The Gunpowder Plot and Lord Mounteagle's Letter: Being a Proof, with Moral Certitude, of the Authorsip of the Document: Together with Some Account of the Whole Thirteen Gunpowder Conspirators, Including Guy FawkesSimpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Company, Limited; [etc.., 1902 - Gunpowder Plot, 1605 - 412 pages |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 63
Page ix
... historic imagination , a drama that is a poem in action . Nay , more ; it is to have had a personal , experi- mental realization , through the historic feeling , of what is meant , in the realm of Moral actualities , by the infliction ...
... historic imagination , a drama that is a poem in action . Nay , more ; it is to have had a personal , experi- mental realization , through the historic feeling , of what is meant , in the realm of Moral actualities , by the infliction ...
Page 2
... Historical Inquirer into this hitherto inscrutable mystery is destined to come after reviewing and weighing the Evidence now available — which to - day is more abundant from a variety of accidental circumstances , than when Lingard and ...
... Historical Inquirer into this hitherto inscrutable mystery is destined to come after reviewing and weighing the Evidence now available — which to - day is more abundant from a variety of accidental circumstances , than when Lingard and ...
Page 3
... Historical Inquirer can take swing . And not only so ; but - like the cords of the rocket life - saving apparatus of the eager mariner - they will be lines of attachment and rules of thought , whereby first to secure to ourselves the ...
... Historical Inquirer can take swing . And not only so ; but - like the cords of the rocket life - saving apparatus of the eager mariner - they will be lines of attachment and rules of thought , whereby first to secure to ourselves the ...
Page 21
... historic town in the East Riding of Yorkshire , was there- fore a Yorkshireman by birth . He was the son of Edward 1 Lord Edmund Talbot , brother to the present Duke of Norfolk , K.G. , Hereditary Earl Marshal of England , is allied to ...
... historic town in the East Riding of Yorkshire , was there- fore a Yorkshireman by birth . He was the son of Edward 1 Lord Edmund Talbot , brother to the present Duke of Norfolk , K.G. , Hereditary Earl Marshal of England , is allied to ...
Page 22
... historic and distinguished lineage , who had large posses- sions in Northamptonshire , Oxfordshire , and Warwickshire , yielding him about £ 3,000 a year , or probably from £ 24,000- to £ 30,000 a year in our money . These large estates ...
... historic and distinguished lineage , who had large posses- sions in Northamptonshire , Oxfordshire , and Warwickshire , yielding him about £ 3,000 a year , or probably from £ 24,000- to £ 30,000 a year in our money . These large estates ...
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
Abington Ambrose Rookwood ancient Anne Babthorpe brother Castle CHAPTER Christopher Wright Church Coughton County Dacres Duke Earl Edward Oldcorne England English Esquire Everard Digby evidence fact Father Garnet Father Oldcorne Foley's Records Francis gentleman Gerard Givendale Gothurst Gunpowder Plot Gunpowder Treason Guy Fawkes Hall Henry Garnet Hindlip historic Honourable Howard Huddington Humphrey Littleton Ingleby James Jesuit John Wright King Knaresbrough knew knowledge Lady Lapworth Letter London Lord Mounteagle Lord Vaux Marmaduke Ward married Mary Ward Minster moral Morley Mounteagle's Mulwith Narrative Neville Newby Norton November October Oldcorne's Parliament person plotters Plowland Priest probably Pulleyn Queen Elizabeth reason reign Richard Robert Catesby Robert Winter Roman Catholic Salisbury says Scotton Shakespeare Sir Everard Digby Sir Thomas Stanley Thomas Percy Thomas Ward Thomas Winter told Tresham truth unto Ursula Vaux of Harrowden Ward or Warde Warwickshire Welwick wife Worcester Worcestershire York Yorkshire yowe
Popular passages
Page 273 - O Proserpina, For the flowers now, that frighted thou let'st fall From Dis's waggon ! daffodils, That come before the swallow dares, and take The winds of March with beauty ; violets dim, But sweeter than the lids of Juno's eyes Or Cytherea's breath ; pale primroses, That die unmarried, ere they can behold Bright Phoebus in his strength, a malady Most incident to maids ; bold oxlips and The crown imperial ; lilies of all kinds, The flower-de-luce being one...
Page 239 - I pray you, in your letters, When you shall these unlucky deeds relate, Speak of me as I am ; nothing extenuate, Nor set down aught in malice...
Page 402 - I go, and it is done : the bell invites me. Hear it not, Duncan, for it is a knell That summons thee to heaven, or to hell.
Page 39 - You shall swear by the blessed Trinity, and by the sacrament you now propose to receive, never to disclose directly or indirectly, by word or circumstance, the matter that shall be proposed to you to keep secret, nor desist from the execution thereof until the rest shall give you leave.
Page viii - But evil is wrought by want of Thought, As well as by want of Heart.
Page 20 - And Jacob served seven years for Rachel; and they seemed unto him but a few days, for the love he had to her.
Page 226 - Thou shalt come to thy grave in a full age, like as a shock of corn cometh in in his season.
Page 9 - Morley, being in his own lodgings ready to go to supper at seven of the clock at night, one of his footmen, whom he had sent of an errand over the street, was met by a man of a reasonable tall personage, who delivered him a letter, charging him to put it in my lord his master's hands ; which my lord no sooner...
Page 179 - Mr. Catesby took from his neck a cross of gold which he always used to wear about him, and blessing himself with it and kissing it, showed it unto the people, protesting there solemnly before them all, it was only for the honour of the Cross, and the exaltation of that Faith which honoured the Cross, and for the saving of their souls in the same Faith, that had moved him to undertake the business; and sith he saw it was not God's will it should succeed in that manner they intended or at that time,...
Page 147 - ... the dangere is passed as soon as yowe have burnt the letter and i hope god will give yowe the grace to mak good use of ' it to whose holy proteccion i commend yowe.