Lives of the Princesses of Wales, Band 2Remington and Company, 1883 |
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Seite 269 - Pray, madam, let this farce be played. The Archbishop will act it very well. You may bid him be as short as you will. It will do the Queen no hurt, no more than any good; and it will satisfy all the wise and good fools, who will call us all atheists if we don't pretend to be as great fools as they are.
Seite 100 - Did any twinge of remorse, any pang of painful recollection, pierce at that moment the incense of glory which she was inhaling? Did any vision flit across her of a sad mourning figure which once had stood where she was standing, now desolate, neglected, sinking into the darkening twilight of a life cut short by sorrow ? Who can tell ? At such a time, that figure would have weighed heavily upon a noble mind, and a wise mind would have been taught by the thought of it, that although life be fleeting...
Seite 72 - And with that she took my lord by the hand and led him into her privy chamber with the other Cardinal, where they were in long communication. We in the other chamber might sometime hear the Queen speak very loud, but what it was we could not understand.
Seite 193 - That the Duchess of Queensberry is surprised and well pleased that the King hath given her so agreeable a command as to stay from Court, where she never came for diversion, but to bestow a great civility on the King and Queen...
Seite 269 - Come and see yourself, my good Sir Robert"; and then carried him to the Queen's bedside. The interview was short, but what the Queen said was material, for these were her words : "My good Sir Robert, you see me in a very indifferent situation, I have nothing to say to you, but to recommend the King, my children, and the kingdom to your care.
Seite 199 - She was at least seven or eight hours te'te-a-tete with the King every day, during which time she was generally saying what she did not think, assenting to what she did not believe, and praising what she did not approve...
Seite 71 - Forsooth, then,' quoth my lord, ' madam, if it please your grace, we come both to know your mind, how ye be disposed to do in this matter between the king and you ; and also to declare secretly our opinions and our counsel unto you, which we have intended of very zeal and obedience that we bear to your grace.
Seite 180 - The dress of the Queen on this occasion was as fine as the accumulated riches of the City and suburbs could make it ; for besides her own jewels (which were a great number and very valuable) she had on her head and on her shoulders all the pearls she could borrow of the ladies of quality at one end of the town, and on her petticoat all the diamonds she could hire 1 of the Jews and jewellers at the other...
Seite 259 - My dear Lord, I will give it you under my hand, if ' you are in any fear of my relapsing, that my, dear firstborn is ' the greatest ass, and the greatest liar, and the greatest canaille, ' and the greatest beast in the whole world ; and that I- most '• heartily wish he was out of it...
Seite 205 - Walking, chaises, leve'es, and audiences fill the morning. At night the King plays at commerce and backgammon, and the Queen at quadrille, where poor Lady Charlotte runs her usual nightly gauntlet, the Queen pulling her hood, and the Princess Royal rapping her knuckles.