| Edward Jesse - Windsor (Berkshire, England) - 1841 - 208 pages
...Charles the Second, to nominate a member for the borough of Appleby, she wrote to him as follows : — " I have been bullied by an usurper, I have been neglected...dictated to by a subject : your man sha'n't stand." VANDYKE, BY HIMSELF. — This is a painting full of force and energy, well worthy of so great a master.... | |
| Literature - 1841 - 500 pages
...too." he applied to her to nominate a member for the borough of Appleby: " I have been bullied by a usurper, I have been neglected by a court, but I will...dictated to by a subject: your man sha'n't stand. " ANN DORSET, "PEMBROKE ANP MONTGOMERY." It is reported of Montgomery that he was so illiterate that... | |
| Lake District (England) - 1842 - 212 pages
...borough of Appleby, is well known. — " I have been bullied by an usurper, I have been neglected br a Court, but I will not be dictated to by a subject,— your man shanst stand." See the interesting life of Lady Anne Clifford in Hartley Coleridge's Northern Worthies.... | |
| William Goodman - Great Britain - 1843 - 342 pages
...for her borough of Appleby, she sent him word, " I have been bullied by a usurper, slighted by the court, but I will not be dictated to by a subject : your man shan't stand." The mother and maids of George Abbot, with eight men, defended Caldecot Hall, in Warwickshire, successfully... | |
| Thomas Roscoe - Wales - 1844 - 514 pages
...wishing to name a candidate to her for the borough of Appleby ; he received the following reply: — " I have been bullied by an usurper — I have been...shan't stand. " ANNE DORSET, PEMBROKE AND MONTGOMERY." Of this pithy and laconic letter-writer Dr. Donne remarked, that " in her younger years she knew well... | |
| Louisa Stuart Costello - Great Britain - 1844 - 450 pages
...known and frequently cited. Its brief eloquence is unrivalled : " I have been bullied by' an usurper, neglected by a Court, but I will not be dictated to by a subject. Your man shan't stand."* Evelyn, in his Diary, gives the following account of Sir Joseph Williamson : " July 22, 1674. — I... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1844 - 542 pages
...member for the horough of Appleby, in Westmorland : — " I have been bultied by an usurper, I have heen neglected by a court, but I will not be dictated to by a subject. \our man sha'n't stand, etc. etc. etc." AKKE. A4 \. The next step was to allow tiberty of conscience... | |
| 1844 - 320 pages
...Charles the Second, to nominate a member for the borough of Appleby, she wrote to him as follows :— " I have been bullied by an usurper, I have been neglected by a court, hut I will not be dictated to by a subject : your man sha'.i't stand." VANDYKE, by himself. This is... | |
| James Phippen - Tunbridge Wells (England) - 1844 - 410 pages
...least of it. It is a pity it is borough of Appleby : — " I have b*»en bullied by an Usurper ; 1 have been neglected by a Court ; but I will not be dictated to by » subject. Your man sha'nt stand ! ANN, " Dorset, Pembroke, and Montgomery." not known whose likeness... | |
| John Barrow - Great Britain - 1845 - 540 pages
...to her a member for the borough of Appleby, she returned this resolute and spirited answer : — " I have been bullied by an usurper ; I have been neglected...sha'n't stand. " ANNE DORSET, PEMBROKE AND MONTGOMERY-" As she had lived highly respected, so she died, at an advanced age, deeply lamented. SIR WILLIAM MONSON.... | |
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