he bent his head, and put both his hands over his eyes, as if he would shut out the sight of what was nearest and dearest to him on earth in the...