 | Thomas Burton - Great Britain - 1828 - 618 pages
...forced to let a great deal go that he did not like." This peeress, " one of the race of the Villiers, was a woman of great beauty, but most enormously vitious...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 - 618 pages
...forced to let a great deal go that he did not like." This peeress, " one of the race of the Villiers, was a woman of great beauty, but most enormously vitious...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
...mistress, by whom he had five children e. 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: but he did then so entirely trust the earl... | |
 | John Heneage Jesse - Great Britain - 1840 - 558 pages
...The Duchess of Cleveland," says Burnet, " 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." But, as regards the nature of their intercourse,... | |
 | Leitch Ritchie - Berkshire (England) - 1840 - 356 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,... | |
 | William Goodman - Great Britain - 1844 - 378 pages
...to her natural sons. Burnet says : " She was a womafi of great beauty, but most enormously vicious and ravenous, foolish, but imperious, very uneasy...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 her natural sons. Burnet says : " She was a womail of great beauty, but most enormously vicious and ravenous, foolish, but imperious, very uneasy...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), Charles II (King of England), Thomas Blount - Gramont, Philibert, comte de, 1621-1707 - 1846 - 562 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." — Burneti Own Timet, vol. ip 129. [The... | |
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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... 
