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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... asking ; but at last he thought of a solution . " Damme , Freemantle , find out the mayor and let him do it . " So the Mayor of Valenciennes was brought up for the purpose , and so we learn from Mr. Creevey- " a capital figure he was ...
... asking ; but at last he thought of a solution . " Damme , Freemantle , find out the mayor and let him do it . " So the Mayor of Valenciennes was brought up for the purpose , and so we learn from Mr. Creevey- " a capital figure he was ...
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... asked by what name he was to baptise the child , the Regent replied " Alexandria . " At this the Duke ventured to suggest that another name might be added , Certainly , " said the Regent ; " Georgina ? " " Or Elizabeth ? " said the Duke ...
... asked by what name he was to baptise the child , the Regent replied " Alexandria . " At this the Duke ventured to suggest that another name might be added , Certainly , " said the Regent ; " Georgina ? " " Or Elizabeth ? " said the Duke ...
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... asked by the King to go down to Windsor . George IV , who had transferred his fraternal ill- temper to his sister - in - law and her family , had at last grown tired of sulking , and decided to be agreeable . The old rip , bewigged and ...
... asked by the King to go down to Windsor . George IV , who had transferred his fraternal ill- temper to his sister - in - law and her family , had at last grown tired of sulking , and decided to be agreeable . The old rip , bewigged and ...
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... asked on . Her adherence to truth is of so marked a character that I feel no apprehension of that Bulwark being broken down by any circumstances . " The Bish- ops attended at the Palace , and the result of their examination was all that ...
... asked on . Her adherence to truth is of so marked a character that I feel no apprehension of that Bulwark being broken down by any circumstances . " The Bish- ops attended at the Palace , and the result of their examination was all that ...
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... asked him one day at dinner . " Water , sir . " ' God damn it , sir ! " was the re- joinder . " Why don't you drink wine ? I never allow anybody to drink water at my table . " 1 It was clear that before very long there would be a great ...
... asked him one day at dinner . " Water , sir . " ' God damn it , sir ! " was the re- joinder . " Why don't you drink wine ? I never allow anybody to drink water at my table . " 1 It was clear that before very long there would be a great ...
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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.