 | Gilbert Burnet - Great Britain - 1897 - 666 pages
...Cleveland, privately printed, 1871. ever uneasy to the king, and always carrying on intrigues CHAP. I. with other men, while yet she pretended she was jealous...strange behaviour towards him, did so disorder him, that of1en he was not master of himself, nor capable of minding business, which, in' so critical a time,... | |
 | John Heneage Jesse - Great Britain - 1901 - 370 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...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) - France - 1903 - 378 pages
...years. Truly does Burnet write 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 solemn Clarendon, the dignified Ormonde,... | |
 | Bertram Dobell - Privately printed books - 1906 - 254 pages
...Ignominious Monarch. " She was " says Bishop Burnet, " 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." The Bishop's judgment, severe... | |
 | Bertram Dobell - Privately printed books - 1906 - 278 pages
...Ignominious Monarch. " She was " says Bishop Burnet, "a woman of great beauty, but most enormously vicious and ravenous ; foolish, but imperious; very uneasy...behaviour towards him, did so disorder him, that often ho was not master of himself, nor capable of business, which, in so critical a time, required great... | |
 | John Evelyn - Great Britain - 1906 - 500 pages
...State Bedroom at Hampton Court ; it has been drawn in less attractive colours by Gilbert Burnet : — " She was a woman of great beauty, but most enormously...men, while yet she pretended she was jealous of him " (History of His Own Time, 1724, i. 94). There is a privately printed Memoir of her by the late G.... | |
 | Gilbert Burnet, Thomas Stackhouse - Great Britain - 1906 - 440 pages
...him, was advanced to be Duchess of Cleveland ' — a woman of great beauty, but enormously vicious and ravenous, foolish but imperious, very uneasy to...King, and always carrying on intrigues with other men, even while she pretended to be jealous of him. His passion for her, and her strange behaviour to him,... | |
 | Gilbert Burnet, Thomas Stackhouse - Great Britain - 1906 - 436 pages
...him, was advanced to be Duchess of Cleveland l — a woman of great beauty, but enormously vicious and ravenous, foolish but imperious, very uneasy to...King, and always carrying on intrigues with other men, even while she pretended to be jealous of him. His passion for her, and her strange behaviour to him,... | |
 | Emil Reich - History - 1908 - 418 pages
...Villiers, second Viscount Grandison. " 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." So Burnet wrote of her, and all the chronicles of the period are unanimous concerning her beauty and... | |
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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... 
