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" No man, says Brantome, ever beheld her person without admiration and love, or will read her history without sorrow. "
Typographia, an historical sketch of the origin and progress of the art of ... - Page 242
by Thomas Curson Hansard - 1825 - 939 pages
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Biographia Scotica: Or Scottish Biographical Dictionary; Containing a Short ...

John Stark - Biography - 1805 - 488 pages
...approve of our tears as if they were shed for a person who had attained much nearer to pure virtue. No man, says Brantome, ever beheld her person without...and love, or will read her history without sorrow. None of her women were suffered to come near her dead body, which was carried into a room adjoining...
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Effusions of love from Chatelar to Mary, queen of Scotland, tr. [or rather ...

William Henry Ireland - 1808 - 256 pages
...or admiration. Thus perished Mary, Queen of Scots, after a life of forty-four years and two months. No man, says Brantome, ever beheld her person without...admiration and love, or will read her history without sorrowELEGY ON THE DEATH or MARY, QUEEN OF SCOTS. THE balmy zephyrs o'er the woodland stray, And gently...
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Beauties of Dr. Robertson: Containing the Most Prominent and Interesting ...

William Robertson - Europe - 1810 - 412 pages
...which she was imprisoned, brought on a rheumatism, which often deprived her of the use of her limbs. No man, says Brantome, ever beheld her person without...and love, or will read her history without sorrow. LORD DARKLY. MART having remained above two years in a state of widowhood, her subjects became impatient...
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Glenochel, a descriptive poem, Volume 2

James Kennedy (of Glasgow.) - 1810 - 424 pages
...grace. Her taste for music was just, and she both sung, and played upon the lute with uncommon skill. " No man," says Brantome, "ever beheld her person without...and love, or will read her history without sorrow." *„-- No. 4. ON DRUIDISM. THE appellation, Druid, seems to be connected with the term which denominates...
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The Spanish language, la gramática inglesa, and the English reader

Nicolas Gouin Dufief - Commercial correspondence, Spanish - 1811 - 606 pages
...houses in which she was imprisoned, brought on a rheumatism which deprived her of the use of her limbs. No man, says Brantome, ever beheld her person without...and love, or will read her history without sorrow. Robert tos. Speech of Jtdhrrbal to the. Roman Senate, imfiloring thnr assistance against Jugurthu....
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The History of Scotland, During the Reigns of Queen Mary and of ..., Volume 2

William Robertson - Scotland - 1811 - 538 pages
...she had been imprisoned, brought on a rheumatism, which often deprived her of the use of her limbs. No man, says Brantome, ever beheld her person without...and love, or will read her history without sorrow. None of her women were suffered to come near her dead body, which was carried into a room adjoining...
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Literary Anecdotes of the Eighteenth Century: Annals of Mr. Bowyers press ...

John Nichols - Authors, English - 1812 - 844 pages
...rose to the majestic. No man, sayi Brantome, ever beheld her person without admiration and love ; DT will read her history without sorrow." There is little...of Mary in the hall of the Scottish Corporation in C'rane-eourt, Fleet-street, will immediately discover that Mr. Graham's Mary rather resembles a modern...
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Elegant extracts: a copious selection of passages from the most ..., Volume 4

Elegant extracts - 1812 - 316 pages
...which she was imprisoned, brought on a rheumatism, which often deprived her of the use of her limbs. No man, says Brantome, ever beheld her person without...and love, or will read her history without sorrow. Robertson. CHARACTER OF JAMES I. THE principal thing which is made to serve for matter for king James's...
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Literary Anecdotes of the Eighteenth Century: Annals of Mr. Bowyers press ...

John Nichols - Authors, English - 1812 - 782 pages
...No man, says Brantome, ewr beheld her person without admiration and love ; or will i:ead her hiktory without sorrow." There is little •to praise in this, effort of Mr. Graham's pencil, who has totally •foiled. in delineating the, beauty of the unfortunate Queen. He that has seen 'the portrait of Mary...
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Literary Anecdotes of the Eighteenth Century: Annals of Mr. Bowyers press ...

John Nichols - Authors, English - 1812 - 794 pages
...delicate, both as to shape and colour; her stature was of an height that rose to Ihe majestic. No man, say* Brantome, ever beheld her person without admiration and love ; or will read h«r history without sorrow." There is little to praise in this effort of Mr. Graham's pencil," who...
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