 Thence home, and there, in favour to my eyes, staid at home, reading the ridiculous History of my Lord Newcastle,' wrote by his wife, which shows her to be a mad, conceited, ridiculous woman, and he an asse to suffer her to write what she writes to him,...  Oddities of History: And Strange Stories, for All Classes of Readers - Seite 40von John Timbs - 1872 - 90 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | J. S. Forsyth - 1825 - 422 Seiten
...buy one of them, it being quite through a good discourse. " March 18th. In favour to my eyes staid at home reading the ridiculous History of my Lord...his wife : which shows her to be a mad, conceited, and ridiculous woman, and he an asse to suffer her to write what she writes to him and of him." In... | |
 | Samuel Pepys - 1828 - 486 Seiten
...in good esteem in the Parliament above the other. Thence home, and there in favour to my eyes staid at home reading the ridiculous History of my Lord...to be a mad, conceited, ridiculous woman, and he an asse to suffer her to write what she writes to him and of him. So to bed, my eyes being very bad ;... | |
 | Edward Wedlake Brayley - 1829 - 456 Seiten
...of her productions," though abounding " in trifling circumstances," Pepys thus writes ; — " Staid at home reading the ridiculous History of my Lord...to be a mad, conceited, ridiculous woman, and he an asse to suffer her to write what she writes to him and of him. "t There is a story current, that the... | |
 | Edward Wedlake Brayley - 1829 - 452 Seiten
...of her productions," though abounding " in trifling circumstances," Pepys thus writes ; — " Staid at home reading the ridiculous History of my Lord...Newcastle, wrote by his wife ; which shows her to be a mm], couceited, ridiculous woman, and he an asse to suffer her to write what she writes to him and... | |
 | Anniversary calendar - 1832 - 548 Seiten
...French man of war had plundered the vessel before. " In favour to my eyes (says Pepys, in 1667,) I stayed at home reading the ridiculous History of my...woman, and he an ass to suffer her to write what she does about him." Again : " The whole story of this lady is a romance, and all she does is romantic.... | |
 | 1893 - 840 Seiten
...must have been followed by a more than usually sad morning), calls the duchess's best-known work " the ridiculous history of my Lord Newcastle, wrote...ass to suffer her to write what she writes to him and of him." a No doubt the publication of so laudatory a biography as that of the duke, during its... | |
 | 1846 - 608 Seiten
...to the biography of her husband : — " ISth March, 1668.— Home, and, in favor to my eyes, stayed reading the ridiculous history of my Lord Newcastle,...he an ass to suffer her to write what she writes to and of him." The plays, poems, letters, essays, and philosophical fancies of the duchess fill some... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1846 - 620 Seiten
...to the biography of her husband : — " 18th March, 1663.— Home, and, in favor to my eyes, stayed reading the ridiculous history of my Lord Newcastle,...he an ass to suffer her to write what she writes to and of him." The plays, poems, letters, essays, and philosophical fancies of the duchess fill some... | |
 | 1846 - 782 Seiten
...the biography of her husband : — " 18(/i March, 1668. — Home, and, in favour to my eyes, staid reading the ridiculous history of my Lord Newcastle, wrote by his wife ; which shews her to be a mad, conceited, ridiculous woman, and he an ass to suffer her to write what she writes... | |
 | James Anthony Froude, John Tulloch - 1846 - 828 Seiten
...the biography of her husband : — " 18</i March, 1668. — Home, and, in favour to my eyes, staid reading the ridiculous history of my Lord Newcastle, wrote by his wife ; which shews her to be a mad, conceited, ridiculous woman, and he an ass to suffer her to write what she writes... | |
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