Memoirs of the Court of England: From the Revolution in 1688 to the Death of George the Second, Band 2Richard Bentley, 1843 |
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... beauty and foppish habits.— His extraordinary popularity with the fair sex . - His success as a gambler . - Fantastic liveries of his servants . - Portraits of him by the three great Artists of the day . His first wife , daughter and ...
... beauty and foppish habits.— His extraordinary popularity with the fair sex . - His success as a gambler . - Fantastic liveries of his servants . - Portraits of him by the three great Artists of the day . His first wife , daughter and ...
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... beauty and intelligence . - Neglected and insulted by her hus- band . Count Coningsmark's avowed admiration of her . - Indignation of her father - in - law .-- Imprisoned in the Castle of ― - Alden . Divorced from her husband in 1694 ...
... beauty and intelligence . - Neglected and insulted by her hus- band . Count Coningsmark's avowed admiration of her . - Indignation of her father - in - law .-- Imprisoned in the Castle of ― - Alden . Divorced from her husband in 1694 ...
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... Sophia Dorothea married in 1706 to Frederick William , King of Prussia . - Her beauty - - - - and intelligence . Her husband's brutal treatment of her . -- - -Her death in 1757 . Page 302 MELESINA . DUCHESS OF KENDAL . - - ― - CONTENTS .
... Sophia Dorothea married in 1706 to Frederick William , King of Prussia . - Her beauty - - - - and intelligence . Her husband's brutal treatment of her . -- - -Her death in 1757 . Page 302 MELESINA . DUCHESS OF KENDAL . - - ― - CONTENTS .
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... beauty and accomplishments . - Extracts from the Suffolk Correspondence . - Pope's admiration of the young beauty . His moonlight walk with her in the gardens at Hampton Court , and letter on the subject . His poetical address to Miss ...
... beauty and accomplishments . - Extracts from the Suffolk Correspondence . - Pope's admiration of the young beauty . His moonlight walk with her in the gardens at Hampton Court , and letter on the subject . His poetical address to Miss ...
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... beauty was probably always of the scornful kind . Lord Lansdowne writes , in his " Progress of Beauty , " - Soft and delicious as a southern sky , Are Dashwood's smiles ; -when Darnley frowns we die . The Duchess appears to have ...
... beauty was probably always of the scornful kind . Lord Lansdowne writes , in his " Progress of Beauty , " - Soft and delicious as a southern sky , Are Dashwood's smiles ; -when Darnley frowns we die . The Duchess appears to have ...
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Seite 222 - Some natural tears he dropped, but wiped them soon : The world was all before him, where to choose His place of rest, and Providence his guide.
Seite 376 - Lepell) walked with me three or four hours by moonlight, and we met no creature of any quality but the king, who gave audience to the vicechamberlain, all alone, under the garden wall.
Seite 102 - I think Mr. St. John the greatest - -young man I ever knew; wit, capacity, beauty, quickness of apprehension, good learning, and an excellent taste; the best orator in the house of commons, admirable conversation, good nature, and good manners; generous, and a despiser of money.
Seite 361 - What? that thing of silk, Sporus, that mere white curd of ass's milk? Satire or sense, alas ! can Sporus feel? Who breaks a butterfly upon a wheel?
Seite 332 - Horace; when I aimed at being facetious, I quoted Martial; and when I had a mind to be a fine gentleman, I talked Ovid. I was convinced that none but the ancients had common sense; that the classics contained everything that was either necessary, useful, or ornamental to men; and I was not without thoughts of wearing the toga virilis of the Romans, instead of the vulgar and illiberal dress of the moderns.
Seite 213 - O Lord, thou knowest how busy I must be this day. If I forget thee, do not thou forget me," And with that rose up and cried, "March on, boys!
Seite 397 - Then you shall see her,' cried he; and, in the gaiety of the moment, sent orders home to have her finely dressed, and brought to him at the tavern; where she was received with acclamations, her...
Seite 410 - tis true — this truth you lovers know — In vain my structures rise, my gardens grow, In vain fair Thames reflects the double scenes Of hanging mountains, and of sloping greens: Joy lives not here; to happier seats it flies, And only dwells where Wortley casts her eyes.
Seite 162 - There St. John mingles with my friendly bowl The feast of reason and the flow of soul...
Seite 412 - Pope,' insinuating that I was whipped in Ham Walks on Thursday last : — -This is to give notice, that I did not stir out of my house at Twickenham on that day ; and the same is a malicious and ill-founded report. — AP...