| Augustus John Cuthbert Hare - 1878 - 522 trang
...she was accused. Here, eighteen years after, her daughter Elizabeth stepped on shore, exclaiming, " Here landeth as true a subject, being a prisoner,...these stairs, and before thee, O God, I speak it." Fuller mentions the proverb, " A loyal heart may be landed at Traitor's Gate "— " That gate misnamed,... | |
| Daniel Joseph Kirwan - 1878 - 686 trang
...refused to get out of the boat, but seeing that force would be used, she cried out to the rowers — " Here landeth as true a subject, being a prisoner, as ever landed at these stairs ; and before Thee, oh God, I speak it, having no other friend than Thee." Proceeding up the stairs she seated herself,... | |
| 1880 - 226 trang
...the princess. As she put her foot on the dreaded stairs, she cried out loudly, " Here landeth as good a subject, being a prisoner, as ever landed at. these...stairs ; and before Thee, O God, I speak it, having none other friend but Thee." Walter Raleigh spent very many years in the Tower, being thrice imprisoned... | |
| Camilla Crosland, Mrs. Newton Crosland - 1880 - 324 trang
...sister Mary, and it is related that as she stepped on shore she turned and said, with much solemnity, "Here landeth as true a subject, being a prisoner, as ever landed at these stairs ; and before Thee, 0 God, I speak it." A few, very few years, and Mary was no more; and the some time prisoner was the... | |
| Gleanings - 1882 - 692 trang
...prouder than her looks — for in her youth she had none of that leonine beauty of her later years—" Here landeth as true a subject, being a prisoner, as ever landed at these stairs ; and before thee, О God, I speak it." Perhaps she was thinking of her mother, who had landed on the neighbouring wharf.... | |
| M. M - 1882 - 98 trang
...Stepping on the stairs, — the selfsame as her mother's foot had once touched, — she exclaimed, "Here landeth as true a subject, being a prisoner, as ever landed at these stairs. Before Thee, O God, I speak it, having no other friend but Thee alone ! " " If it were so, it was the... | |
| William John Loftie - 1883 - 498 trang
...it from her with a good dash," * and as she set foot on the steps she cried with momentary spirit, " Here landeth as true a subject, being a prisoner, as ever landed at these stairs." But her courage forsook her again when she saw the guards drawn up to receive her. The soldiers kneeled... | |
| William John Loftie - 1883 - 498 trang
...it from her with a good dash," " and as she set foot on the steps she cried with momentary spirit, " Here landeth as true a subject, being a prisoner, as ever landed at these stairs." But her courage forsook her again when she saw the guards drawn up to receive her. The soldiers kneeled... | |
| Frances A. Humphrey - 1884 - 204 trang
...she had been brought by way of the Thames, and set foot on the ill-omened stairs, she exclaimed, " Here landeth as true a subject being a prisoner, as...landed at these stairs, and before thee, O, God ! I can speak it, having no other friend but thee alone!" By Wyatt's own confession, her innocence was... | |
| 1885 - 434 trang
...; placing her foot upon the stairs, and saying aloud, with the energy peculiar to her character : " Here landeth as true a subject, being a prisoner,...stairs; and before thee, O God ! I speak it, having none other friend than Thee." In January of 1640, Stratford came back to the Tower through this gateway,... | |
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