 She was a woman of great beauty, but most enormously vicious and ravenous ; foolish but imperious, very uneasy to the king, and always carrying on intrigues with other men, while yet she pretended she was jealous of him. His passion for her, and her strange...  The Great Governing Families of England - Page 342by John Langton Sanford, Meredith White Townsend - 1865Full view - About this book
 | John Britton, Edward Wedlake Brayley, Joseph Nightingale, James Norris Brewer, John Evans, John Hodgson, Francis Charles Laird, Frederic Shoberl, John Bigland, Thomas Rees - Anglesey (Wales) - 1801 - 512 pages
...wicked and ravenous; foolish, tut imperious ; very uneasy to the King, and always carrying on intrigues with other men, while yet she pretended she was jealous of him." She became Countess of Castlemaine in right of her first husband, but was created Ducbess of Cleveland... | |
 | John Britton, Edward Wedlake Brayley, Joseph Nightingale, James Norris Brewer, John Evans, John Hodgson, Francis Charles Laird, Frederic Shoberl, John Bigland, Thomas Rees - Anglesey (Wales) - 1801 - 474 pages
...wicked and ravenous; ibolish, but imperious; very uneasy to the King, and always carrying on intrigues with other men, while yet she pretended she was jealous of him." She became Countess of Castlemaine in right of her first husband, but was created Duchess of Cleveland... | |
 | Arthur Collins - 1812 - 604 pages
...vitious and ravenous ; foolish, but imperious, very uneasy to the King, and always carrying on intrigues with other men, while yet she pretended she was jealous...master of himself, nor capable of minding business, which in so critical a time required treat application.'' Burnet's Hist. OT vol.i. p .94. k Hist of... | |
 | Arthur Collins, Sir Egerton Brydges - Aristocracy (Social class) - 1812 - 604 pages
...vitious and ravenous ; foolish, but imperious, very uneasy to the King, and always carrying on intrigues with other men, while yet she pretended she was jealous...master of himself, nor capable of minding business, which in so critical a time required, great application.1' Burnet's Hist. O T- vol-i. p 94, • Hist... | |
 | Gilbert Burnet - Great Britain - 1823 - 644 pages
...vicious and ravenous; foolish but imperious, very uneasy to the king, and always carrying on intrigues with other men, while yet she pretended she was jealous...master of himself, nor capable of minding business, which, in so critical a time, required great application: but he did then so entirely trust the earl... | |
 | Thomas Burton - Great Britain - 1828 - 618 pages
...vitious and ravenous ; foolish, but imperious ; very uneasy to the king, and always carrying on intrigues with other men ; while yet she pretended she was jealous of him. His passion for her," adds Bishop Burnet, " and her strange behaviour towards him, did so disorder him, that often he was... | |
 | Gilbert Burnet - Great Britain - 1833 - 676 pages
...vicious and ravenous ; foolish but imperious, very uneasy to the king, and always carrying on intrigues with other men, while yet she pretended she was jealous...master of himself, nor capable of minding business, which, in so critical a time, required great application: but he did then so entirely trust the earl... | |
 | John Heneage Jesse - Great Britain - 1840 - 558 pages
...vicious and ravenous ; foolish but imperious, very uneasy to the King, and always carrying on intrigues with other men, while yet she pretended she was jealous...master of himself, nor capable of minding business, which, in so critical a time, required great application." But, as regards the nature of their intercourse,... | |
 | Leitch Ritchie - Berkshire (England) - 1840 - 356 pages
...vicious and ravenous ; foolish, but imperious ; very uneasy to the king, and always carrying on intrigues with other men, while yet she pretended she was jealous...him : his passion for her, and her strange behaviour to him, did so disorder him, that often he was not master of himself, nor capable of minding business,... | |
 | William Goodman - Great Britain - 1844 - 378 pages
...vicious and ravenous, foolish, but imperious, very uneasy to the king, and always carrying on intrigues with other men, while yet she pretended she was jealous...him. His passion for her, and her strange behaviour toward him, did so disorder him, that often he was not master of himself, nor capable of minding business."... | |
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