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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 Poems of the Vita Nuova and Convito of Dante Alighieri - Page clxxix
by Dante Alighieri - 1842 - 136 pages
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Punch, Volume 83

1882 - 324 pages
...Rational Gallery. PUNCH'S FANCY PORTRAITS.-No. 116. M JA FROUDE. CarlyU's Speaking Likeness (grimly)— "AFTER MY DEATH I WISH NO OTHER HERALD, No OTHER SPEAKER OF Mr LIVING ACTIONS, TO KKEP MINK HONOUR FROM CORRUPTION, BUT 8DOH AN HONEST CHRONICLER A8— FfiOUDE....
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The Works of William Shakespeare: The Text Formed from an Entirely ..., Volume 5

William Shakespeare - 1842 - 628 pages
...quotes) support the modern punctuation : — '• This cardinal was a man undoubtedly born to honour." But such an honest chronicler as Griffith. Whom I...modesty, Now in his ashes honour. Peace be with him ! — Patience, be near me still ; and set me lower : I have not long to trouble thee. — Good Griffith,...
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The Works of William Shakspeare: The Text Formed from an Intirely ..., Volume 5

William Shakespeare - 1842 - 634 pages
...little : And, to add greater honours to his age Than man could give him, he died fearing God. Kath. After my death I wish no other herald, No other speaker...living actions, To keep mine honour from corruption, * Was fashion'd to much honour from his eradle.] The old copies introduce a period after " honour,"...
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Wilderness House

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...
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Shakespeare Lexicon and Quotation Dictionary: A Complete ..., Volume 1

Alexander Schmidt, Gregor Sarrazin - 1971 - 782 pages
...this c. Caes. IV, 3, 15. с. in the place! Lr. Ill, 6, 58. 3) perversion, false representation: / wish no other speaker of my living actions, to keep mine honour from с. H8 IV, 2, 71. their virtues else shall in the general censure take c. from that particular fault,...
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Antiquity Forgot: Essays on Shakespeare, Bacon and Rembrandt

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...
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Beyond Tragedy: Structure & Experience in Shakespeare's Romances, Volume 10

Robert W. Uphaus - 1981 - 172 pages
...weaknesses of Wolsey's character in such a way that Katherine concludes: "Whom I most hated living, thou has made me, / With thy religious truth and modesty, / Now in his ashes honor" (73-75). This change of estimate is in itself significant, for the fall of Katherine both absorbs...
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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...religious truth and modesty, Now in his ashes honour: . . . (4.2.69-75; italics added)8 The Chronicles give no specific mandate for this statement of Katherine...
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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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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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