Queen VictoriaHarcourt, Brace, 1921 - 434 páginas Lytton Strachey's acclaimed portrayal of Queen Victoria revolutionised the art of biography by using elements of romantic fiction and melodrama to create a warm, humorous and very human portrait of this iconic figure. We see Victoria as a strong-willed child with a famous temper, as the 18-year-old girl queen, as a monarch, wife, mother and widow. Equally fascinating are the depictions of her relationships: with her governess "precious Lehzen", with Peel, Gladstone and Disraeli, with her beloved Albert and, in later life, her legendary devotion to her Highland servant John Brown. |
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... Peel , even the savage Croker , even the cold and caustic Greville - all were completely carried away . Everything that 1 Greville , III , 411 . was reported of her subsequent proceedings seemed to be of 71 LORD MELBOURNE.
... Peel , even the savage Croker , even the cold and caustic Greville - all were completely carried away . Everything that 1 Greville , III , 411 . was reported of her subsequent proceedings seemed to be of 71 LORD MELBOURNE.
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... Peel , Lord Palmerston , Lord Melbourne - had learnt to put a high value upon his probity and his intelligence . “ He is one of the cleverest fellows I ever saw , " said Lord 3 1 Stockmar , 109-10 . a Ibid . , chaps . viii , ix , x ...
... Peel , Lord Palmerston , Lord Melbourne - had learnt to put a high value upon his probity and his intelligence . “ He is one of the cleverest fellows I ever saw , " said Lord 3 1 Stockmar , 109-10 . a Ibid . , chaps . viii , ix , x ...
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... of Wellington , Sir Robert Peel , even the savage Croker , even the cold and caustic Greville - all were completely carried away . Everything that 1 Greville , III , 411 . was reported of her subsequent proceedings seemed to be of 71.
... of Wellington , Sir Robert Peel , even the savage Croker , even the cold and caustic Greville - all were completely carried away . Everything that 1 Greville , III , 411 . was reported of her subsequent proceedings seemed to be of 71.
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... Peel , who would almost certainly be the next Prime Minister . His manners were detestable , and he wanted to turn out Lord M. His supporters , without exception , were equally 1 Girlhood , I , 324 . bad ; and as for Sir James Graham ...
... Peel , who would almost certainly be the next Prime Minister . His manners were detestable , and he wanted to turn out Lord M. His supporters , without exception , were equally 1 Girlhood , I , 324 . bad ; and as for Sir James Graham ...
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... Peel . She was in " a state of dreadful grief , " but she swallowed down her tears , and 1 Greville , August 4 , 1841 ( unpublished ) ; Girlhood , II , 154 , 162 . braced herself , with royal resolution , for the odious LORD MELBOURNE 117.
... Peel . She was in " a state of dreadful grief , " but she swallowed down her tears , and 1 Greville , August 4 , 1841 ( unpublished ) ; Girlhood , II , 154 , 162 . braced herself , with royal resolution , for the odious LORD MELBOURNE 117.
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Página 320 - Everyone likes flattery; and, when you come to royalty, you should lay it on with a trowel.
Página 95 - I was calm but very decided, and I think you would have been pleased to see my composure and great firmness ; the Queen of England will not submit to such trickery. Keep yourself in readiness, for you may soon be wanted.
Página 76 - Wise wretch ! with pleasures too refined to please ; With too much spirit to be e'er at ease; With too much quickness ever to be taught; With too much thinking to have common thought: You purchase pain with all that joy can give, And die of nothing but a rage to live.
Página 164 - So much I feel my genial spirits droop, My hopes all flat, nature within me seems In all her functions weary of herself ; My race of glory run, and race of shame, And I shall shortly be with them that rest.
Página 59 - At 9 came Lord Melbourne, whom I saw in my room, and of course quite alone, as I shall always do all my Ministers. He kissed my hand, and I then acquainted him that it had long been my intention to retain him and the rest of the present Ministry at the head of affairs, and that it could not be in better hands than his.
Página 391 - From my heart I thank my beloved people. May God bless them!
Página 381 - The Queen is most anxious to enlist everyone who can speak or write to join in checking this mad, wicked folly of 'Woman's Rights,' with all its attendant horrors, on which her poor feeble sex is bent, forgetting every sense of womanly feeling and propriety.
Página 241 - We had gone so far forty miles, at least twenty on horseback. We had decided to call ourselves Lord and Lady Churchill and party, Lady Churchill passing as Miss Spencer, and General Grey as Dr. Grey! Brown once forgot this, and called me "Your Majesty...
Página 58 - Since it has pleased Providence to place me in this station, I shall do my utmost to fulfill my duty towards my country; I am very young, and perhaps in many, though not in all things, inexperienced; but I am sure that very few have more real good will and more real desire to do what is fit and right than I have.
Página 277 - I am also anxious to repeat one thing, and that one is my firm resolve, my irrevocable decision, viz. that his wishes - his plans - about everything, his views about every thing are to be my law\ And no human power will make me swerve from what he decided and wished - and I look to you to support and help me in this.