 | Katherine Thomson - 1826 - 650 pages
...fancy, the least alteration I knew •was fit and sufficient to draw that fancy to another subject. " You have chosen me from a low estate to be your queen and companion, far beyond my * Probably the Duke of Norfolk, desert and desire ; if then you found me worthy of such honour, good... | |
 | Mrs. A. T. Thomson - 1826 - 678 pages
...alteration I knew was fit and sufficient to draw that fancy to another subject. " You have chosen me frora a low estate to be your queen and companion, far beyond my * Probably 'the Duke of Norfolk, y 3 desert and desire ; if then you found me worthy of such honour,... | |
 | Elizabeth Benger - Great Britain - 1827 - 496 pages
...exaltation, or received queenship, but that I always looked for such an alteration as now I find ; for the ground of my preferment being on no surer foundation...fit and sufficient to draw that fancy to some other subject. You have chosen me, from a low estate, to be your Queen and * Probably the Duke of Norfolk.... | |
 | Sharon Turner - Great Britain - 1828 - 590 pages
...that I always looked for such an alteration as I now find ; for the ground of my preferment being'on no surer foundation than your grace's fancy, the least...fit and sufficient to draw that fancy to some other subject.' Burn. 154. Was this just language to a king, who had persevered in waiting above five years,... | |
 | David Hume, Tobias Smollett, William Jones - Great Britain - 1828 - 420 pages
...exaltation or received queeuship, but that I always looked for such an alteration as I now find ; for the ground of my preferment being on no surer foundation...the least alteration I knew was fit and sufficient criminal correspondence with the queen53; but even1 her enemies expected little advantage from this... | |
 | Gilbert Burnet - Reformation - 1829 - 572 pages
...exaltation, or received queenship, but that I always looked for such an alteration as now I find ; for the ground of my preferment being on no surer foundation than your grace's fancy ; the least Alteration was fit and sufficient (I know) to draw that fancy to some other subject. You have chosen me, from... | |
 | Gilbert Burnet (bp. of Salisbury.) - 1829 - 572 pages
...exaltation, or received queenship, but that I always looked for such an alteration as now I find ; for the ground of my preferment being on no surer foundation than your grace's fancy ; the least Alteration was fit and sufficient (I know) to draw that fancy to some other subject. You have chosen me, from... | |
 | Readers - 1830 - 288 pages
...exaltation, or received queenship7, but that I always looked for 8 such an alteration as I now find ; for the ground of my preferment being on no surer foundation than your Grace's fancy, Ihe least alteration, I knew, was fit and sufficient to draw that fancy to some other object. Yon have... | |
 | Spectator - 1832 - 280 pages
...exaltation or received Queensnip, but that I always looked for such an alteration as I now find; for the ground of my preferment being on no surer foundation...object. You have chosen me, from a low estate, to he your Queen and companion, far beyond my desert or desire. If then you found me worthy of such honour,... | |
 | Henry Walter - Great Britain - 1832 - 642 pages
...I could willingly have contented myse|f, if GOD and your grace's pleasure had so been pleased. — You have chosen ' me from a low estate to be your...my desert or desire. If then you found me worthy of • He uses this word as meaning " to make clear/ )• Jeremiah xvii. !(such honour, good your grace,... | |
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I at any time so far forget myself in my exaltation, or received queenship, but that I always looked for such an alteration as... 
