| Grant Thorburn - Great Britain - 1834 - 202 pages
...station, or received queenship, but that I always looked for such an alteration as I now find; for the ground of my preferment being on no surer foundation...companion, far beyond my desert or desire ; if then you have found me worthy of such honour—it is well. But let not alight fancy or bad counsel of mine enemies... | |
| Grant Thorburn - Great Britain - 1834 - 198 pages
...station, or received queenship, but that I always looked for such an alteration as I now find ; for the ground of my preferment being on no surer foundation...knew was fit and sufficient to draw that fancy to son|e other object. You have chosen me from a low estate to be your queen and companion, far beyond... | |
| 1836 - 562 pages
...exaltation, or received queenship, but 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 alteration was fit and sufficient I know to draw that fancy to some other subject Try me, good king, but let me... | |
| Patrick Fraser Tytler - Great Britain - 1837 - 486 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 companion, far beyond my desert... | |
| William Russell - Europe - 1839 - 582 pages
...exaltation, or received queenship, but that I always looked for such an alteration as I now find ; for the ground of my preferment being on no surer foundation...sufficient to draw that fancy to some other object." In another letter to the king, she says, " You have raised me from a private gentlewoman to a marchioness... | |
| George Lillie Craik - Great Britain - 1839 - 932 pages
...exaltation or received quecnship, 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 companion, far beyond mv desert... | |
| Gilbert Burnet - 1839 - 664 pages
...an alteration as now I find ; for the ground of my preferment being on no surer Fnundation than yonr Grace's Fancy, the least alteration, I knew, was fit and sufficient to draw that Fancy to some other Subject. You have chosen me, from a low estate, to be your Queen and Companion, far beyond my desert... | |
| Hannah Farnham Sawyer Lee - Biography & Autobiography - 1841 - 298 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 companion, far beyond my desert... | |
| Gilbert Burnet - Reformation - 1842 - 656 pages
...Exaltation, or received Queens!ii)>, but that I always looked for such an alteration as now I find ; for the ground of my preferment being on no surer Foundation...Grace's Fancy, the least alteration, I knew, was fit and suflicient to draw that Fancy to some other Subject. You have chosen me, from a low estate, to be your... | |
| Philip Alexander Prince - World history - 1843 - 776 pages
...exaltation or received queensliip, but that I always looked for such an alteration аз I now find ; for the ground of my preferment being on no surer foundation...sufficient to draw that fancy to some other object. My last and only request shall be, that myself may only bear the burden of your grace's displeasure,... | |
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