 | Victoria (Queen of Great Britain) - Princes - 1867 - 392 pages
...than your dear letter. I had, when I learnt your decision, almost the feeling of old Simeon : 'Now lettest thou thy servant depart in peace.' Your choice...arrangement — I feared that it would not happen. agreeable ' inteVieur.' And I am much deceived (which I think I am not), or you will find in Albert... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1867 - 698 pages
...than your dear letter. I had, when I learnt your decision, almost the feeling of old Simeon, " Now lettest thou thy servant depart in peace." Your choice...what might and would be best for your happiness.' Throughout the English nation there was the same full approval of the step the Queen was taking. On... | |
 | Victoria (Queen of Great Britain) - Princes - 1868 - 410 pages
...than your dear letter. I had, when I learnt your decision, almost the feeling of old Simeon: ' Now lettest thou thy servant depart in peace.' Your choice...to bring about as being the best plan one could fix upon—the maximum of a good arrangement—I feared that it would not happen. agreeable ' inte'rieur.'... | |
 | Samuel Wilberforce - 1874 - 374 pages
...thy servant depart * Schiller's ' Lied von der Glocke,' always a special favourite with the Prince. in peace." Your choice has been for these last years...what might and would be best for your happiness.' Throughout the English nation there was the same full approval of the step the Queen was taking. On... | |
 | sir Theodore Martin - 1875 - 564 pages
...writes (24th October, 1839), 'when I learned your decision, almost the feeling of old Simeon : " Xow lettest Thou thy servant depart in peace." Your choice...of what might and would be best for your happiness. ... In your position, which may and will perhaps become in future even more difficult in a political... | |
 | Sir Theodore Martin - 1875 - 566 pages
...writes (24th October, 1839), 'when I learned your decision, almost the feeling of old Simeon : " Xow lettest Thou thy servant depart in peace." Your choice...of what might and would be best for your happiness. ... In your position, which may and will perhaps become in future even more difficult in a political... | |
 | Theodore Martin - Great Britain - 1875 - 446 pages
...writes (24th October, 1839), « when I learned your decision, almost the feeling of old Simeon: "Now lettest Thou thy servant depart in peace." Your choice...of what might and would be best for your happiness. . . . In. your position, which may and will perhaps become in future even more difficult in a political... | |
 | Theodore Martin - Great Britain - 1875 - 464 pages
...writes (24th October, 1839), ' when I learned your decision, almost the feeling of old Simeon : " Now lettest Thou thy servant depart in peace." Your choice...of what might and would be best for your happiness. ... In your position, which may and will perhaps become in future even more difficult in a political... | |
 | sir Theodore Martin - 1875 - 576 pages
...writes (24th October, 1839), 'when I learned your decision, almost the feeling of old Simeon : " Now lettest Thou thy servant depart in peace." Your choice...of what might and would be best for your happiness. ... In your position, which may and will perhaps become in future even more 40 BETROTHAL. 1839 difficult... | |
 | 1882 - 362 pages
...was sent to the Queen. " I had, when I learned your decision, almost the feeling of old Simeon, 'Now lettest thou thy servant depart in peace.' Your choice...last years, my conviction of what might and would be the best for your happiness. ... In your position, which may, and will, perhaps, become in future even... | |
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Your choice has been for these last years my conviction of what might and would be best for your happiness... 
