 | Charles MacFarlane - Great Britain - 1845 - 482 pages
...triumphed over many a formidable rival. In his last moments he said to Sir Walter Cope, " Ease and pleasure quake to hear of death ; but my life, full of cares and miseries, desireth to be dissolved." His death was certainly not less welcome to the great mass of the nation ; but, in the worse that followed,... | |
 | Bernard Burke - England - 1848 - 268 pages
...human greatness ! In his last illness, he was heard to say to Sir Walter Cope, " Ease and pleasure quake to hear of death ; but my life, full of cares and miseries, desireth to be dissolved." He had some years previously (1603) addressed a letter to Sir James Harrington, the poet, in pretty... | |
 | John Heneage Jesse - Great Britain - 1855 - 510 pages
...two successive monarchs. To Sir "Walter Cope he remarked, in his last illness : " Ease and pleasure quake to hear of death ; but my life, full of cares and miseries, desireth to be dissolved." * Wilson, p. ii. The story is somewhat differently related by Bishop Goodman, in his Memoirs: — "The... | |
 | Charles MacFarlane - 1855 - 474 pages
...triumphed over many a formidable rival. In his last moments he said to Sir Walter Cope, " Ease and pleasure quake to hear of death ; but my life, full of cares and miseries, desireth to be dissolved." His death was certainly not less welcome to the great mass of the nation ; but, in the worse that followed,... | |
 | Charles MacFarlane - Great Britain - 1855 - 474 pages
...triumphed over many a formidable rival. In his last moments he said to Sir Walter Cope, " Ease and pleasure quake to hear of death; but my life, full of cares and miseries, desireth to be dissolved." His death was certainly not less welcome to the great mass of the nation; but, in the worse that followed,... | |
 | English literature - 1856 - 668 pages
...speak for the major part of them in the letter in which he poured out his feelings to a friend in 1G04, when he was acknowledged to be the ablest, as he appeared...miseries, desireth to be dissolved.' The downfall nom power, which Cecil escaped, is the more usual fate of ministers ; and though the tenure of kings... | |
 | M. A. Thomson - 1856 - 318 pages
...receive the last awful summons from a weary existence. " Ease and pleasure," said the dying minister, " quake to hear of death ; but my life, full of cares and miseries, deeireth to be dissolved. ||" In his latter moments, retaining all the collectedness and tenacity of... | |
 | American literature - 1857 - 602 pages
...dignity while they are oppressed by its troubles. In every stage as Lord Bacon found, the disiress predominates — the upward course toilsome, the standing-place...from power, which Cecil escaped, is the more usual fete of ministers ; and though the tenure of kings is in theory permament, and their overthrow as much... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1857 - 588 pages
...dignity while they are oppressed by its troubles. In every stage as Lord Bacon found, the disiress predominates — the upward course toilsome, the standing-place...of death ; but my life, full of cares and miseries, dcsireth to be dissolved." The downfall from power, which Cecil escaped. is the more usual fate of... | |
 | Francis Lister Hawks - North Carolina - 1857 - 274 pages
...current of justice. Lif&had become to him a weary load. "Ease and ple'asure," said the dying man, " quake to hear of death ; but my life, full of cares and miseries, desireth to be dissolved." Well might he say " full of cares and miseries," and not the least among them was the misery of remorse.... | |
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Give heed to one that hath sorrowed in the bright lustre of a court and gone heavily over the best seeming fair ground. 
