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... Bishop Bonner , procured his im- prisonment ; he was arrested and sent to the Tower on a charge of having defamed the King , and having conspired with Reginald Pole against him . After an eloquent defence Wyatt was acquitted and ...
... Bishop Bonner , procured his im- prisonment ; he was arrested and sent to the Tower on a charge of having defamed the King , and having conspired with Reginald Pole against him . After an eloquent defence Wyatt was acquitted and ...
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... Bishop John Bale , Scriptorum Illustrium Maioris Brit- tanniæ Catalogus ( 1548-1559 ) , Leland's Lives are dis- figured by many avoidable errors and fables , but are noteworthy as being first in a series of efforts leading up to the ...
... Bishop John Bale , Scriptorum Illustrium Maioris Brit- tanniæ Catalogus ( 1548-1559 ) , Leland's Lives are dis- figured by many avoidable errors and fables , but are noteworthy as being first in a series of efforts leading up to the ...
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... Bishop of Gloucester in such wise that the court roared with laughter . He had little turn for specu- lation , but intense moral earnestness , backed up by no small store of irony and invective . " His homely humour breaks in with story ...
... Bishop of Gloucester in such wise that the court roared with laughter . He had little turn for specu- lation , but intense moral earnestness , backed up by no small store of irony and invective . " His homely humour breaks in with story ...
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... Bishop Ridley , were handed over to the secular arm for execution in the ditch over against Balliol College , Oxford ( nigh where the Martyrs ' Memorial now stands ) .1 Another of the early masters of English prose , who deserves a ...
... Bishop Ridley , were handed over to the secular arm for execution in the ditch over against Balliol College , Oxford ( nigh where the Martyrs ' Memorial now stands ) .1 Another of the early masters of English prose , who deserves a ...
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... Bishop Thomas Cooper , and published in 1550 under the title of Thesaurus . Sir Thomas More , a son of a justice of the King's Bench , was born in Milk Street , London , on February 7th , 1478 , and as a boy was sent as a page to the ...
... Bishop Thomas Cooper , and published in 1550 under the title of Thesaurus . Sir Thomas More , a son of a justice of the King's Bench , was born in Milk Street , London , on February 7th , 1478 , and as a boy was sent as a page to the ...
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Page 98 - Christ was the word that spake it; He took the bread and brake it ; And what the word did make it, That I believe and take it.
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Page 361 - Since I am coming to that holy room Where, with Thy choir of saints for evermore, I shall be made Thy music; as I come I tune the instrument here at the door, And what I must do then, think here before.
Page 240 - Sweet Swan of Avon! what a sight it were To see thee in our waters yet appear, And make those flights upon the banks of Thames, That so did take Eliza, and our James!
Page 182 - I labour to pourtraict in Arthure, before he was king, the image of a brave knight, perfected in the twelve private morall vertues, as Aristotle hath devised, the which is the purpose of these first twelve bookes...
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Page 222 - This precious stone set in the silver sea, Which serves it in the office of a wall, Or as a moat defensive to a house, Against the envy of less happier lands, This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England...
Page 382 - Whoe'er she be, That not impossible she That shall command my heart and me...
Page 249 - It had bene a thing, we confesse, worthie to have bene wished, that the author himselfe had liv'd to have set forth and overseen his owne writings; but since it hath bin ordain'd otherwise, and he by death departed from that right...
Page 217 - He had, by a misfortune common enough to young fellows, fallen into ill company, and amongst them, some that made a frequent practice of deer-stealing, engaged him more than once in robbing a park that belonged to Sir Thomas Lucy, of Charlecote, near Stratford.