Memoirs of Count Grammont, Volume 1J. Carpenter and W. Miller, 1811 - Great Britain |
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Page xi
... called Le Belier , which he wrote on the following occasion : Louis XIV . had pre- sented to the Countess of Grammont ( whom he highly esteemed ) a remarkably elegant small country house in the park of Versailles : this house became so ...
... called Le Belier , which he wrote on the following occasion : Louis XIV . had pre- sented to the Countess of Grammont ( whom he highly esteemed ) a remarkably elegant small country house in the park of Versailles : this house became so ...
Page xxvii
... called him his hero ; wrote verses in his praise ; in short , took as warm an interest in him as an Epicurean philosopher can do in any one but himself . No subterraneons murmur dread , And not a single clap COUNT DE GRAMMONT . xxvii.
... called him his hero ; wrote verses in his praise ; in short , took as warm an interest in him as an Epicurean philosopher can do in any one but himself . No subterraneons murmur dread , And not a single clap COUNT DE GRAMMONT . xxvii.
Page 84
... called satisfaction . The Chevalier de Grammont assured him , that no such thought had ever entered the mind of Matta ; that on the contrary he knew , that he very greatly esteemed him ; that all this could alone arise from the extreme ...
... called satisfaction . The Chevalier de Grammont assured him , that no such thought had ever entered the mind of Matta ; that on the contrary he knew , that he very greatly esteemed him ; that all this could alone arise from the extreme ...
Page 134
... called them- selves maids of honour , and a Duenna , ano- ther monster , who took the title of governess to those extraordinary beauties . Among the men were Francisco de Melo , brother to the Countess de Panétra ; one Tau- rauvédez ...
... called them- selves maids of honour , and a Duenna , ano- ther monster , who took the title of governess to those extraordinary beauties . Among the men were Francisco de Melo , brother to the Countess de Panétra ; one Tau- rauvédez ...
Page 137
... called him- self her highness's barber . Katharine de Bra- ganza was far from appearing with splendour in the charming court where she came to reign ; however , in the end she was pretty successful . The Chevalier de Grammont , who had ...
... called him- self her highness's barber . Katharine de Bra- ganza was far from appearing with splendour in the charming court where she came to reign ; however , in the end she was pretty successful . The Chevalier de Grammont , who had ...
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Page 256 - Blest madman, who could every hour employ With something new to wish or to enjoy ! Railing and praising were his usual themes, And both, to show his judgment, in extremes: So over violent or over civil That every man with him was God or Devil.
Page 257 - Of mimic'd statesmen and their merry king. No wit to flatter left of all his store! No fool to laugh at, which he valued more. There, victor of his health, of fortune, friends, And fame, this lord of useless thousands ends.
Page 240 - 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 behaviour towards him, did so disorder him, that often he was not master of himself, nor capable of minding business, which, in so critical a time, required great application...
Page 256 - A man so various, that he seemed to be Not one, but all mankind's epitome : Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong, Was everything by starts, and nothing long; But, in the course of one revolving moon, Was chemist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon ; Then all for women, painting, rhyming, drinking, Besides ten thousand freaks that died in thinking.
Page 235 - Falmouth was there, I know not what to act; Some say 'twas to grow Duke, too, by contract. An untaught bullet, in its wanton scope, Dashes him all to pieces, and his Hope. Such was his rise, such was his fall, unpraised; A chance-shot sooner took him than chance raised: His shattered head the fearless Duke distains, And gave the last first proof that he had brains.
Page 149 - ... for a woman to have less wit, or more beauty : all her features were fine and regular ; but her shape was not good : yet she was slender, straight enough, and taller than the generality of women : she was very graceful, danced well, and spoke French better than her mother tongue : she was well bred, and possessed, in perfection, that air of dress which is so much admired, and which cannot be attained, unless it be taken when young, in France.
Page 257 - In the worst inn's worst room, with mat half hung The floors of plaster, and the walls of dung, On once a flock-bed, but repair'd with straw, With tape-tied curtains, never meant to draw, The George and Garter dangling from that bed Where tawdry yellow strove with dirty red, Great Villiers lies...
Page 256 - For, spite nf him, the weight of business fell On Absalom, and wise Achitophel: Thus, wicked but in will, of means bereft, He left not faction, but of that was left.
Page 232 - he was a man every way fitted for a court ; of a graceful appearance, a lively wit, and a cheerful temper ; a man of great expence ; decent even in his vices, for he always kept up the form of religion. He had gone through many transactions in Ireland with more fidelity than success. He had .made a treaty with the Irish, which was broken by the great body of them, though some few of them adhered still to him. But the whole Irish nation did still pretend, that though they had...
Page 258 - He has dam'd up all those Lights, that Nature made into the noblest Prospects of the World, and opened other little blind Loopholes backward, by turning Day into Night, and Night into Day. His Appetite to his Pleasures is diseased and crazy, like the Pica in a Woman, that longs to eat that which was never made for Food, or a Girl in the Greensickness, that eats Chalk and Mortar.