 | Horace Walpole - English literature - 1806 - 476 pages
...they wound, In the king's name the king himself 's uncrown,d, So doth the dust destroy the diamond. My life they prize at such a slender rate, That in...of hate, To prove the king a traitor to the state. Felons attain more priviledge than I, They are allow'd to answer ere they dye ; T is death to me to... | |
 | William Harris - 1814 - 518 pages
...the private to the public character of Charles. Abroad he made little figure; his wars being ill xx. My life they prize at such a slender rate, That in...absence they draw bills of hate, To prove the king a traytor to the state. XXI. Felons obtain more privilege than I, They are allow'd to answer ere they... | |
 | William Harris - 1814 - 510 pages
...the private to the public character of Charles. Abroad he made little figure; his wars being ill XX. My life they prize at such a slender rate, That in my absence they draw hills of hate, To prove the king a traytor to the state . xxr. Felons obtain more privilege than I,... | |
 | William Godwin - Great Britain - 1826 - 724 pages
...expresses his " fear they.ll force him to make bread of stones." The twentieth and twenty-first run thus : My life they prize at such a slender rate, That in...of hate, To prove the king a traitor to the state. Felons obtain more privilege than T ; They are allowed to answer ere they die; Ti s death for me to... | |
 | Thomas Percy - Ballads, English - 1839 - 444 pages
...thrones, 55 Distress my children, and destroy my hones ; I fear they 'l1 force me to make bread of stones. My life they prize at such a slender rate, That in...absence they draw bills of hate, To prove the king a traytor to the state. 60 Felons obtain more privilege than I, They are allow'd to answer ere they die... | |
 | English poetry - 1839 - 374 pages
...thrones, 55 Distress my children, and destroy my hones ; I fear they'll force me to make hread of stones. My life they prize at such a slender rate, That in my ahsence they draw hills of hate, To prove the king a traytor to the state. 60 Felons ohtain more privilege... | |
 | John Burke, Bernard Burke - Genealogy - 1848 - 636 pages
...thrones, Distress my children, and destroy my bones ; I fear they'll force me to make bread of stones. My life they prize at such a slender rate, That in...of hate, To prove the king a traitor to the state. Felons obtain more privilege than I, They are allowed to answer ere they die — 'Tis death for me... | |
 | Agnes Strickland - Queens - 1848 - 410 pages
...they wound ; In the king's name, the king himself 's uncrowned; So doth the dust destroy the diamond ! Felons obtain more privilege than I ; They are allowed...ere they die : 'Tis death for me to ask the reason why.1 Yet, sacred Saviour, with thy words I woo Thee to forgive, and not be bitter to Such as (thou... | |
 | Bernard Burke - England - 1849 - 262 pages
...thrones, Distress my children, and destroy my bones ; I fear they'll force me to make bread of stones. My life they prize at such a slender rate, That in...of hate, To prove the king a traitor to the state. C!i THE LANDS OF ENGLAND. But, sacred Saviour, with thy words I woo Thee to forgive, and not be bitter... | |
 | Agnes Strickland - 1851 - 742 pages
...they wound. In the king's name the king himself s uncrowned; So doth the dust destroy the diamond! Felons obtain more privilege than I ; They are allowed...ere they die : "Tis death for me to ask the reason why?1 Yet, sacred Saviour, with thy words I woo Thee to forgive, and not he bitter to Such as (thou... | |
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My Life they prize at such a slender rate That in my absence they draw Bills of hate To prove the King a Traitor to the State. 
