 He closed his eyes, and his face grew so still that, notwithstanding the labour of bis breathing, he would have seemed asleep, but that his lips moved a little now and then, giving a flutter of shape to the eternal prayer within him. Again he opened his...  St. George and st. Michael - Página 259por George Macdonald - 1876Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | George Alexander Cooke - 1817 - 306 páginas
...Windsor chapel, he cried out with apparent cheepfulness, " Wby, God bless us all, wby, theu ( siiail have a better castle when I am dead than they took from me while 1 was alive." The second Marquis of Worcester, and Eari of Glamorgan, is celebrated for his mechanical... | |
 | James Norris Brewer - 1820 - 516 páginas
...be buried in his family-vault, at Windsor he exclaimed, " Why, God bless us s» ! then I shall have a " better castle when I am dead than they took " from me whilst I was alive !" After its subjugation, the Castle of Raglan was dismantled by order of the Parliament... | |
 | Katherine Thomson - 1843 - 904 páginas
...permitted me to be buried in Windsor," he said, one day, to his weeping relatives ; " so I shall have a better castle when I am dead than they took from me whilst living." At last he sank to rest ! Beneath the stones of Saint George's Chapel lie the mouldering... | |
 | Charles Frederick Cliffe - 1848 - 426 páginas
...chapel, he cried out with great sprightliness of manner, " Why, God bless us all, why then I shall have a better castle when I am dead than they took from me whilst I was alive. " The castle was literally " spoiled" after the siege ; the farmers in the vicinity... | |
 | Mrs. A. T. Thomson - 1854 - 344 páginas
...his family vault at Windsor. " Why, God bless us all!" cried the dying man; " why then I shall have a better castle when I am dead, than they took from me when living!" At last, his worn-out frame, sustained only by his elastic spirit, sank to rest. A purer and... | |
 | Robert Taylor - 1854 - 104 páginas
...Chapel. he cried "out, with great sprightliness of manner, "Why, God bless us all! why, then I shall have a better castle when I am dead than they took from me whilst I was alive!" His estates, valued at £20,000 a year, were confiscated; they were recovered,... | |
 | William Howitt, Mary Botham Howitt - 1862 - 236 páginas
...family vault at Windfor, he exclaimed :—" Why, God blefs us all, then I (hall have a better caftle when I am dead, than they took from me when I was alive !" He died at the age of eighty-five. The fon of this Henry was Edward, the fixth earl and fecond marquis... | |
 | Robert Hall Baynes - 1869 - 686 páginas
...family vault at Windsor, upon which he exclaimed gaily, " Why, God bless us all, then ; I shall have a better castle when I am dead than they took from me while I was alive." Such were the ancient defences of G \ventland the Fair. And what are they now ?... | |
 | Barbara Hutton - 1868 - 398 páginas
...to be buried at Windsor, he cried out, in a merry voice, ' God bless us all ! Why, then I shall have a better castle when I am dead, than they took from me when I was alive.' The fine old spirit rested at last, and passed away to a better inheritance than he had lost in this... | |
 | 1873 - 670 páginas
...AVindsor Castle, he cried out with great vivacity, " Why, God bless us all ! why, then I shall have a better castle when I am dead than they took from me whilst I was alive." Whether the marquis be viewed as a hero, or a Christian, his character demands... | |
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