 | Winston Churchill - Biography & Autobiography - 2002 - 72 pages
...the King, and always carrying on intrigues with other men, while yet pretending she was jealous or him. His passion for her and her strange behaviour...master of himself, nor capable of minding business, which in so critical a time required great application. More than forty years later (1709) there was... | |
 | Lewis Melville - History - 2005 - 244 pages
...was a woman of great beauty, but most enormously vicious and ravenous, foolish but imperious, ever uneasy to the King, and always carrying on intrigues...for her, and her strange behaviour towards him, did SQ disorder him, that often he was not master of himself, nor capable of minding business, which, in... | |
 | Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1826 - 648 pages
...from Jatiiei the Second to the Pope, to reconcile England to the See of Rome. sion for her, and lier strange behaviour towards him, did so disorder him,...master of himself, nor capable of minding business," iec. Hamilton's malicious wit has pourtrayed her in more lively but not more amiable colours. The occasion... | |
 | Liberalism (Religion) - 1811 - 796 pages
...Burnett, " a woman of great beauty, but most enormously vicious and ravenous ; foolish, but impe. rious ; very uneasy to the king, and always carrying on intrigues with other men, while yet she pretended to be jealous of him." OT Fol. i. 94. The first Duke of Grafton, how. ever, appears to have acted in... | |
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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... 
