Four Years at the Court of Henry VIII, Volume 2Smith, Elder, 1854 - Great Britain |
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Page 67 - That light we see is burning in my hall. How far that little candle throws his beams ! So shines a good deed in a naughty world.
Page 72 - A proclamation was issued, that women should not meet together to babble and talk, and that all men should keep their wives in their houses.
Page 312 - He is extremely fond of tennis, at which game it is the prettiest thing in the world to see him play, his fair skin glowing through a shirt of the finest testure.
Page 314 - : subsequently, by degrees, he went forgetting himself, and commenced saying, " We shall do so and so" : at this present he has reached such a pitch that he says,
Page 314 - He is about forty-six years old, very handsome, learned, extremely eloquent, of vast ability, and indefatigable. He, alone, transacts the same business as that which occupies all the magistracies, offices, and councils of Venice, both civil and criminal ; and all state affairs, likewise, are managed by him, let their nature be what it may. He is pensive, and has the reputation of being extremely just : he favours the people exceedingly, and especially the poor ; hearing...
Page 225 - After supper, a mummery, consisting of twelve male and twelve female maskers, made their appearance in the richest and most sumptuous array possible, being all dressed alike. After performing certain dances in their own fashion, they took off their visors ; the two leaders were the King and...
Page 314 - He is about forty-six years old," says the writer, " very handsome,1 learned, extremely eloquent, of vast ability, and indefatigable. He alone transacts the same business as that which occupies all the magistracies, offices, and councils of Venice, both civil and criminal ; and all state affairs likewise are managed by him, let their nature be what it may. "He is pensive, and has the reputation of being extremely' just. He favours the people exceedingly, and especially the poor, hearing their suits...
Page 314 - He is in very great repute — seven times more so than if he were Pope. He has a very fine palace, where one traverses eight rooms before reaching his audience chamber, and they are all hung with tapestry, which is changed once a week.
Page 312 - His majesty is twenty-nine years old and extremely handsome. Nature could not have done more for him. He is much handsomer than any other sovereign in Christendom ; a great deal handsomer than the king of France ; very fair and his whole frame admirably proportioned.
Page 161 - Priest f" and he was obliged to go and play for her ; after which, the King, with the Princess in his arms, came to me and said, " Per Deum, iste est honestissimus vir et unus carissimus, nullus unquam servivit mihi fidelius et melius illo, scribaris Domino vestro quod habeat ipsum commendatum.