 | James Spedding - Great Britain - 1878 - 730 pages
...and whether he would stand to it or no ; who presently returned with his answer : — -" My Lords, it is my act, my hand, my heart. I beseech your Lordships, be merciful to a broken reed." The next was to move the King to sequester the seal ; who at once commissioned the... | |
 | Homer Baxter Sprague - English literature - 1874 - 462 pages
...visit him and aek whether it was his own hand that was subscribed to the confession. lie replied, " It. is my act, my hand, my heart, I beseech your lordships, be merciful to a broken reed." He was fined £40,000, and sentenced to be Imprisoned in the Tower during the king's... | |
 | George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana - Encyclopedias - 1879 - 836 pages
...deputation of the lords being appointed to wait on him, to ask if the confession was his, he said : " It is my act, my hand, my heart. I beseech your lordships, be merciful to a broken reed." His humiliation was complete, and his spirit was crushed within him. He hoped that... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1880 - 668 pages
...degradation of such a name might well have softened the most obdurate natures. " My Lords," said Bacon, "it is my act, my hand, my heart. I beseech your Lordships to be merciful to a broken reed." They withdrew ; and he again retired to his chamber in the deepest... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay (baron [essays]) - English essays - 1881 - 386 pages
...degradation of such a name might well have softened the most obdurate natures. "My Lords,'' said Bacon, "it is my act, my hand, my heart. I beseech your Lordships to be merciful to a broken reed." They withdrew ; and he again retired to his chamber in the deepest... | |
 | Alfred Hix Welsh - English language - 1882 - 1108 pages
...said he to the deputies who came to inquire whether the confession was really subscribed by himself, 'it is my act, my hand, my heart. I beseech your lordships to be merciful to a broken reed.' He had none of the fire of sentiment or passion, — none of the... | |
 | Benjamin G. Lovejoy - 1883 - 304 pages
...makes a more definite one, which is presented by Prince Charles; committee wait on him: "My Lords, it is my act, my hand, my heart. I beseech your Lordships be merciful to a broken reed ; " convicted nemtne dissentiente ; sentenced, the favorite alone voting in the negative;... | |
 | 1883 - 614 pages
...were sent to York House to ask whether he had signed it with his owu hand. He answered — ' My Lords, it is my act, my hand, my heart ; I beseech your Lordships to be merciful to a broken reed.' They left him, full of pity, but as a judgment pronounced by the... | |
 | Richard William Church - Philosophers, Modern - 1884 - 252 pages
...confession he made. "My Lords," he said, to those who were sent to ask whether he would stand to it, "it is my act, my hand, my heart. I beseech your Lordships be merciful to a broken reed." This was of course followed by a request to the King from the House to " sequester... | |
 | Francis Bacon - English essays - 1884 - 474 pages
...signature affixed to the paper they exhibited to him was his. He passionately exclaimed : " My lords, it is my act, my hand, my heart. I beseech your lordships to be merciful to a broken reed." The committee withdrew, overwhelmed with grief at the sight of such... | |
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it is my act, my hand, my heart. I beseech your Lordships to be merciful to a broken reed. 
