 | 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... | |
 | Alexander Schmidt, Gregor Sarrazin - 1971 - 782 pages
...this c. Caes. IV, 3, 15. á. in the place! Lr. Ill, 6, 58. 3) perversion, false representation: / wish no other speaker of my living actions, to keep mine honour from á. H8 IV, 2, 71. their virtues else shall in the general censure take c. from that particular fault,... | |
 | Robert Anderson - 696 pages
...transmitted an account to Mrs Thrale. " I keep a book of remarks," he tells her in a letter from Sky, " and 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, "for such a faithful chronicler... | |
 | Howard B. White - 1978 - 176 pages
...honors to his age Than man could give him, he died fearing God. (IV, ii, 67) And Katherine responds: After my death I wish no other herald, No other speaker of my living actions To keep mine honor from corruption, But such an honest chronicler as Griffith . . . Whom I most hated living, thou... | |
 | 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"... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Frederic Hudson - 2000 - 436 pages
...journalism ! Is not every able editor a ruler of the world, being a persuader of it ? Thomas Carlyle. I wish no other herald, No other speaker of my living actions, To keep mine honor from corruption, But such an honest chronicler. Henry VIII., reported by Shakspeare. La presse... | |
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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. 
