 | Amos Dean - 1869 - 526 trang
...which finally resulted in her flight to England, where she fell into the power of Elizabeth. There in the forty-fifth year of her age, and the nineteenth of her captivity, she was condemned to suft'er death, and was brought to the block. • This act of Elizabeth sent a... | |
 | Famous historical scenes - 1875 - 648 trang
...spectators wept and sighed at this affecting spectacle ; for flattery and zeal alike gave place to stronger and better emotions. Thus died Mary, in the forty-fifth...her age, and the nineteenth of her captivity — a princess unmatched in heauty, and unequalled in misfortunes. In contemplating the contentions of mankind,... | |
 | Mary Elsie Thalheimer - 1875 - 316 trang
...possible to resist the evidence of her guilt. She was condemned and executed at Fotheringay Castle, in the forty-fifth year of her age and the nineteenth of her captivity. Elizabeth violently blamed her councillors for unseemly haste in executing the death-warrant ; but... | |
 | World - 1881 - 928 trang
...Burleigh caused it to be carried out without delay. On the 8th of February, 1587, Mary was beheaded, in the fortyfifth year of her age and the nineteenth of her imprisonment, at Fotheringhay Castle, in Northamptonshire. But Elizabeth affected great indignation,... | |
 | Archibald Hastie Dick - 1882 - 204 trang
...friends and the sympathy even of her enemies, Mary Stewart closed her chequered career on the scaffold, in the forty-fifth year of her age, and the nineteenth of her captivity in England. Elizabeth affected surprise when she heard of her death. She threw the blame on Davidson,... | |
 | David Morris (B.A.) - 1883 - 198 trang
...the Queen 1' ' Amen ! ' was the answer from those present. Thus perished Mary 1 *>87 Q ueen of Scots, in the forty-fifth year of her age and the nineteenth of her captivity in England. The body was buried at Peterborough; but it was afterwards removed to Westminster Abbey... | |
 | 1887 - 832 trang
...she maintained to the last. The next morning, February 8, 1587, she was beheaded in the castle hall, in the forty-fifth year of her age and the nineteenth of her captivity, amidst a pity for her fate which has too often warmed into the chivalrous desire to reverse the judgment... | |
 | Ainsworth Rand Spofford, Frank Weitenkampf, John Porter Lamberton - 1894 - 462 trang
...spectators wept and sighed at this affecting spectacle ; for flattery and zeal alike gave place to stronger and better emotions. Thus died Mary, in the forty-fifth...her age, and the nineteenth of her captivity — a princess unmatched in beauty, and unequalled in misfortunes. In contemplating the contentions of mankind,... | |
 | John Clark Ridpath - 1898 - 610 trang
...seldom been able to maintain. — History of England, Chap. XL. MARY, QUEEN OF SCOTS. Thus perished, in the forty-fifth year of her age, and the nineteenth of her captivity in England, Mary, Queen of Scots — a woman of great accomplishments both of body and mind, natural... | |
 | John Clark Ridpath - 1899 - 546 trang
...seldom been able to maintain. — History of England, Chap. XL. MARY, QUEEN OF SCOTS. Thus perished, in the forty-fifth year of her age, and the nineteenth of her captivity in England, Mary, Queen of Scots — a woman of great accomplishments both of body and mind, natural... | |
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Amen," while the rest of the spectators wept and sighed at this affecting spectacle ; for flattery and zeal alike gave place to stronger and better emotions. Thus died Mary, in the forty-fifth year of her age, and the nineteenth of her captivity —... 
