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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... sovereigns - it was June , 1814 - arrived in London to celebrate their victory . Among them , in the suite of the Emperor of Russia , was the young and handsome Prince Leopold of Saxe - Coburg . He made sev- eral attempts to attract the ...
... sovereigns - it was June , 1814 - arrived in London to celebrate their victory . Among them , in the suite of the Emperor of Russia , was the young and handsome Prince Leopold of Saxe - Coburg . He made sev- eral attempts to attract the ...
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... sovereign rights . During the disturbed years which followed the French Revo- lution , its affairs became terribly involved . The Duke was extravagant , and kept open house for the swarms of refugees , who fled eastward 1 Creevey , I ...
... sovereign rights . During the disturbed years which followed the French Revo- lution , its affairs became terribly involved . The Duke was extravagant , and kept open house for the swarms of refugees , who fled eastward 1 Creevey , I ...
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... Sovereign should live for others ; so that when Her innocent mind receives the impression of Her future fate , she receives it with a mind formed to be sensible of what is to be expected from Her , and it is to be hoped , she will be ...
... Sovereign should live for others ; so that when Her innocent mind receives the impression of Her future fate , she receives it with a mind formed to be sensible of what is to be expected from Her , and it is to be hoped , she will be ...
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... sovereign or his consort on board.1 When King William quarrelled with his Whig Ministers the situation grew still more embittered , 1 Greville , III , 321 , 324 . for now the Duchess , in addition to her other 56 QUEEN VICTORIA.
... sovereign or his consort on board.1 When King William quarrelled with his Whig Ministers the situation grew still more embittered , 1 Greville , III , 321 , 324 . for now the Duchess , in addition to her other 56 QUEEN VICTORIA.
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... sovereign - as the next few years were to show - it is often imaginary . Considering all things — the characters of the per- sons , and the character of the times - it was some- thing more than a mere matter of private interest that the ...
... sovereign - as the next few years were to show - it is often imaginary . Considering all things — the characters of the per- sons , and the character of the times - it was some- thing more than a mere matter of private interest that the ...
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Página 347 - You have heard me called a flatterer," he said to Matthew Arnold, "and it is true. Everyone likes flattery; and when you come to royalty you should lay it on with a trowel.
Página 193 - 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 122 - 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 85 - 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 363 - Oh, if the Queen were a man, she would like to go and give those Russians, whose word one cannot believe, such a beating! We shall never be friends again till we have it out. This the Queen feels sure of.
Página 420 - From my heart I thank my beloved people. May God bless them!
Página 410 - 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 268 - 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 304 - 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.
Página 69 - 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.