 | Richard Plantagenet Temple Nugent Brydges Chandos Grenville Duke of Buckingham and Chandos, Henry Rumsey Forster - Art - 1848 - 310 pages
...in her 69th year. Bishop Burnet says, " she was a woman of great beauty, but most enormously vicious and ravenous; foolish, but imperious ; very uneasy...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 - 130 pages
...in her 69th year. Bishop Burnet says, " she was a woman of great beauty, but most enormously vicious and ravenous; foolish, but imperious ; very uneasy...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,... | |
 | Leitch Ritchie - 1848 - 312 pages
...neglected queen. " She was," says Bishop Burnet. " a woman of great beauty, but most enormously vicious and ravenous; foolish, but imperious; very uneasy...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,... | |
 | Gilbert Burnet - Electronic books - 1850 - 949 pages
...mistress, by whom he had five children. She was a woman of great beauty, butmost enormously vicious and ravenous : foolish but imperious, very uneasy...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... | |
 | Charles MacFarlane - Great Britain - 1851
...government of the nation. They beauty, but most enormously vicious and ravenous ; foolish, but imperious j very uneasy to the king ; and always ^carrying on...master of himself, nor capable of minding business." This account is more than borne out by a variety of authorities. * Dalrymple. t According to Burnet,... | |
 | Anthony Hamilton (Count), Charles II (King of England), Thomas Blount - Great Britain - 1853 - 546 pages
...in her 69th year. Bishop Burnet says, " she was a woman of great beauty, but most enormously vicious and ravenous ; foolish, but imperious ; very uneasy...master of himself, nor capable of minding business, which, in so critical a time, required great application." — Burnet « Own Times, vol. ip 129. [The... | |
 | John Heneage Jesse - Great Britain - 1855
...The Duchess of Cleveland," says Burnet, " was a woman of great beauty, but most enormously vicious and ravenous ; foolish but imperious, very uneasy to the King, and always carrying on intrigue • with other men, while yet she pretended she was jealous of him. His passion for her, and... | |
 | John William Clayton - Great Britain - 1859
...few, but vigorous touches : " She was a woman of great beauty," he says, " but most enormously vicious and ravenous ; foolish but imperious ; very uneasy...master of himself, nor capable of minding business." From the moment of his Restoration, the King had been advised by his friends to select a fitting consort,'... | |
 | John Langton Sanford, Meredith White Townsend - Reference - 1865
...1709, of dropsy. Burnet says of her : " 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 in* Vide anted, under " the Stanhopes." trigues with other men, while yet she pretended she was jealous... | |
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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. His passion for her, and her strange... 
