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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... Prince Regent , who had lately been obliged to abandon his stays , and presented a preposterous figure of debauched 1 Stockmar , Biographische Skizze , and cap . iii . obesity , could ever again , even on the suppo- ANTECEDENTS 7.
... Prince Regent , who had lately been obliged to abandon his stays , and presented a preposterous figure of debauched 1 Stockmar , Biographische Skizze , and cap . iii . obesity , could ever again , even on the suppo- ANTECEDENTS 7.
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... figure he was . ” A few days later , at Brussels , Mr. Creevey himself had an unfortunate experience . A mili- tary school was to be inspected - before breakfast . The company assembled ; everything was highly satisfactory ; but the ...
... figure he was . ” A few days later , at Brussels , Mr. Creevey himself had an unfortunate experience . A mili- tary school was to be inspected - before breakfast . The company assembled ; everything was highly satisfactory ; but the ...
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... figure , ' and La- blache , to train the piping treble upon his own rich bass . The Dean of Chester , the official pre- ceptor , continued his endless instruction in Scrip- ture history , while the Duchess of Northumber- land , the ...
... figure , ' and La- blache , to train the piping treble upon his own rich bass . The Dean of Chester , the official pre- ceptor , continued his endless instruction in Scrip- ture history , while the Duchess of Northumber- land , the ...
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... figure . Albert , who is just as tall as Ernest but stouter , is extremely handsome ; his hair is about the same colour as mine ; his eyes are large and blue , and he has a beautiful nose and a very sweet mouth with fine teeth ; but the ...
... figure . Albert , who is just as tall as Ernest but stouter , is extremely handsome ; his hair is about the same colour as mine ; his eyes are large and blue , and he has a beautiful nose and a very sweet mouth with fine teeth ; but the ...
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... figure , lost in the large shadow of her mother's domination . The preceding year had in fact been an important one in her development . The soft tendrils of her mind had for the first time be- gun to stretch out towards unchildish ...
... figure , lost in the large shadow of her mother's domination . The preceding year had in fact been an important one in her development . The soft tendrils of her mind had for the first time be- gun to stretch out towards unchildish ...
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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.