 | Cyclopaedia - 1853 - 772 pages
...now dead midnight, Cold fearful drops stand on my trembling flesh. What do I fear? myself? Shakspere. I feel within me A peace above all earthly dignities, A still and quiet conscience. Shakspere. Conscience doth make cowards of us all. — Shakspere. But why must those be thought to... | |
 | Theodore Alors W. Buckley - Children's literature, English - 1854 - 332 pages
...wonder A great man should decline? Nay, if you weep, I am fallen indeed. Crom. How does your grace? Wol. Why, well; Never so truly happy, my good Cromwell....dignities ; A still and quiet conscience. The king has cured me, I humblyt hank his grace ; and from these shoulders, These ruin'd pillars, out of pity, taken... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1854 - 796 pages
...wonder A great man should decline ? Nay, and you weep, I am fallen indeed. Cram. How does your grace * Wol. Why, well; Never so truly happy, my good Cromwell....feel within me A peace above all earthly dignities, A Btill and quiet conscience. The king has cured me, I humbly thank his grace ; and from these shoulders,... | |
 | Allen Hayden Weld - 1854 - 108 pages
...great man should decline ? Nay, an you weep, I am fallen indeed. 25 , Crom. — How does your grace ? Wol. — Why, well ; Never so truly happy, my good...feel within me A peace above all earthly dignities, 30 A still and quiet conscience. The king has cured me, 1 humbly thank his grace; and from these shoulders,... | |
 | David Bates Tower, Cornelius Walker - Elocution - 1854 - 440 pages
...A great man should decline ?• Nay, ar.' you weep, I am fallen indeed. Cram. How does your grace ? Wol. Why, well; Never so truly happy, my good Cromwell'....myself now ; and I feel within me A peace "above all earfhly dignities, — A still and quiet conscience. The king has cured mer I humbly thank his grace... | |
 | David Bates Tower, Cornelius Walker - Readers - 1855 - 442 pages
...fallen indeed. Crom. How does your grace ? Wol. Why, well; Never so truly happy, my good Cromwell. 1 know myself now ; and I feel within me A peace above...dignities, — A still and quiet conscience. The king has cured me, I humbly thank his grace ; and from these shoulders, These ruined pillars, out of pity, taken... | |
 | John Henry Jowett - Devotional literature - 1913 - 296 pages
...snow is the servant of a quickened life. Let me read once more: CROMWELL: How does your grace? WOLSEY: Why, well; Never so truly happy, my good Cromwell....all earthly dignities, A still and quiet conscience. And so I say the snow is the minister in the development of the Lord's design. If we had no snow in... | |
 | Edward Joseph White - Law in literature - 1913 - 588 pages
...(Act II, Scene IV.) After his fall Cardinal Wolsey said, in regard to the charges against him: "WoJ. I feel within me, a peace above all earthly dignities, a still and quiet conscience." (Act III, Scene II.) And speaking of Lord Chancellor More, chosen in his place, he said: "May he continue... | |
 | Quotations, English - 1913 - 264 pages
...enterprises of great pith and moment, With this regard their currents turn awry, And lose the name of action. I feel within me A peace above all earthly dignities, A still and quiet conscience. Shakespeare: Henry VIII. 0 conscience, into what abyss of fears And horrors hast thou driven me; out... | |
 | Edmund Arnold Greening Lamborn - Criticism - 1916 - 204 pages
...it is often learned by small boys as ' a Shakespearian gem '. Now, at line 374 enters Shakespeare : Never so truly happy, my good Cromwell. I know myself...conscience. The king has cur'd me, I humbly thank his Grace; The verse-rhythm has ceased to be insistent ; it has sunk into subconsciousness ; to read the rest... | |
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Why, well ; Never so truly happy, my good Cromwell. I know myself now ; and I feel within me A peace above all earthly dignities, A still and quiet conscience. 
