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"Northern Tour." The same author observes, that "the death of Wolsey would make a fine moral picture, if the hand of any master could give the pallid features of the dying statesman, that chagrin, that remorse, those pangs of anguish, which, in the last bitter moments of his life, possessed him. The point might be taken when the monks are administering the comforts of religion, which the despairing prelate cannot feel. The subject requires a gloomy apartment, which a ray through a Gothic window might just enlighten, throwing its force chiefly on the principal figure, and dying away on the rest. The appendages of the piece need only be few and simple; little more than the crozier and red hat to mark the cardinal and tell the story."
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Stow's "Annals," p. 557, edit. 1615.
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Shakspeare introduces this memorable saying of the cardinal into his play of "Henry the Eighth:"—
—"O Cromwell, Cromwell,
Had I but serv'd my God with half the zeal
I serv'd my king, he would not in mine age
Have left me naked to mine enemies."
Footnote 5: [(return)]
Stow's "Annals."
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Holinshed's "Chronicle," vol. iii. p. 765, edit. 1808.
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"Collectanea," vol i. p. 70.
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Tanner.
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For the particulars of which, see Knolle's "history of the Turks."
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Azrael, in the Mahometan creed, the angel of death.
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The present portion is only the first volume. The Memoirs are to be completed in four volumes, to form part of the series of Autobiographical Memoirs, published by Messrs. Hunt and Clarke, and decidedly one of the most attractive works that that has lately issued from the press. As we intend to notice this collection at some future time, we can only, for the present, spare room for this direction of the reader's attention—for the design deserves well of the public; and if the success be proportioned fro its merits, it will be great indeed.