 He was born at Pembroke castle, and lieth buried at Westminster, in one of the stateliest and daintiest monuments of Europe, both for the chapel and for the sepulchre. So that he dwelleth more richly dead, in the monument of his tomb, than he did alive...  Knight's Penny Magazine - Page 2371846Full view - About this book
 | Francis Bacon - History - 1998 - 340 pages
...and dying repentant. So as he had an happy warfare in both conflicts, both of sin and the cross. He was born at Pembroke Castle, and lieth buried at Westminster,...the stateliest and daintiest* monuments of Europe, 49 Good-humoured, benign. 50 At its best, most lively. both for the chapel and for the sepulchre.51... | |
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...that we now strive for". . .He was born at Pembroke Castle,and lieth buried at Westminster in oneof the stateliest and daintiest monuments of Europe,...than he did alive in Richmond or any of his palaces. I could wish he did the like in this monument of his fame. (BACON, History of King Hemy VII) Henry... | |
 | Francis Fisher Browne - American literature - 1924 - 686 pages
...be more chiselled or poised with greater certainty than the closing sentences of this history : "He was born at Pembroke Castle, and lieth buried at Westminster,...daintiest monuments of Europe, both for the chapel and the sepulcre. So that he dwelleth more richly dead, in the monument of his tomb, than he did alive... | |
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