The Queens of England: A Series of Portraits of Distinguished Female SovereignsD. Appleton & Company, 1854 - 323 Seiten |
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... beauty . Matthew Paris says she was " very fair , and elegant in person , as well as learned , holy , and wise . " These qualities , combined with her high lineage , rendered her doubtless an object of attraction to the Norman princes ...
... beauty . Matthew Paris says she was " very fair , and elegant in person , as well as learned , holy , and wise . " These qualities , combined with her high lineage , rendered her doubtless an object of attraction to the Norman princes ...
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... beauty was still unimpaired , though her cha- racter was in low esteem with the world . Motives of interest induced Henry to feign a return to the passion of queen Eleanora ; his mother's cause was hopeless in England , and Eleanora ...
... beauty was still unimpaired , though her cha- racter was in low esteem with the world . Motives of interest induced Henry to feign a return to the passion of queen Eleanora ; his mother's cause was hopeless in England , and Eleanora ...
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... beauty of Berengaria , but his engagement to the fair and frail Alice of France prevented him from offering her his hand . No one can marvel that the love of the ardent Richard should be strengthened , when he met the beautiful , the ...
... beauty of Berengaria , but his engagement to the fair and frail Alice of France prevented him from offering her his hand . No one can marvel that the love of the ardent Richard should be strengthened , when he met the beautiful , the ...
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... - pearance of a double crown ; perhaps because she was crowned queen of Cyprus as well as England . Our antiquaries affirm that the peculiar character of Berengaria's elegant but singular style of beauty , 5 BERENGARIA 33 OF NAVARRE .
... - pearance of a double crown ; perhaps because she was crowned queen of Cyprus as well as England . Our antiquaries affirm that the peculiar character of Berengaria's elegant but singular style of beauty , 5 BERENGARIA 33 OF NAVARRE .
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... beauty , brings conviction to every one that looks on her effigy , that it is a carefully finished portrait . At his marriage , king Richard proclaimed a grand feast . " To Limoussa the lady was led , His feast the king did cry ...
... beauty , brings conviction to every one that looks on her effigy , that it is a carefully finished portrait . At his marriage , king Richard proclaimed a grand feast . " To Limoussa the lady was led , His feast the king did cry ...
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
abbey afterwards ambassador Anne Boleyn Anne of Bohemia archbishop attended beauty Berengaria betrothed bishop Bretagne bride brother brought Calais Castle chamber Charles child chronicler church consort coronation council countess court crown daughter death declared duchess duke earl Edward IV eldest Eleanor of Provence Elizabeth Elizabeth Woodville English fair father French gave Gloucester gold hand heart Henry VIII Henry's honor husband infant Isabella Isabella of France Joanna John Katharine Parr king Edward king Henry king of England king of France king Richard king's knights lady Lancaster land London lord Louis Margaret of Anjou Marguerite marriage married Mary Matilda monarch Mortimer mother noble palace parliament passion person Philippa prince of Wales princess Provence queen Eleanora queen Margaret queen of England received reign rendered residence says Scotland sent sister sovereign throne Tower uncle Warwick Westminster Westminster Palace widow wife Windsor York young king young queen
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 10 - And bade to form her infant mind. Stern, rugged Nurse ! thy rigid lore With patience many a year she bore ; What sorrow was, thou bad'st her know, And from her own she learn'd to melt at others
Seite 275 - Christ was the word that spake it, He took the bread and brake it, And what that word did make it, That I believe and take it.
Seite 277 - ... were the four evangelists and the apostle St. Paul, who had been long shut up in an unknown tongue, as it were in prison ; so as they could not converse with the common people. The queen answered very gravely, that it was best first to inquire of them, whether they would be released or no.
Seite 207 - Alas ! my lords," answered the queen,2 "is it now a question whether I be the king's lawful wife or no, when I have been married to him almost twenty years and no objection made before ? Divers prelates and lords, privy councillors of the king, are yet alive who then adjudged our marriage good and lawful ; and now to say it is detestable is a great marvel to me ; especially when I consider what a wise prince the king's father was, and also the natural love and affection my father, king Ferdinand,...
Seite 318 - Compton's designation, and not its evaporation, being known, could not make her way between the scornful backs and elbows of her late devotees, nor could approach nearer to the Queen than the third or fourth row ; but no sooner was she descried by her Majesty than the Queen said aloud, " There, I am sure, I see a friend !" The torrent divided and shrunk to either side ; " and as I came away," said my mother, " I might have walked over their heads if I had pleased.
Seite 277 - Basilides, his son Theodore revoked the patent which the English enjoyed for a monopoly of the Russian trade : When the queen remonstrated against this innovation, he told her ministers that princes must carry an indifferent hand, as well between their subjects as between foreigners; and not convert trade, which by the laws of nations ought to be common to all, into a monopoly for the private gain of a few.
Seite 84 - The king soon after, by the advice of his council, ordered his mother to be confined in a goodly castle, and gave her plenty of ladies to wait upon her, as well as knights and squires of honour.
Seite 214 - Bapin. of virtuous instruction, they gave her teachers in playing on musical instruments, singing and dancing, insomuch that when she composed her hands to play and her voice to sing, it was joined with that sweetness of countenance that three harmonies concurred ; likewise when she danced, her rare proportions varied themselves into all the graces that belong either to rest or motion- Briefly, it seems that the most attractive perfections were eminent in her.
Seite 282 - ... dainty tablet, the Queen espying it asked what fine jewel that was. The Lady Derby was curious to excuse the shewing of it ; but the Queen would have it, and opening it and finding it to be Mr Secretary's, snatched it away, and tied it upon her shoe, and walked long with it there; then she took it thence, and pinned it on her elbow, and wore it some time there also, which Mr.
Seite 282 - Our queen is troubled with a rheum in her arm, which vexeth her very much, besides the grief she hath conceived for my lord of Essex's death. She sleepeth. not so much by day as she used, neither taketh rest by night. Her delight is to sit in the dark, and sometimes with shedding tears, to bewail Essex.