Famous Women as Described by Famous WritersEsther Singleton Dodd, Mead, 1904 - 344 עמודים |
מהדורות אחרות - הצג הכל
מונחים וביטויים נפוצים
afterwards Agnes Sorel Anne beauty became Bianca brilliant brother Cardinal Catherine character Charles VII charms child Christina Countess Court Crown daughter death Diane died Duc d'Orléans Duchess of Cleveland Duchess of Portsmouth Duke Earl Elizabeth England English eyes father favour favourite Fitzherbert France French Gabrielle gave girl hand Hardwick heart Henry honour hope husband Infanta influence intrigues Isabella King King's kingdom Lady Hamilton Longueville Lord Louis XIV Madame de Longueville Madame de Maintenon Madame de Montespan Madame de Pompadour Madame Roland Mademoiselle Margaret MARGARET OF PARMA Marie de Mancini Marquise marriage married Mazarin ment mind ministers mistress mother National Portrait Gallery Nelson never niece nobles Paris passion person Philip political Portrait Gallery London Prince Princess Queen Regent reign royal says Sir William sister Spain temper throne told took Versailles widow wife woman young
קטעים בולטים
עמוד 24 - I went with the few who attended him, into the Duchess of Portsmouth's dressing-room within her bed-chamber, where she was in her morning loose garment, her maids combing, newly out of her bed, his Majesty and the gallants standing about her : but that which engaged my curiosity was the rich and splendid furniture of this woman's apartment, now twice or thrice pulled down and rebuilt to satisfy her prodigal and expensive pleasures, while her Majesty's does not exceed some gentlemen's wives in furniture...
עמוד 25 - The deep recesses of the grove he gain'd ; Where, in a plain defended by the wood, Crept through the matted grass a crystal flood, By which an alabaster fountain stood : And on the margin of the fount was laid (Attended by her slaves) a sleeping maid.
עמוד 79 - Madame Roland heard herself sentenced to death with the air of one who saw in her condemnation merely her title to immortality. She rose, and slightly bowing to her judges, said, with a bitter and ironical smile, " I thank you for considering me worthy to share the fate of the good and great men you have murdered...
עמוד 53 - If in loftiness of aim her temper fell below many of the tempers of her time, in the breadth of its range, in the universality of its sympathy it stood far above them all.
עמוד 276 - The Princess Henrietta is very pretty, but much below my expectation; and her dressing of herself with her hair frized short up to her ears, did make her seem so much the less to me. But my wife standing near her with two or three black patches on, and well dressed, did seem to me much handsomer than she.
עמוד 59 - O, now it mindeth me, that you was one who saw this man elsewhere ;' and hereat she dropped a tear, and smote her bosom. She held in her hand a golden cup, which she often put to her lips : but, in truth, her heart seemed too full to need more filling.
עמוד 193 - Prince was in imminent danger, that he had stabbed himself, and that only her immediate presence would save him. She resisted, in the most peremptory manner, all their importunities, saying that nothing should induce her to enter Carlton House. She was afterwards brought to share in the alarm ; but still fearful of some stratagem derogatory to her reputation, insisted upon some lady of high character accompanying her, as an indispensable condition ; the Duchess of Devonshire was selected.
עמוד 48 - Anne Boleyn. From her father she inherited her frank and hearty address, her love of popularity and of free intercourse with the people, her dauntless courage and her amazing self-confidence. Her harsh, manlike voice, her impetuous will, her pride, her furious outbursts of anger, came to her with her Tudor blood. She rated great nobles as if they were schoolboys; she met the insolence of Essex with a box on the ear; she would break now and then into the gravest deliberations to swear at her ministers...
עמוד 24 - Majesty does not exceed some gentlemen's ladies in furniture and accommodation. Here I saw the new fabric of French tapestry, for design, tenderness of work, and incomparable imitation of the best paintings, beyond anything I had ever beheld. Some pieces had Versailles, St. Germains, and other palaces of the French King, with huntings, figures, and landscapes, exotic fowls, and all to the life rarely done.
עמוד 59 - she exclaimed, " is ' must ' a word to be addressed to princes? Little man, little man, thy father, if he had been alive, durst not have used that word; but thou art grown presumptuous because thou knowest that I shall die.