 | Famous historical scenes - 1875 - 648 pages
...and common honesty." Cromwell was at no loss for the well-known retort which was scarcely a reply : Sir Harry Vane, Sir Harry Vane ! the. Lord deliver me from Sir Harry Vane ! No less celebrated is his exclamation, "Take away that bauble ! " or more accurately, " Take away... | |
 | Joseph Woodfall Ebsworth - Ballads, English - 1876 - 492 pages
...employed to cause the death of Strafford. To all posterity recorded, came the ejaculation of Cromwell : " Sir Harry Vane, Sir Harry Vane — the Lord deliver me from Sir Harry Vane !" And, excepting a few dissentient voices, the said posterity echoes the words approvingly. The "bauble"... | |
 | Joseph Woodfall Ebsworth - Ballads, English - 1876 - 492 pages
...employed to cause the death of Strafford. To all posterity recorded, came the ejaculation "of Cromwell : " Sir Harry Vane, Sir Harry Vane — the Lord deliver me from Sir Harry Vane !" And, excepting a few dissentient voices, the said posterity echoes the words approvingly. The "... | |
 | M. F. O'MALLEY - 1876 - 314 pages
...watch and admire. Nothing pleasant can last for ever, though. A hearty voice was heard exclaiming— " Sir Harry Vane ! Sir Harry Vane! The Lord deliver me from Sir Harry Vane!" And Mr Willoughby appeared on his strong, brown cob. " Glad to see you, Harry, my boy. Where did you... | |
 | James Davies (of Southport.) - Great Britain - 1877 - 232 pages
...honest. Yea ! it is against morality and common honesty," was answered, in a loud and angry tone, " O ! Sir Harry Vane ! Sir Harry Vane ! The Lord deliver me from Sir Harry Vane"! Other members, successively, he stigmatised as adulterers, drunkards, gluttons, and extortioners. Regarding... | |
 | Joseph Woodfall Ebsworth - Ballads, English - 1878 - 712 pages
...condensed into one ejaculation by " Old Noll " when he forcibly dissolved the Kump Parliament in 1653 : " O, Sir Harry Vane ! Sir Harry Vane ! The Lord deliver me from Sir Harry Vane 1 " A long martyrdom under intolerable prosing is revealed by the gasp of the Protector. To rigid moralists,... | |
 | Peter Bayne - Great Britain - 1878 - 530 pages
...SIB HENRY VANE. younger Vane, whom most people have heard of I as the man to whom Cromwell said, " Sir Harry Vane, Sir Harry Vane ! The Lord deliver me from Sir Harry Vane ! " exhibited a combination of spiritual enthusiasm with dialectical subtlety, of the stiffest individualism... | |
 | Joseph Woodfall Ebsworth - Ballads - 1878 - 764 pages
...into one ejaculation by '•' Old Noll " when he forcibly dissolved the Rump Parliament in 1653 : " 0, Sir Harry Vane ! Sir Harry Vane ! The Lord deliver me from Sir Harry Vane ! " A long martyrdom nnder intolerable prosing is revealed by the gasp of the Protector. To rigid moralists,... | |
 | Ellen Webley Parry - Great Britain - 1879 - 530 pages
...honester men." Sir Harry Vane protesting against this proceeding, Cromwell said with a loud voice, " Sir Harry Vane, Sir Harry Vane ; the Lord deliver me from Sir Harry Vane." He stamped on the floor, and the musketeers poured in; he then, pointing to the speaker's mace, said,... | |
 | David Morris - Great Britain - 1879 - 586 pages
...indignant at this violence, said, ' This is not honest; yea, it is against morality and common honesty.' 'Sir Harry Vane, Sir Harry Vane! the Lord deliver me from Sir Harry Vane!' was the general's retort. Having thus cleared the House, the doors were locked, and Cromwell, with... | |
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You are no longer a parliament. I tell you, you are no longer a parliament. The Lord has done with you: he has chosen other instruments for carrying on his work." Sir Harry Vane exclaiming against this proceeding, he cried with a loud voice, "O! Sir Harry... 
