Four Years at the Court of Henry VIII, 2. cilt

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Smith, Elder, 1854
 

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Sayfa 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.
Sayfa 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.
Sayfa 314 - I shall do so and so." 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.
Sayfa 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 thoughtful, and has the reputation of being extremely just.
Sayfa 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.
Sayfa 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,
Sayfa 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...
Sayfa 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.
Sayfa 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.
Sayfa 235 - The king about this season was much given to play at tennis and at the dice, which appetite certain crafty persons about him perceiving, brought in Frenchmen and Lombards to make wagers with him, and so he lost much money ; but when he perceived their craft, he eschewed their company, and let them go.

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