| Alexander Chalmers - Biography - 1815 - 494 pages
...refuse, which, in a person of his disposition, seems strange. " Please your majesty," replied he, " if you intend to make me a knight, I wish it may be one of your poor knights of Windsor ; and then I shall have a fortune, at least able to support my title." Yet we do not find that the king took the... | |
| John Britton, Edward Wedlake Brayley, Joseph Nightingale, James Norris Brewer, John Evans, John Hodgson, Francis Charles Laird, Frederic Shoberl, John Bigland, Thomas Rees - Architecture - 1813 - 696 pages
...rank, wit!, out increasing his income. " Please your majesty," said he, " if you intend to make me knight, I wish it may be one of your poor knights of Windsor ; and then I shall have a fortune at least equal to support my title." This hint passed unnoticed by the sovereign,... | |
| Biography - 1815 - 488 pages
...refuse, which, in a person of his disposition, seems strange. " Please your majesty," replied he, " if you intend to make me a knight, I wish it may be one of your poor knights of Windsor ; and then I shall have a fortune, at least able to support my title." Yet we do not find that the king took the... | |
| Characters and characteristics - 1832 - 512 pages
...considering his excessive vanity, appears somewhat extraordinary. " Please your majesty," replied he, " if you intend to make me a knight, I wish it may be one of your poor knights of Windsor, and then I shall have a fortune at least competent to the support of my title." Though Nash acquired no riches... | |
| Characters and characteristics - 1832 - 644 pages
...considering his excessive vanity, appears somewhat extraordinary. " Please your majesty," replied he, "if you intend to make me a knight, I wish it may be one of your poor knights of Windsor, and then I shall have a fortune at least competent to the support of my title." Though Nash acquired no riches... | |
| Richard Brookes - Geography - 1832 - 864 pages
...which it was customary to welcome the monarch. So pleased was William with the entertainment, tnat he offered him the honour of knighthood ; but Nash...Please your majesty, if you intend to make me a knight, 1 wish it may be one of your poor knights of Windsor, and then I shall have a fortune at least equal... | |
| Encyclopaedia Americana - 1832 - 620 pages
...monarch. So pleased was William with the entertainment, that he offered him the honor ofknighthood ; but Nash refused it, saying, " Please your majesty, if you intend to make me a knight, 1 wish it may be one of your poor knights of Windsor, and then I shall have a fortune at least equal... | |
| Francis Lieber - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1832 - 632 pages
...knighthood ; but Nash refused it, ^yingi " Please your majesty, if you intend to make me a knight, 1 wish it may be one of your poor knights of Windsor, and then I shall have a fortune at least equal to support my tide." In 1704, he was appointed master of the ceremonies... | |
| Francis Lieber, Edward Wigglesworth - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1835 - 620 pages
...to welcome the monarch. So pleased was William with the entertainment, that he offered him the honor of knighthood ; but Nash refused it, saying, " Please your majesty, if you intend to make me a knight, 1 wish it may be one of your poor knights of Windsor, and then I shall have a fortune at least equal... | |
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