 | Thomas Burton - Great Britain - 1828 - 618 pages
...peeress, " one of the race of the Villiers, was a woman of great beauty, but most enormously vitious and ravenous ; foolish, but imperious ; very uneasy...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... | |
 | Thomas Burton - Great Britain - 1828 - 620 pages
...peeress, " one of the race of the Villiers, was a woman of great beauty, but most enormously vitious and ravenous ; foolish, but imperious ; very uneasy...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... | |
 | Leitch Ritchie - Berkshire (England) - 1840 - 356 pages
...the haughty, insulting, and unfeeling rival of the neglected queen. " She was," says Bishop Burnet, " a woman of great beauty, but most enormously vicious...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
...to be the Duchess of Cleveland, with remainder to her natural sons. Burnet says : " She was a womafi of great beauty, but most enormously vicious and ravenous,...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."... | |
 | William Goodman - Great Britain - 1845 - 440 pages
...to be the Duchess of Cleveland, with remainder to her natural sons. Burnet says : " She was a womail of great beauty, but most enormously vicious and ravenous,...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."... | |
 | Anthony Hamilton (Count) - Great Britain - 1846 - 602 pages
...afterwards, and died of a dropsy, on the 9th of October, 1709, in her 69th year. Bishop Burnet says, " she was a woman of great beauty, but most enormously...strange behaviour towards him, did so disorder him, thnt often he was not master of himself, nor capable of minding business, which, in so critical a time,... | |
 | T. Timpson - Great Britain - 1847 - 714 pages
...principle. — The duchess of Cleveland was his first and longest mistress, by whom he had five children. She was a woman of great beauty, but most enormously...ravenous; foolish but imperious, very uneasy to the king *." "With the restoration of the king," Burnet remarks, "a spirit of extravagant joy spread over the... | |
 | William Goodman - Great Britain - 1847 - 376 pages
...he elevated her to be the Duchess of Cleveland, with remainder to her natural sons. Burnet says : " She was a woman of great beauty, but most enormously vicious and ravenous, foolish, but imped- , OUH, very uneasy to the king, and always carrying on intrigues with other men, while yet she... | |
 | Richard Plantagenet Temple Nugent Brydges Chandos Grenville Duke of Buckingham and Chandos, Henry Rumsey Forster - Art - 1848 - 426 pages
...afterwards, and died of a dropsy, on the 9th of October, 1709, in her 69th year. Bishop Burnet says, " she was a woman of great beauty, but most enormously...towards him, did so disorder him, that often he was not mustur of himself, nur capable of minding business, which, in so critical a time, required great application."... | |
 | Richard Plantagenet Temple Nugent Brydges Chandos Grenville Duke of Buckingham and Chandos, Henry Rumsey Forster - Art - 1848 - 428 pages
...afterwards, and died of a dropsy, on the 9th of October, 1709, in her 69th year. Bishop Burnet says, " she was a woman of great beauty, but most enormously...for her, and her strange behaviour towards him, did БО disorder him, that often he was not master of himself, nor capable of minding business, which,... | |
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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. 
