The British Prose Writers, Том 24J. Sharpe, 1821 |
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... Louis ; but I am only sir Wil- liam Russel , one of the pages . " The king's last years passed as regularly as clock- work . At nine at night he had cards in the apart- ment of his daughters , the princesses Amelia and Caroline , with ...
... Louis ; but I am only sir Wil- liam Russel , one of the pages . " The king's last years passed as regularly as clock- work . At nine at night he had cards in the apart- ment of his daughters , the princesses Amelia and Caroline , with ...
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... Louis XIV . besieged Lille , the count de Brouai , governor of the place , was so polite as to send a supply of ice every morning for the king's dessert . Louis said one day to the gentleman who brought it , " I am much obliged to M. de ...
... Louis XIV . besieged Lille , the count de Brouai , governor of the place , was so polite as to send a supply of ice every morning for the king's dessert . Louis said one day to the gentleman who brought it , " I am much obliged to M. de ...
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... the language is all in a flutter . His Winter , in imitation of Shakspeare , deserves to be better known . XVII . ARTFUL QUESTION . DOMINICO , the harlequin , going to see Louis XIV . at supper , fixed his eye on a dish of 10 WALPOLIANA .
... the language is all in a flutter . His Winter , in imitation of Shakspeare , deserves to be better known . XVII . ARTFUL QUESTION . DOMINICO , the harlequin , going to see Louis XIV . at supper , fixed his eye on a dish of 10 WALPOLIANA .
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... Louis , penetrating his art , replied , " And the partridges too . " The dish was gold . XVIII . ATHEISM THE OFFSPRING OF FANATICISM . THESE horrible affairs in France are the offspring of fanaticism . Yes , Sir ; if the reformation had ...
... Louis , penetrating his art , replied , " And the partridges too . " The dish was gold . XVIII . ATHEISM THE OFFSPRING OF FANATICISM . THESE horrible affairs in France are the offspring of fanaticism . Yes , Sir ; if the reformation had ...
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... Louis XV . was but a weak man ; and was ruled by his mistress madame de Prye , herself a weak woman . Her portrait , which I have in crayons , seems to confirm the insipidity of her character , but shows that she was beautiful . The ...
... Louis XV . was but a weak man ; and was ruled by his mistress madame de Prye , herself a weak woman . Her portrait , which I have in crayons , seems to confirm the insipidity of her character , but shows that she was beautiful . The ...
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Стр. 28 - Lady Suffolk, then in waiting as woman of the bed-chamber, and of most accurate memory, painted the scene to me exactly. " On one side of the bed stood the godfathers and godmother; on the other side the Prince and the Princess's ladies.
Стр. 9 - This is a strange country,' he remarked afterwards ; 'the first morning after my arrival at St. James's, I looked out of the window, and saw a park with walks, and a canal, which they told me were mine. The next day Lord Chetwynd, the ranger of my park, sent me a fine brace of carp out of my canal ; and I was told I must give five guineas to Lord Chetwynd's servant for bringing me my own carp, out of my own canal, in my own park.
Стр. 13 - Second entrusted the secret to his wife, Queen Caroline, who told it to my father ; but the King was too tender of the honour of his mother to utter it to his mistress, nor did Lady Suffolk ever hear of it till I informed her of it several years afterwards. The disappearance of the Count made his murder suspected, and various reports of the discovery of his body have, of late years, been spread, but not with the authentic circumstances.
Стр. 17 - George the first to take care of his wife, as he would not survive her a year. That oracle was probably dictated to the French Deborah by the duke and duchess of Zell, who might be apprehensive lest the duchess of Kendal should be tempted to remove entirely the obstacle to her conscientious union with their sonin-law. Most Germans are superstitious, even such as have few other impressions of religion. George gave such credit to -the denunciation, that on the eve of his last departure he took leave...
Стр. 105 - Surely no man of seventy-four, unless superannuated, can have the smallest pleasure in sitting at home in his own room, as I always do, and being called by a new name.
Стр. 57 - He had good sense, infinite generosity, and not more oecouomy than was to be expected from a young man of warm passions and such vast expectations. He was modest and diffident too, but could not digest total dependence on a capricious and avaricious grandmother. His sister, lady Bateman, had the intriguing spirit of her father and grandfather, earls of Sunderland. She was connected with Henry Fox, the first lord Holland, and both had great influence over the duke of Marlborough.
Стр. 39 - Her face and person were charming ; lively she was almost to itourderie ; and so agreeable she was, tha.t I never heard her mentioned afterwards by one of her contemporaries who -did not prefer her as the most perfect creature they ever knew.
Стр. 69 - I have the honour to be, with great respect, my Lord, your Lordship's " Most obedient and obliged servant,
Стр. 129 - I not only suppressed the letter while you stayed there, out of delicacy to you, but it was the reason why, out of delicacy to myself, I did not go to see him as you often proposed to me, thinking it wrong to go and make a cordial visit to a man, with a letter in my pocket to laugh at him.
Стр. 60 - She always stopped at Paris, visited the church where lay the unburied body of James, and wept over it. A poor Benedictine of the convent, observing her filial piety, took notice to her Grace that the velvet pall that covered the coffin was become thread-bare, — and so it remained.