Memoirs of the Court of King Charles the First, Volume 2Carey, Lea and Blanchard, 1833 - Great Britain |
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Page 364 - When there was any overture or hope of peace, he would be more erect and vigorous, and exceedingly solicitous to press any thing which he thought might promote it ; and, sitting among his friends, often, after a deep silence, and frequent sighs, would with a shrill and sad accent, ingeminate the word peace, peace...
Page 409 - I came into the House one morning, well clad, and perceived a gentleman speaking, whom I knew not, very ordinarily apparelled; for it was a plain cloth suit, which seemed to have been made by an ill country tailor; his linen was plain, and not very clean; and I remember a speck or two of blood upon his little band, which was not much larger than his collar: his hat was without a hatband. His stature was of a good size; his sword stuck close to his side; his countenance swollen and reddish; his voice...
Page 286 - There appeared no conflux of men in obedience to the proclamation ; the arms and ammunition were not yet come from York, and a general sadness covered the whole town.
Page 409 - ... a plain cloth suit which seemed to have been made by an ill country tailor ; his linen was plain, and not very clean, and I remember a speck or two of blood upon his little band, which was not much larger than his collar ; his hat was without a hatband ; his stature was of a good size ; his sword stuck close to his side ; his countenance swollen and reddish ; his voice sharp and untunable, and his eloquence full of fervour.
Page 579 - Remember I am your king, your lawful king, and what sins you bring upon your heads, and the judgment of God upon this land; think well upon it, I say, think well upon it, before you go further from one sin to a greater...
Page 296 - For let occasion be never so handsome, unless a man were resolved to fight on the parliament side, which, for my part, I had rather be hanged, it will be said without doubt, that a man is afraid to fight. If there could be an expedient found to salve the punctilio of honour, I would not continue here an hour. The discontent that I, and many other honest men receive daily, is beyond expression.
Page 474 - — endeavouring to get to London ; " being not without hope that I shall be able so to draw " either the Presbyterians or the Independents to side with me " for extirpating one another, that I shall be really King again.
Page 304 - I have eaten his bread, and served him near thirty years, and will not do so base a thing as to forsake him...
Page 36 - Compounding into one mass all the incomprehensible dreams of the Cabalists and Paracelsians, he formed a new physical system, of wonderful mystery and absurdity. He imagined two universal principles, — the northern, or condensing power ; and the southern, or rarefying. Over these he placed innumerable intelligences, or geniuses, and he called together troops of spirits from the four winds, to whom he committed the charge of diseases.
Page 334 - We are both upon the stage and must act those parts that are assigned us in this tragedy. Let us do it in a way of honour and without personal animosities.