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" In days of old here Ampthill's towers were seen, The mournful refuge of an injured queen. Here flow'd her pure, but unavailing tears; Here blinded zeal sustain'd her sinking years. Yet freedom hence her radiant banners waved, And love avenged a realm... "
Handbook for Hertfordshire, Bedfordshire, and Huntingdonshire ... - Page 127
by John Murray (Firm) - 1895 - 279 pages
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Lives of the Queens of England: From the Norman Conquest, Now ..., Volume 2

Agnes Strickland - 1854 - 764 pages
...Walpole : — " In days of old, here AmpthuTs towers were seen, The mournful refuge of an injured queen ; Here flowed her pure but unavailing tears, Here blinded...her sinking years ; Yet freedom hence her radiant banners waved, And Love avenged a realm by priests enslaved; From Katharine's wrongs a nation's bliss...
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Table Traits: With Something on Them

Dr. Doran (John) - 1854 - 562 pages
...light first beam'd from Boleyn's eyes ;" and Horace Walpole harped on the same tune, when he said — " From Catherine's wrongs a nation's bliss was spread, And Luther's light from Henry's lawless bed." Gray and Moss, too, afford instances of like coincidences of sound or sentiment,...
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The National Magazine: Devoted to Literature, Art, and Religion, Volume 8

Abel Stevens, James Floy - 1856 - 602 pages
...first beam'd from Boleyu'e eyee ;' and Horace Wai pole harped on the same tune when he said — " * From Catherine's wrongs a nation's bliss was spread. And Luther's light from Henry's lawless bed/ 92 BOOK NOTICES. Gray and Moss, too, afford instances of like coincidences of...
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Miscellaneous Works, Volume 2

Dr. Doran (John) - 1857 - 530 pages
...light first beam'd from Boleyn's eyes ;" and Horace Walpole harped on the same tune, when he said — " From Catherine's wrongs a nation's bliss was spread, And Luther's light from Henry's lawless bed." Gray and Moss, too, afford instances of like coincidences of sound or sentiment,...
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Vicissitudes of Families: And Other Essays, Volume 1

Bernard Burke - 1860 - 608 pages
...refuge of an injured queen ; Here flowed her pure but unavailing tears, Here blended zeal sustain'd her sinking years ; Yet Freedom hence her radiant...waved, And love avenged a realm by priests enslaved." The castles of Windsor, Wallingford, and Reading, "the haunted towers of Cumnor Hall," and the field...
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Bradshaw's Shilling Handbook of Great Britain and Ireland ...

1860 - 184 pages
...Dunstable Church. There is an inscription to her memory by Horace Walpole, the point of which is — " From Catherine's wrongs a nation's bliss was spread. And Luther's light from Henry's lawless bed." LUTON. Another town of straw -plaiters. The Gothic church, built of chalk and...
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Hidden Sense: Seek and Find, Or, Double Acrostics

E. R. Babington - 1867 - 124 pages
...were seen, The mournful refuge of an injured queen. Here flowed her pure, but unavailing tears ; Her blinded zeal sustained her sinking years ; Yet freedom hence, her radiant banner waved, And love revenged a realm by priests enslaved." 4 " Wasting towns, plantations, meadows, Strewing yonder sea...
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Lives of the Queens of England, from the Norman Conquest, Volume 2

Agnes Strickland, Elisabeth Strickland - 1868 - 690 pages
...Walpole:— " In days of old, here Ampthill's towers were seen. The mournful refuge of an injured queen; Here flowed her pure but unavailing tears, Here blinded...sustained her sinking years; Yet freedom hence her radiant banners waved, And Love avenged a realm by priests enslaved ; From Katharine's wrongs a nation's bliss...
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Ancestral Stories and Traditions of Great Families Illustrative of English ...

John Timbs - 1869 - 584 pages
...Walpole : ' In days of yore, here Ampthill's towers were seen, The mournful refuge of an injured queen ; Here flowed her pure but unavailing tears. Here blinded...sinking years. Yet Freedom hence her radiant banner wav'd, And Love avenged a realm by priests enslav'd : From Catharine's wrongs a nation's bliss was...
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Shakespeare's History of King Henry the Eighth

William Shakespeare - 1872 - 422 pages
...sinking years. Yet Freedom hence her radiant banner wav'd, And Love aveng'da realm by priests enslav'd ; From Catherine's wrongs a nation's bliss was spread, And Luther's light from lawless Henry's bed." Where the princess lay. That is, where she resided. Cf. TN iii. I : " So thou mayst say, the king lies...
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