Her Majesty's Tower

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Harper & brothers, 1869 - 263 pages
 

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Page 226 - Have mercy upon me, O God, after thy great goodness : according to the multitude of thy mercies do away mine offences.
Page 101 - The First Part of the True and Honourable History of the Life of Sir John Oldcastle, the Good Lord Cobham.
Page 368 - Nor was this interference with his chemical labours all that he had to bear from Waad. A few months later, the Lieutenant found a fresh cause of offence in the popular homage paid to the man whom he had been set to watch. " Raleigh," he wrote to Cecil, " doth show himself upon the wall in his garden to the view of the people, who gaze upon him; which made me bold to restrain him again." Slowly, very slowly, the man of action paled into the man of thought. Under Harvey's rule, nothing more had been...
Page 30 - Here landeth as true a subject, being a prisoner, as ever landed at these stairs ; and before Thee, O God, I speak it.

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