Queen VictoriaHarcourt, Brace, 1921 - 434 pages |
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... live amongst her friends , it must be in such a state of independence as to command their respect . I shall not require very much , but a certain number of servants and 66 a carriage are essentials . " As to his 16 QUEEN VICTORIA.
... live amongst her friends , it must be in such a state of independence as to command their respect . I shall not require very much , but a certain number of servants and 66 a carriage are essentials . " As to his 16 QUEEN VICTORIA.
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... live in England , moved about with uneasy precision through Belgium and 1 Letters , I , 1-3 ; Grey , 378-81 , 389 ; Crawford , 30-4 ; Stock- mar , 113 . Germany , attending parades and inspecting barracks in a neat ANTECEDENTS 21.
... live in England , moved about with uneasy precision through Belgium and 1 Letters , I , 1-3 ; Grey , 378-81 , 389 ; Crawford , 30-4 ; Stock- mar , 113 . Germany , attending parades and inspecting barracks in a neat ANTECEDENTS 21.
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... live in England , even in the quiet way in which we are going on , without splendour , and without show , nothing short of doubling the seven thousand pounds will do , REDUCTION BEING IMPOSSIBLE . ' It was clear that he would be obliged ...
... live in England , even in the quiet way in which we are going on , without splendour , and without show , nothing short of doubling the seven thousand pounds will do , REDUCTION BEING IMPOSSIBLE . ' It was clear that he would be obliged ...
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... live much longer ; and the Duchess of York had been attacked by a mortal disease . Probably it would be the King and the Duchess of York ; or perhaps the King and the Duke of York ; or the King and the Regent . He himself was one of the ...
... live much longer ; and the Duchess of York had been attacked by a mortal disease . Probably it would be the King and the Duchess of York ; or perhaps the King and the Duke of York ; or the King and the Regent . He himself was one of the ...
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... [ the Duke of York ] their own man for his life . . . . He [ Fred . I ] won't live long either ; that 1 Wilberforce , William , V , 71–2 . 2 Letters , 1 , 17 . Prince of Blackguards , ' Brother William , ' is 32 QUEEN VICTORIA.
... [ the Duke of York ] their own man for his life . . . . He [ Fred . I ] won't live long either ; that 1 Wilberforce , William , V , 71–2 . 2 Letters , 1 , 17 . Prince of Blackguards , ' Brother William , ' is 32 QUEEN VICTORIA.
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Page 346 - You have heard me called a flatterer," he said to Matthew Arnold, "and it is true. Everyone likes flattery; and when you come to royalty you should lay it on with a trowel.
Page 121 - I was calm but very decided, and I think you would have been pleased to see my composure and great firmness ; the Queen of England will not submit to such trickery. Keep yourself in readiness, for you may soon be wanted.
Page 84 - Wise wretch ! with pleasures too refined to please ; With too much spirit to be e'er at ease; With too much quickness ever to be taught; With too much thinking to have common thought: You purchase pain with all that joy can give, And die of nothing but a rage to live.
Page 69 - At 9 came Lord Melbourne, whom I saw in my room, and of course quite alone, as I shall always do all my Ministers. He kissed my hand, and I then acquainted him that it had long been my intention to retain him and the rest of the present Ministry at the head of affairs, and that it could not be in better hands than his.
Page 419 - From my heart I thank my beloved people. May God bless them!
Page 409 - The Queen is most anxious to enlist everyone who can speak or write to join in checking this mad, wicked folly of ' Woman's Rights,' with all its attendant horrors, on which her poor feeble sex is bent, forgetting every sense of womanly feeling and propriety.
Page 267 - We had gone so far forty miles, at least twenty on horseback. We had decided to call ourselves Lord and Lady Churchill and party, Lady Churchill passing as Miss Spencer, and General Grey as Dr. Grey! Brown once forgot this, and called me "Your Majesty...
Page 303 - I am also anxious to repeat one thing, and that one is my firm resolve, my irrevocable decision, viz. that his wishes - his plans - about everything, his views about every thing are to be my law\ And no human power will make me swerve from what he decided and wished - and I look to you to support and help me in this.
Page 68 - Since it has pleased Providence to place me in this station, I shall do my utmost to fulfill my duty towards my country; I am very young, and perhaps in many, though not in all things, inexperienced; but I am sure that very few have more real good will and more real desire to do what is fit and right than I have.
Page 192 - So much I feel my genial spirits droop, My hopes all flat, nature within me seems In all her functions weary of herself ; My race of glory run, and race of shame, And I shall shortly be with them that rest.