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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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Histories, Vol. 2: Volume 2; Introduction by Tony Tanner

William Shakespeare - 1994 - 774 pages
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Elizabethan Theater: Essays in Honor of S. Schoenbaum

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...
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Telling Time: Clocks, Diaries, and English Diurnal Form, 1660-1785

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"...
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Shakespearean Criticism: Excerpts from the Criticism of William ..., Volume 41

1984 - 444 pages
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Life of Johnson

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...
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Samuel Johnson and the Culture of Property

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...
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Shakespeare's Late Plays: New Readings

Jennifer Richards, James Knowles - 1999 - 274 pages
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The Oxford Shakespeare: King Henry VIII: or All is True

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...
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Boswell's Presumptuous Task

Adam Sisman - 2000 - 424 pages
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Shakespearean Criticism: Excerpts from the Criticism of William ..., Volume 56

1984 - 468 pages
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