 the innocency of childhood, the beauty of youth, the solidity of middle, the gravity of old age, and all at eighteen ; the birth of a princess, the learning of a clerk, the life of a saint, yet the death of a malefactor, for her parent's offences.  Our own country, descriptive, historical, pictorial - Page 27by Our own country - 1878Full view - About this book
 | Sir Egerton Brydges - Great Britain - 1790 - 466 pages
...12, 1553-4. " She had, (fays Fuller,). the innocency of childhood, the beauty of youth, the folidity of middle, the gravity of old age, and all at eighteen : the birth of a IVincefs, the learning of a Clerk, the life of a Saint, yet the death of a malefaftor for her parents... | |
 | Horace Walpole - English literature - 1806 - 428 pages
...and with all these rare endowments, was of a mild, humble, and modest spirit. Fuller adds 4 , that she had the " innocency of childhood, the beauty of...princess, the learning of a clerk, the life of a saint, yet the death of a malefactor for her parents' offences." Ascham, who was queen Elizabeth's languagemaster,... | |
 | Francis Charles Laird - 1822 - 414 pages
...chiefest men in the universities." Fox, in his character of her in his Acts and Monuments, also says that she had the innocency of childhood, the beauty of...princess, the learning of a clerk, the life of a saint, yet the death of a malefactor for her parents' offences. He adds, " I confess I never read of any canonized... | |
 | Ida Ashworth Taylor - Great Britain - 1822 - 414 pages
...co.^.,), — «YWv-1us< i/-*"~i ^ ei -u ments, also says that! she had the inaocency ot cnild^ hood, the beauty of youth, the solidity of middle, the gravity...princess, the learning of a clerk, the life of a saint, yet the death of a malefactor for her parents' offences. )He adds, " I confess I never read of any... | |
 | Reuben Percy - Anecdotes - 1826 - 440 pages
...learning, was scarcely ever equalled in any age or country. As Fuller justly observes, she united " the innocency of childhood, the beauty of youth, the solidity of middle life, and the gravity of old age. She had the birth of a princess, the learning of a divine, and the... | |
 | Andrew Bloxam - 1829 - 104 pages
...historian Fuller, who lived about a century after her, sums up her character in these few words : " She had the innocency of childhood, the " beauty of youth, the solidity of middle, the gra" vity of old age, and all at eighteen ; the birth of a " princess, the learning of a clerk, the... | |
 | Mary Roberts - 1829 - 414 pages
...Thus fell this accomplished lady in the bloom of life, who, as Fuller has justly observed, " united the innocency of childhood, the beauty of youth, the solidity of middle life, and the gravity of old age, in her eighteenth year. She had the birth of a princess, the learning... | |
 | John Bayley - London - 1830 - 664 pages
...women in England, but gave the preference to the lady Jane ; and Fuller adds,8 respecting her, that she had " the innocency of childhood, the beauty of youth, the solidity of the middle, the gravity of old age, and all at eighteen ; the birth of a princess, the learning of... | |
 | Royal Robbins - 1831 - 750 pages
...Chaloner, that she was well versed in Hebrew, Chaldee, Arabic, French, and Italian. Fuller adds, that she had " the innocency of childhood, the beauty of...princess, the learning of a clerk, the life of a saint, yet the death of a malefactor, for her parent's offences." 22. Elizabeth succeeded to the throne, on... | |
 | English literature - 1840 - 676 pages
...the emphatic words of Fuller : — s " And thus," he says, " died this excellent lady, who possessed the innocency of childhood, the beauty of youth, the solidity of middle life and the gravity of old age and all at seventeen. Her birth," continues he, " was that of a princess,... | |
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