 | R. B. Parker, Sheldon P. Zitner - 1996 - 340 pages
...Griffith to rebalance her own hostile account of Wolsey with some of his virtues and genuine achievements: 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... | |
 | Stuart Sherman - 1996 - 352 pages
...addressed by Katherine to Griffith himself, who has just given her a moving account of the death of Wolsey: After my death I wish no other herald, No other speaker...from corruption, But such an honest chronicler as Griffith.33 Johnson, misremembering the line as he applies its praise to Boswell, substitutes "faithful"... | |
 | 1984 - 444 pages
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 | James Boswell - 1998 - 1540 pages
...possession they are, will favour the world with them. JAMES BOSfTELL. 'After my death I wish no otter herald, 'No other speaker of my living actions, 'To...from corruption, 'But such an honest chronicler as Griffith.'1 SHAKSPEARE, Henry Vlll. £Act IV. Sc. 2.] 1 See Dr. Johnson's letter to Mrs. Thrale, dated... | |
 | Kevin Hart - 1999 - 254 pages
...point is quietly made, just before the Life begins, in four lines quoted from Shakespeare's Henry VIII: 'After my death I wish no other herald, 'No other...corruption, 'But such an honest chronicler as Griffith.' (Life, 1, 24) The kind of honesty valued here demands a certain relationship with death. In order to... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 2008 - 246 pages
...little . And to add greater honours to his age Than man could give him, he died fearing God. KATHERINE After my death I wish no other herald, No other speaker of my living actions 70 To keep mine honour from corruption But such an honest chronicler as Griffith. Whom I most hated... | |
 | Adam Sisman - 2000 - 424 pages
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 | 1984 - 468 pages
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