 Tilly Vally, .what will you do, Mr. More? will you sit and make goslings in the ashes ? Would to God, I were a man, and you should quickly see what I would do. What! why, go forward with the best : for, as my mother was wont to say, It is ever better...  The Life of Sir Thomas More - Page 201by Cresacre More - 1828 - 376 pagesFull view - About this book
 | History - 1795 - 532 pages
...worldly-minded woman, being much chagrined ai 473 it, she replied in her accustomed manner, ' Tilly Vally, what will * you do Mr. More ¡ Will you sit ' .and make goslings in the ashes ? ' What, is it not better to rule * than to be ruled f But to divert the ill-humour which he saw she... | |
 | Gleanings - 1805 - 246 pages
...exceedingly chagrined, and replied to him in a manner that was usual to her.— "Tilly bally—what will you do Mr. More ? Will you sit and make goslings in the ashes ? Would to God I were a man, and you should quickly see what I would do." " What woxhl YOU do,"~said... | |
 | 1808 - 602 pages
...The good lady is reported to have exclaimed, with her usual worldly feeling on this occasion, Tilly vally, what will you do, Mr. More ? will you sit and...goslings in the ashes ? it is better to rule than bei ruled.' Vol. I. p. 122 ' While he was si ting one day in his hall, a beggar came to complain to... | |
 | English literature - 1808 - 606 pages
...feeling on this occasion. Till tal/i/, what uill yiiu du Mr. More ? -mill you sit and make gusltiigs in the ashes ? it is better to rule than to be ruled.' After his resignation of the chancellorship, More's income amounted to little more than one hundred... | |
 | Richard Lovell Edgeworth - Education - 1809 - 516 pages
...finding he was in earnest, and being a worldly-minded " woman, cried, in her accustomed manner, * Tilly vally, what will you do, " *Mr. More? will you sit and make goslings in the coals? would to God I ** * were a man, and you should quickly see what I would do! I would not be "... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - Biography - 1815 - 570 pages
...submission to his will. She therefore discharged some of her vulgar eloquence on him : — " Tilly Vallj, what will you do, Mr. More ? will you sit and make goslings in the ashes ? Would to God, I were a man, and you should quickly see what I would do. What! wby, go forward with... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - Biography - 1815 - 572 pages
...submission to his will. She therefore discharged some of her vulgar eloquence on him : — " Tilly Vally, .what will you do, Mr. More? will you sit and make goslings in the ashes ? Would to God, I were a man, and you should quickly see what I would do. What! why, go forward with... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - Biography - 1815 - 564 pages
...submission to his will. She therefore discharged some of her" vulgar eloquence on him : — " Tilly Vally, what will you do, Mr. More ? will you sit and make goslings in the ashes ? Would to God, I were a man, and you should quickly see what I would do. What! why, go forward with... | |
 | Francis Wrangham - Great Britain - 1816 - 606 pages
...actually stood; upon which, being a worldly-minded woman, she exclaimed in her accustomed manner, " Tilly vally, what will you do, Mr. More ? will you sit and make goslings in the coals ? Would to God I were a man, and you should quickly see what I would do! I would not be so foolish... | |
 | Cresacre More - Christian martyrs - 1828 - 456 pages
...; the world, by despising it ; and the devil by resisting manfully all his temptations. CHAPTER IX. Sir Thomas had behaved himself in his office of the...perceive that your mother's nose standeth somewhat awry T At which words she stept away from him in a rage. All which he did to make her think the less of... | |
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