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" After my death I wish no other herald, No other speaker of my living actions, To keep mine honour from corruption, But such an honest chronicler as Griffith. "
The Life of Samuel Johnson: Comprehending an Account of His Studies and ... - Page xxxvi
by James Boswell - 1822 - 1847 pages
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Dictionary of Classified Quotations: From Authors of All Nations and Periods ...

Sir William Gurney Benham - 1921 - 696 pages
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The Scottish Historical Review, Volume 18

James Maclehose - 1921 - 358 pages
...had kept a diary, as his custom was, of which Johnson in one of his letters to Mrs. Thrale says : ' Boswell writes a regular journal of our travels which I think contains as much of what I say and do as of all other occurrences together.' From the Journal itself, as published,...
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The Scottish Historical Review, Volume 18

James Maclehose - 1921 - 372 pages
...had kept a diary, as his custom was, of which Johnson in one of his letters to Mrs. Thrale says : ' Boswell writes a regular journal of our travels which I think contains as much of what I say and do as of all other occurrences together.' From the Journal itself, as published,...
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The Cryptography of Shakespeare ...

Walter Arensberg - 1922 - 314 pages
...gartered acrostic appears in the following passage from Henry the Eight, Act IV, Scene II, lines 69-72: After my death, I wish no other Herald, No other speaker of my liuing Actions, To keepe mine Honor, from Corruption, But such an honest Chronicler as Griffith. Consider...
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The Newspaper and the Historian

Lucy Maynard Salmon - 1923 - 640 pages
...Register had as the motto for the issues of its first volume a passage from Shakespeare's Henry VIII : "I wish no other herald, "No other speaker of my living actions, "To keep mine honor from corruption "But such an honest chronicler." With the second volume, it changes to "Haec...
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Shakespeare's Historical Plays, Poems & Sonnets

William Shakespeare - 1924 - 906 pages
...little : And, to add greater honours to his age Than man could give him, he died fearing God Kath. After my death I wish no other herald, No other speaker...corruption, But such an honest chronicler as Griffith. Whom I most hated living, thou hast made me, With thy religious truth and modesty, Now in his ashes...
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The Phinizy Family in America

Ferdinand Phinizy Calhoun - 1925 - 276 pages
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The Yale Shakespeare: The life of King Henry the eighth, ed. by J.M. Berdan ...

William Shakespeare - 1925 - 184 pages
...little. And, to add greater honours to his age Than man could give him, he died fearing God. 68 Kath. After my death I wish no other herald, No other speaker...corruption, But such an honest chronicler as Griffith. 72 Whom I most hated living, thou hast made me, With thy religious truth and modesty, Now in his ashes...
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Wilderness House

Foxhall Daingerfield - 1928 - 288 pages
...nights when all is golden and the air pierced by the sweet cry of a whippoorwill. He was most princely , After my death I wish no other herald, No other speaker of my living actions To keep mine honor from corruption. And more often from Pope : Honor and shame from no condition rise; Act well...
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The Swan Shakespeare: A Player's Edition, Volume 3

William Shakespeare - 1930 - 994 pages
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