Mary Boleyn/sister%e2%80%99s Rise To Power

Famous quotes containing the words boleyn, rise and/or power:

“Toll on, thou passing bell;
Ring out my doleful knell;”
—George Boleyn (d. 1536)

“May not the complaint, that common people are above their station, often take its rise in the fact of uncommon people being below theirs?”
—Charles Dickens (1812–1870)

“‘Tis not such lines as almost crack the stage
When Bajazet begins to rage;
Nor a tall met’phor in the bombast way,
Nor the dry chips of short-lunged Seneca.
Nor upon all things to obtrude
And force some odd similitude.
What is it then, which like the power divine
We only can by negatives define?”
—Abraham Cowley (1618–1667)