 | John Stark (of Edinburgh.) - Scotland - 1805 - 452 pages
...approve of our tears as if they were shed for a person who had attained much nearer to pure virtue. No man, says Brantome, ever beheld her person without...sorrow. None of her women were suffered to come near her liead body, which was carried into a room adjoining the place Of execution, where it lay for some days... | |
 | William Henry Ireland - 1808 - 256 pages
...or admiration. Thus perished Mary, Queen of Scots, after a life of forty-four years and two months. No man, says Brantome, ever beheld her person without...admiration and love, or will read her history without sorrowELEGY ON THE DEATH or MARY, QUEEN OF SCOTS. THE balmy zephyrs o'er the woodland stray, And gently... | |
 | William Robertson - Europe - 1810 - 412 pages
...life she began to grow fat, and her long confinement, and the coldness of the houses in which she was imprisoned, brought on a rheumatism, which often deprived...and love, or will read her history without sorrow. LORD DARKLY. MART having remained above two years in a state of widowhood, her subjects became impatient... | |
 | James Kennedy (of Glasgow.) - 1810 - 424 pages
...grace. Her taste for music was just, and she both sung, and played upon the lute with uncommon skill. " No man," says Brantome, "ever beheld her person without...and love, or will read her history without sorrow." *„-- No. 4. ON DRUIDISM. THE appellation, Druid, seems to be connected with the term which denominates... | |
 | Nicolas Gouin Dufief - Commercial correspondence, Spanish - 1811 - 606 pages
...confinement, and the coldness of the houses in which she was imprisoned, brought on a rheumatism which deprived her of the use of her limbs. No man, says...and love, or will read her history without sorrow. Robert tos. Speech of Jtdhrrbal to the. Roman Senate, imfiloring thnr assistance against Jugurthu.... | |
 | Elegant extracts - 1812 - 316 pages
...life she began to grow fat, and her long confmement, and the coldness of the houses in which she was imprisoned, brought on a rheumatism, which often deprived...and love, or will read her history without sorrow. Robertson. CHARACTER OF JAMES I. THE principal thing which is made to serve for matter for king James's... | |
 | John Nichols - Authors, English - 1812 - 794 pages
...delicate, both as to shape and colour; her stature was of an height that rose to Ihe majestic. No man, say* Brantome, ever beheld her person without admiration and love ; or will read h«r history without sorrow." There is little to praise in this effort of Mr. Graham's pencil," who... | |
 | William Scott - Elocution - 1814 - 424 pages
...confinement, and the coldness of the houses in which she was imprisoned brought on a rheumatism, which deprived her of the use of her limbs. No man, says...and love, or will read her history without sorrow. IV. — Character of Queen Elizabeth. — HUME. THERE are few personages in history, who have beea... | |
 | William Scott - Elocution - 1817 - 416 pages
...confinement, and the coldness of the houses in which she was imprisoned, brought on a rheumatism, which deprived her of the use of her limbs. No man, says...Brantome, ever beheld her person without admiration and lore, or will read her history without sorrow. f IV.— Character of Queen Elizal>etfi.—-llvKE. ,... | |
 | Nicolas Gouin Dufief - English language - 1817 - 594 pages
...imprisoned, brought on a rheumatism which deprived her of the use of her limbs. No man, says Brantôme^ ever beheld her person without admiration and love, or will read her history without sorrow. Robertson. Speech of Adherbal to the Senate, imfiloring -their assistance against Jugitrl/iu. Father*... | |
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She danced, she walked, and rode with equal grace. Her taste for music was just, and she both sung and played upon the lute with uncommon skill. Towards the end of her life, long confinement, and the coldness of the houses in which she had been imprisoned,... 
