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First Steps to Astronomy and Geography - Page 232
by First steps - 1828 - 386 pages
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The Life of King Henry VIII

William Shakespeare - 1916 - 200 pages
...abbot, With all his covent, honourably received him; To whom he gave these words, ' O father abbot, 20 An old man, broken with the storms of state, Is come to lay his weary bones among ye; Give him a little earth for charity! ' So went to bed ; where eagerly his sickness Pursued him...
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Fifteen Plays of Shakespeare: With a Glossary Abridged from the Oxford ...

William Shakespeare - 1916 - 1174 pages
...With all his covent, honourably receiv'd him : To whom he gave these words : ' O ! father abbot, 20 An old man, broken with the storms of state, Is come to lay his weary bones among ye ; Give him a little earth for charity.' So went to bed, where eagerly his sickness Pursu'd him still...
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Canada Lancet, Volume 52

Medicine - 1918 - 638 pages
...that had struggled long and bravely against great odds tells his sad condition in these words : — An old man, broken with the storms of State, Is come to lay his weary bones among ye; Give him a little earth for charity. Henry VIII, iv, 2. Adam in As You Like It (ii, 3), very beautifully...
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Dante and His Influence: Studies

Thomas Nelson Page - 1922 - 278 pages
...gate, when he brought Wolsey to such a door to say: "An old man, broken with the cares of State, Has come to lay his weary bones among you. Give him a little earth for charity." The teaching of Dante's great work was, as he himself declares, Righteousness. The argument is, as...
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Shakespeare's Historical Plays, Poems & Sonnets

William Shakespeare - English literature - 1924 - 904 pages
...Leicester, Lodged in the abbey ; where the reverend abbot, With all his covent, honourably received him ; To whom he gave these words, ' O father abbot,...storms of state, Is come to lay his weary bones among ye ; Give him a little earth for charity ! ' So went to bed ; where eagerly his sickness Pursued him...
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The Manchester & Glasgow Road: This Way to Gretna Green, Volume 1

Charles George Harper - England - 1924 - 296 pages
...Leicester, Lodged in the abbey ; where the reverend abbot, With all his convent, honourably received him ; To whom he gave these words — " O Father Abbot,...storms of state, Is come to lay his weary bones among ye ; Give him a little earth, for charity." He died the third day of his arrival, in the sixtieth year...
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The American Catholic Quarterly Review, Volume 4

James Andrew Corcoran, Patrick John Ryan, Edmond Francis Prendergast - 1879 - 796 pages
...reverend abbot, with all his convent," who with the charity of religious had " honorably received him," " O, Father Abbot, An old man, broken with the storms of state, Is come to lay his weary bones among ye; Give him a little earth for charity !" we are fain to worship him. The character of Wolsey in Henry...
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The Ghosts in Shakespeare: A Study of the Occultism in the Shakespeare Plays

Louis William Rogers - Dramatists, English - 1925 - 212 pages
...easy roads, he came to Leicester; Lodg'd in the abbey, where the reverend abbot, With all his covent, honourably receiv'd him: To whom he gave these words:...storms of state, Is come to lay his weary bones among ye; Give him a little earth for charity.' So went to bed, where eagerly his sickness Pursu'd him still;...
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The Yale Shakespeare: The life of King Henry the eighth, ed. by J.M. Berdan ...

William Shakespeare - 1925 - 184 pages
...abbot, With all his covent, honourably receiv'd him; To whom he gave these words: 'O father abbot, 20 An old man, broken with the storms of state, Is come to lay his weary bones among ye: Give him a little earth for charity.' So went to bed, where eagerly his sickness 24 Pursu'd him...
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The Library of Poetry and Song, Volume 1

William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1925 - 408 pages
...bright exhalation in the evening, And no man see me more. A'ilif Htnry t-'IU., Act M.Sc. a. SHAKESPEARE. An old man, broken with the storms of state, Is come to lay his weary bones among ye ; Ciivn him a little earth for charity ! Kuif Htnry Y11I., Act IV. Sc. i. SHAKESPEARE. The wine...
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