 | John Langton Sanford - Great Britain - 1858 - 650 pages
...also are to yield an account of our actions before the great Judge. To be a king and wear a crown is more glorious to them that see it, than it is pleasant to them that bear it ! For myself, I was never so much enticed with the glorious name of a king, or royal authority of a queen, as delighted... | |
 | William Lonsdale Watkinson, William Theophilus Davison - 1862 - 642 pages
...in my heart that tended not to my people's good.' In the same high-toned strain she proceeds, •' To be a king and wear a crown is a thing more glorious to them that see it than it is to them that wear it. For myself I was never so much enticed with the glorious name of a king, or the... | |
 | Janet Gordon Hardy - 1876 - 256 pages
...vanities, all is vanity.' 'To be a king, and to wear a crown,' said the solitary heart-crushed woman, ' is a thing more glorious to them that see it, than...it is pleasant to them that bear it. For myself, I was never so much enchanted with the glorious name of a king or the royal authority of a queen, as... | |
 | Arthur Howard Galton - English prose literature - 1888 - 368 pages
...me have neglected, or converted what I have committed unto them, I hope God will not lay their culps to my charge. To be a king, and wear a crown, is a thing more glorious to them that see it than its pleasant to them that bear it : for myself, I never was so much enticed with the glorious name... | |
 | Blanche Wilder Bellamy, Maud Wilder Goodwin - Readers - 1891 - 408 pages
...island crags To be lost evermore in the main. FROM "THE GOLDEN SPEECH" OF QUEEN ELIZABETH. EXTRACT. To be a King, and wear a crown, is a thing more glorious...that see it than it is pleasant to them that bear itj for myself, I never was so much enticed with the glorious name of a King, or the royal authority... | |
 | Phineas Garrett - American literature - 1897 - 938 pages
...as needful To being as breath ; Loving is dreaming — And waking is death. ffReitty. To be a kioe, and wear a crown, is a thing more glorious to them...that see it than it is pleasant to them that bear it. Queen Elizabeth. This world is but the rugeed road Which leads us to the bright abode Of peace above... | |
 | Charles William Colby - Great Britain - 1899 - 398 pages
...me have neglected, or converted what I have committed unto them, I hope God will not lay their culps to my charge. To be a king, and wear a crown, is a thing more glorious to them that see it than it's pleasant to them that bear it : for myself, I never was so much enticed with the glorious name... | |
 | Charles William Colby - Great Britain - 1899 - 378 pages
...me have neglected, or converted what I have committed unto them, I hope God will not lay their culps to my charge. To be a king, and wear a crown, is a thing more glorious to them that see it than it's pleasant to them that bear it : for myself, I never was so much enticed with the glorious name... | |
 | Scotland - 1901 - 1104 pages
...last breath. " To be a King," said Elizabeth when for the last time she opened Parliament, " and to wear a crown is a thing more glorious to them that...it is pleasant to them that bear it. For myself, I was never so much enticed with the glorious name of King or the royal authority of a Queen, as delighted... | |
 | Charles Whibley - English essays - 1902 - 344 pages
...last breath. "To be a King," said Elizabeth when for the last time she opened Parliament, " and to wear a crown is a thing more glorious to them that...it is pleasant to them that bear it. For myself, I was never so much enticed with the glorious name of King or the royal authority of a Queen, as delighted... | |
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To be a King and wear a crown is a thing more glorious to them that see it, than it is pleasant to them that bear it. 
