Excerpt from Mary Tudor: An Historical Drama in Two Parts, and Sonnets His political sonnets were in part inspired by a deeply-rooted chivalrous sentiment, by his devotion to monarchical and ecclesiastical institutions, and by his reverence for the past but they illustrate not less forcibly the compatibility of the most zealous loyalty with a genuine love of liberty, and breathe the spirit of an age when no one supposed the regal and the popular principles to be at variance, and when nobility stood remote from exclusiveness. This will be seen at once by one who compares his sonnets on Charles I. And James II. With those entitled the Liberty of the Press, and The True Basis of Power. Like Burke, if he hated J acobinism, he hated despotism and oppression no less. Some would have called him a moderate Tory, but he found no party with which he was in general sympathy. He was too much of the old Cavalier to be a No Popery and Protectionist Tory; and as little did he admire such Spurious Liberalism as plunders churches to endow a schoo and places its faith in a ballot tempered by secular education. By education he understood that which, by whatever means, develops the humaniillgunlu. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.