 | 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... | |
 | Hugh Robert Eardley Childers - Murder - 1913 - 412 pages
...interests. Burnet says : " She was a woman of great beauty, but most enormously vicious and ravenous ; very uneasy to the King, and always carrying on intrigues...master of himself, nor capable of minding business, which, in so critical a time, required great application."* For a woman in whose character rapacity... | |
 | Frank Taylor - Great Britain - 1921 - 634 pages
...stimulated an appetite that had been cloyed by universal acquiescence. Burnet says that the King's " passion for her, and her strange behaviour towards...was not master of himself, nor capable of minding business."4 But whatever may have been the key wherewith she could unlock the heart of Charles, it... | |
 | William Wycherley - English drama - 1924 - 300 pages
...Cleveland, gives this character of her : " She was a woman of great beauty, but most enormously vicious and ravenous; foolish but imperious; very uneasy to...men, while yet she pretended she was jealous of him." Says Oldmixon:1 " 'Tis not a secret that she was the lewdest as well as the fairest of all King Charles's... | |
 | Lewis Saul Benjamin - Great Britain - 1924 - 390 pages
.... She was a woman of great beauty, but most enormously vicious and ravenous, foolish but imperious, and always carrying on intrigues with other men, while yet she pretended she was jealous of him." On February 25, 1661, she was delivered of a child, Anne. Her husband claimed the paternity of 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... 
