 | John Heneage Jesse - Great Britain - 1855 - 568 pages
...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 - 464 pages
...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 - History - 1865 - 406 pages
...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... | |
 | George Steinman Steinman - 1871 - 274 pages
...Duchess, gives this character of her : " She was a woman of great beauty, but most enormously vicious and ravenous ; foolish, but imperious ; very uneasy...often he was not master of himself, nor capable of business, which, in so critical a time, required great application." Another contemporary of hers,... | |
 | Anthony Hamilton - 1876 - 552 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...men, while yet she pretended she was jealous of him. Hia passion for her, and her strange behaviour towards him, did so disorder him, that often he was... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams - Great Britain - 1885 - 442 pages
...resting-place. Bishop Burnet says of her: — "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." The propriety of one of the Bishop's epithets... | |
 | Joseph Fitzgerald Molloy - Great Britain - 1885 - 352 pages
...whilst admitting her beauty, proclaims her defects. She was, he relates, ' most enormously vicious and ravenous, foolish but imperious, very uneasy to...always carrying on intrigues with other men, while she yet pretended she was jealous of him.' Pepys testifies likewise to her physical attractions so... | |
 | Peter Cunningham - 1892 - 338 pages
...Walter. Bishop Burnet wrote of her : ' She was a woman of great beauty, but most enormously vicious and ravenous ; foolish but imperious ; very uneasy...often he was not master of himself, nor capable of business which in so critical a time required great application.' There is ample evidence that this... | |
 | Andrew Marvell - Satire, English - 1892 - 320 pages
...Cleveland. She died in 1709. Burnet says, " She was a woman of great beauty, but more enormously vicious and ravenous ; foolish, but imperious ; very uneasy...men, while yet she pretended she was jealous of him." P. 23, 1. So. Lady Castlemaine was charged with intrigues with Jacob Hall, an athletic rope-dancer,... | |
 | Peter Cunningham - 1896 - 298 pages
...Burnet wrote of her : ' She was a woman of great beauty, but most enormously vicious and ravenously foolish but imperious ; very uneasy to the King, and...often he was not master of himself, nor capable of business which in so critical a time required great application.' There is ample evidence that this... | |
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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... 
