 | Albert Stratford George Canning - 1903 - 514 pages
...trial when he suddenly fell ill, and entering the Abbey at Leicester, thus addressed the Abbot: "O ! father abbot; An old man, broken with the storms of...bones among ye ; Give him a little earth for charity," and soon died in that place of refuge. His career is nobly and accurately described by Dr Johnson's... | |
 | Helen Josephine Robins - English language - 1903 - 340 pages
...for, Echo round his bones for evermore." TENNYSON, Ode on the Death of the Duke of Wellington. 6. " An old man broken with the storms of state, Is come...bones among ye, Give him a little earth for charity." King Henry VIII., iv. 2. 7. Gloucester. "Ay, all of you have laid your heads together And all to make... | |
 | John Alexander Joyce - Shakespeare in fiction, drama, poetry, etc - 1904 - 362 pages
...physical and religious ambition. Listen and profit by the last words of the old, ruined Cardinal : "O, Father Abbot, An old man, broken with the storms of...bones among ye; Give him a little earth for charity! I have touched the highest point of all my greatness And, from that full meridian of my glory, I haste... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Recitations - 1904 - 236 pages
...could not sit his mule. KATH. Alas ! poor man. GRIF. At last, with easy roads, he came to Leicester ; Lodg'd in the abbey, where the reverend abbot, With...honourably receiv'd him : To whom he gave these words : " O ! father abbot, An old man, broken with the storms of state, Is come to lay his weary bones among... | |
 | Edward Sylvester Ellis - World history - 1905 - 410 pages
...ill, and tottered into the Abbey of Leicester 10 die. Well has Shakespeare shown him as saying: " О Father Abbot, An old man, broken with the storms of...bones among ye : Give him a little earth for charity ! " A new ministry was formed in October, 1529, in which, for the first time, the highest places were... | |
 | George Crabbe - English poetry - 1906 - 532 pages
...flood, and field ; Of being taken by [the] insolent foe And sold to slavery. Othello, Aft I. Scene 3. An old man, broken with the storms of [state], Is...among [ye] ; Give him a little earth for charity. Hmn nil. Aft IV. Scene i. TALE II. THE PARTING HOUR. MINUTELY trace man's life ; year after year, Through... | |
 | Quotations - 1906 - 810 pages
...man y' spares thes stones, And curst be he y' moves my bones.' SHAKESPEARE, Inscription over His Tomb An old man, broken with the storms of state. Is come...bones among ye; Give him a little earth for charity! SHAKESPEARE, King Henry VIII, iv, 2 Thy bones are marrowless, thy blood is cold; Thou hast no speculation... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1908 - 206 pages
...Leicester ; Lodged in the Abbey, where the reverend Abbot, With all his convent, honourably received him : To whom he gave these words, — ' 0 father...charity ! ' So went to bed, where eagerly his sickness Pursued him still ; and three nights after this, — About the hour of eight, which he himself Foretold... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1908 - 204 pages
...reverend Abbot, With all his convent, honourably received him : To whom he gave these words, — ' O father Abbot, An old man, broken with the storms of...charity ! ' So went to bed, where eagerly his sickness Pursued him still ; and three nights after this, — About the hour of eight, which he himself Foretold... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1908 - 380 pages
...abbot, With all his covent, honourably received him ; To whom he gave these words, "O father abbot, «o An old man, broken with the storms of state, Is come...charity!" So went to bed ; where eagerly his sickness Pursued him still ; and three nights after this, About the hour of eight, which he himself Foretold... | |
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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... 
