Sir Thomas More: Selections from His English Works and from the Lives of Erasmus & Roper

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Clarendon Press, 1924 - 191 من الصفحات

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الصفحة 34 - Pluck up thy spirits, man, and be not afraid to do thine office. My neck is very short. Take heed therefore thou strike not awry, for saving of thine honesty.
الصفحة 15 - I find his grace my very good lord indeed, and I believe he doth as singularly favour me, as any subject within this realm : howbeit, son Roper, I may tell thee, I...
الصفحة 12 - Whereupon the king, conceiving great indignation towards him, could not be satisfied until he had some way revenged it. And forasmuch as he nothing having, nothing could lose, his grace devised a causeless quarrel against his father, keeping him in the Tower till he had made him pay to him a hundred pounds fine.
الصفحة 10 - ... studying for the matter, make a part of his own there presently among them, which made the lookers-on more sport than all the players beside.
الصفحة 34 - Lieutenant, see me safe up, and for my coming down let me shift for myself.
الصفحة 74 - I shall rehearse you the dolorous end of those babes, not after every way that I have heard, but after that way that I have so heard by such men and by such means as me thinketh it were hard but it should be true.
الصفحة 33 - ... and bills went round about him, hastily ran to him, and there openly in the sight of them all, embraced him, took him about the neck and kissed him.
الصفحة 170 - I never liked your manner toward me better than when you kissed me last: for I love when daughterly love and dear charity hath no leisure to look to worldly courtesy. Farewell, my dear child, and pray for me, and I shall for you and all your friends, that we may merrily meet in Heaven.
الصفحة 169 - Our Lord bless you good daughter and your good husband and your little boy and all yours and all my children and all my godchildren and all our friends. Recommend me when...
الصفحة 33 - ... about him, suddenly turned back again, ran to him as before, took him about the neck, and divers times together most lovingly kissed him, and at last with a full 250 heavy heart was fain to depart from him.

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