 | Ebenezer Cobham Brewer - 2004 - 592 páginas
...in agony. — Rev. W. Webster, A Pyrenean Legend (1877). Served My God. WOLSEY said, in his fall, " Had I but served my God with half the zeal I served my king, He would not in mine age have left me naked to mine enemies." — Shakespeare, Henry VIII. act iii. sc. 2 (1601).... | |
 | Linda Anderson - 2005 - 356 páginas
...contrast between service to God and monarch is Cardinal Wolsey's lament to his protege Thomas Cromwell: "Had I but served my God with half the zeal / I served my king, he would not in mine age / Have left me naked to mine enemies" (Henry VIII 3.2.456-58). Since service to the king... | |
 | Eli Wallach - 2005 - 332 páginas
...his face as he leaned heavily against me. His voice rose in an anguished cry. "O Cromwell, Cromwell! Had I but served my God with half the zeal I served my king, he would not in mine age have left me naked to mine enemies." Suddenly, the stage manager stuck his head out of... | |
 | James Fenimore Cooper - 2006 - 518 páginas
...time, however, all of these persons of mistaken ambition come to exclaim, with Shakspeare's Wolsey"Had I but served my God with half the zeal I served my king, he would not in mine age Have left me naked to mine enemies." Waally's power, already tottering through the influence... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 2011 - 355 páginas
...Cromwell, I charge thee, fling away ambition! By that sin fell the angels. . . . [Wolsey— 3.2.520-21] Had I but served my God with half the zeal I served my king, He would not in mine age Have left me naked to mine enemies. [Wolsey— 3.2.535-537] He was a scholar, and a ripe... | |
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Cromwell, Cromwell, Had I but served my God with half the zeal I served my king, he would not in mine age Have left me naked to mine enemies. 
