 | William Chambers - Hertfordshire (England) - 1873 - 88 pages
...business, the Earl, in his last illness, 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 died 1612. As regards Hatfield, it was not until the accession of James I. that the Cecils were... | |
 | Janet Gordon Hardy - 1876 - 256 pages
...last with power, he could say to one of his most favoured and intimate servants, ' Ease and pleasure quake to hear of death ; but my life, full of cares and miseries, desireth to be dissolved.' With him died his hatreds, and Raleigh, in the continued friendship of the Prince of Wales, fondly... | |
 | Last words - Last words - 1876 - 140 pages
...my heart is fixed where true joy is to be found !" Earl of Salisbury. AD 1612. " Ease and pleasure quake to hear of death ; but my life, full of cares and miseries, desireth to be dissolved !" Salmatius. AD 1653. One of the most erudite scholars of his time. " Oh, I have lost a world of time... | |
 | Charles MacFarlane - 1876 - 928 pages
...formidable rival. In bis last moments he said to Sir Walter Cope, " Ease and pleasure quake to bear 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,... | |
 | Edward Walford - Great Britain Biography - 1877 - 338 pages
...gaining his coronet. 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 addressed a letter to Sir James Harrington, the poet, in pretty much the... | |
 | Charles Kittredge True - 1877 - 290 pages
...death as the great release from care and trouble. "Ease and pleasure quake to hear of death," he said; "but my life, full of cares and miseries, desireth to be dissolved." His last hours were employed in devotion, and such was his expression of hope and trust in the Redeemer... | |
 | English history - 1881 - 888 pages
...minister should have uttered the words he is said to have spoken at this time. " Ease and pleasure quake to hear of death ; but my life, full of cares and miseries, desireth to be dissolved." He died, worn out and wretched, at Marlborough, May 24, 1612. Before his death the unhappy Arabella... | |
 | Charles Eyre Bradshaw Bowles - Divorce settlements - 1889 - 44 pages
...man, if one may judge by his words in his last illness to Sir Walter Cope : — " Ease and pleasure quake to hear of death, but my life full of cares and miseries desireth to be dissolved" (Burke' s ' Peerage '). A letter to Sir James Harrington the Poet, in 1603, when he was almost in the... | |
 | George Newnes, Herbert Greenhough Smith - England - 1891 - 690 pages
...of a man being killed by over-work. " Ease and pleasure," he sighed, while yet he was under fifty, " quake to hear of death ; but my life, full of cares and miseries, desireth to be dissolved." The site of Burleigh House is kept in memory, as those of so many other of the vanished palaces of the... | |
 | 1893 - 1054 pages
...head and his heart over "the Virgin Queen " ; Burleigh, sighing, while he was yet under fifty, " I quake to hear of death ; but my life, full of cares and miseries, desireth to be dissolved" ; Sussex, such an unlimited hydropot as to admit : '• The water I have drunke liberally, begyning... | |
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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. 
