 | John Drinkwater - 1927 - 266 pages
...saw him riding in Hampton Park, and "before I came to him, as he rode at the head of his Lifeguard, I saw and felt a waft of death go forth against him." Four days later Oliver was with difficulty taken back to Whitehall, in a high fever. A strange hush... | |
 | G. R. Stirling Taylor - 1928 - 376 pages
...end. On August 6 she died; and when George Fox saw the Protector, on August 20, riding in Hyde Park at the head of his Life Guards, "I saw and felt a waft of death go forth against him and when I came to him he looked like a dead man." Cromwell was clearly very ill, some kind of ague,... | |
 | 1899 - 908 pages
...Fox, favoring the fullest freedom of worship for the Quakers. " Before I came to him," said Fox, " I saw and felt a waft of death go forth against him." While tossing on his bed he repined for the dear Elizabeth ; and then his thoughts swept back to Robert,... | |
 | 1911 - 858 pages
...was just before Oliver's death. I met him riding into Hampton Court Park, and before I came to him I saw and felt a waft of death go forth against him; and when I came to him he looked like a dead man. After I had laid the sufferings of Friends before... | |
 | Douglas Van Steere - 1984 - 354 pages
...riding into Hampton-Court Park, and before I came at him he was riding in the head of his life-guard, I saw and felt a waft of death go forth against him, and he looked like a dead man. When I had spoken to him of the suffering of Friends and warned him... | |
 | Antonia Fraser - 2001 - 796 pages
...again hoping to reason with him on religious matters and saw Oliver attended by his lifeguards. "And I saw and felt a waft of death go forth against him," he wrote, "that he looked like a dead man." Fox was not able to have one of his contentious conversations... | |
 | Carl Zimmer - 2004 - 382 pages
...people. He met the Lord Protector riding at Hampton Court. "Before I came to him," Fox later remembered, "I saw and felt a waft of death go forth against him, and when I came to him he looked like a dead man." Cromwell soon came down with pneumonia and died... | |
 | George Fox, Norman Penney, William Penn - 1962 - 852 pages
...riding into Hampton-Court Park,1 and before I came at him he was riding in the head of his life-guard, I saw and felt a waft of death go forth against him, and he looked like a dead man. When I had spoken to him of the sufferings of Friends and warned him... | |
 | 1920 - 600 pages
...before that great man's death, is familiar to everybody, " As he rode at the head of his life-guard, I saw and felt a waft of death go forth against him ; and when I came to him he looked like a dead man."] Despite his mysticism, Fox was thoroughly practical.... | |
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I saw and felt a waft of death go forth against him ; and when I came to him he looked like a dead man. 
