Lives of the Princesses of Wales: Augusta of Saxe-Gotha. Cont'd. Caroline of BrunswickRemington and Company, 1883 - Princes |
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... March , 1751. He had for years suffered from a permanent weakness of one lung , brought on by the neglect of an injury caused by the blow of a tennis ball at his country seat of Cliefden . In 2 LIVES OF THE PRINCESSES OF WALES .
... March , 1751. He had for years suffered from a permanent weakness of one lung , brought on by the neglect of an injury caused by the blow of a tennis ball at his country seat of Cliefden . In 2 LIVES OF THE PRINCESSES OF WALES .
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Barbara Clay Finch. than anxiety for the honour of him whose death was the cause of it , she proceeded to the Prince's room , and burned the whole of his private papers . By this the world lost some rare supplementary chapters to a ...
Barbara Clay Finch. than anxiety for the honour of him whose death was the cause of it , she proceeded to the Prince's room , and burned the whole of his private papers . By this the world lost some rare supplementary chapters to a ...
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... Cause war to cease at his command- No wishes else remain ! Most gracious Prince , the world expects To see you void of all defects , Your heart with truth replete ; Your task is arduous I own , But you're unaltered by a throne , And are ...
... Cause war to cease at his command- No wishes else remain ! Most gracious Prince , the world expects To see you void of all defects , Your heart with truth replete ; Your task is arduous I own , But you're unaltered by a throne , And are ...
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... cause support . Vices like snow will melt away , When Phoebus darts his powerful ray , And fly from such a Court . This , for the benefit of the uninitiated it may be explained , was in those days counted as poetry . One of George's ...
... cause support . Vices like snow will melt away , When Phoebus darts his powerful ray , And fly from such a Court . This , for the benefit of the uninitiated it may be explained , was in those days counted as poetry . One of George's ...
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... cause for much anxiety , and for many disquieting surmises respecting the state of affairs in case of his death . The King , " writes Wal- pole , " had one of the last of those strong and universally epidemic colds , which , however ...
... cause for much anxiety , and for many disquieting surmises respecting the state of affairs in case of his death . The King , " writes Wal- pole , " had one of the last of those strong and universally epidemic colds , which , however ...
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Page 14 - Seventh, all solemnity and decorum ceased ; no order was observed, people sat or stood where they could or would; the yeomen of the guard were crying out for help, oppressed by the immense weight of the coffin ; the bishop read sadly, and blundered in the prayers ; the fine chapter, man that is born of a woman, was chanted, not read; and the anthem, besides being immeasurably tedious, would have served as well for a nuptial.
Page 290 - ... from the roots and the stem of the tree. Save that country, that you may continue to adorn it; save the Crown, which is in jeopardy, the aristocracy, which is shaken; save the altar, which must stagger with the blow that rends its kindred throne!
Page 2 - Here lies Fred, Who was alive, and is dead. Had it been his father, I had much rather. Had it been his brother, Still better than another. Had it been his sister, No one would have missed her. Had it been the whole generation, Still better for the nation. But since 'tis only Fred, Who was alive, and is dead, There's no more to be said.
Page 140 - The person given to us by Monk was a man without any sense of his duty as a prince, without any regard to the dignity of his crown; without any love to his people ; dissolute, false, venal, and destitute of any positive good quality whatsoever, except a pleasant temper, and the manners of a gentleman.
Page 15 - This grave scene was fully contrasted by the burlesque Duke of Newcastle. He fell into a fit of crying the moment he came into the chapel, and flung himself back in a stall, the archbishop hovering over him with a...
Page 163 - Those who have advised you, Sir, to delay so long the period of my daughter's commencing her intercourse with the world, and, for that purpose, to make Windsor her residence, appear not to have regarded the interruptions to her education which this arrangement occasions, both by the impossibility of obtaining...
Page 160 - I presume, Sir, to represent to your Royal Highness, that the separation, which every succeeding month is making wider, of the Mother and the Daughter, is equally injurious to my character and to her education. I say nothing of the deep wounds which so cruel an arrangement inflicts upon my feelings, although I would fain hope that few persons will be found of a disposition to think lightly of these.
Page 15 - He fell into a fit of crying the moment he came into the chapel, and flung himself back in a stall, the archbishop hovering over him with a smelling-bottle; but in two minutes his curiosity got the better of his hypocrisy, and he ran about the chapel with his glass to spy who was or was not there, spying with one hand, and mopping his eyes with the other. Then returned the fear of catching cold ; and the Duke of Cumberland, who was sinking with heat, felt himself weighed down, and turning round,...
Page 85 - I knew she wore coarse petticoats, coarse shifts, and thread stockings, and these never well washed or changed often enough.
Page 88 - I, according to the established etiquette, introduced (no one else being in the room) the Princess Caroline to him. She very properly, in consequence of my saying to her that it was the right mode of proceeding, attempted to kneel to him. He raised her, (gracefully enough,) and embraced her, said barely one word, turned round, retired to a distant part of the apartment, and, calling me to him, said — ' Harris, I am not well ; pray, get me a glass of brandy...