Memoirs of Lady Fanshawe: Wife of Sir Richard Fanshawe, Bart., Ambassador from Charles the Second to the Courts of Portugal and MadridH. Colburn and R. Bentley, 1830 - 332 頁 |
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第 iii 頁
... person whose autobiography , if written with simplicity and truth , would not be both instructive and amusing , must have been unusually monotonous , or he must be destitute of ability to describe it . The writer who merely records what ...
... person whose autobiography , if written with simplicity and truth , would not be both instructive and amusing , must have been unusually monotonous , or he must be destitute of ability to describe it . The writer who merely records what ...
第 vi 頁
... persons are sometimes mis - spelt , and one or two trifling discrepancies occur : of its authenticity , however , no doubt can be entertained . The MS . , from which this volume is printed , was copied , in 1786 , from one written in ...
... persons are sometimes mis - spelt , and one or two trifling discrepancies occur : of its authenticity , however , no doubt can be entertained . The MS . , from which this volume is printed , was copied , in 1786 , from one written in ...
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... In this edition the proper names of persons and places have been carefully corrected , and some additional notes are inserted . 3rd August 1830 . N. H. N. INTRODUCTORY MEMOIR . Ir may , possibly , be thought PREFACE . vii.
... In this edition the proper names of persons and places have been carefully corrected , and some additional notes are inserted . 3rd August 1830 . N. H. N. INTRODUCTORY MEMOIR . Ir may , possibly , be thought PREFACE . vii.
第 1 頁
... persons whose careers are faithfully related in it ; and it may be considered an act of imprudence to place the cold and measured statements of an Editor , in juxta - position with the nervous and glowing narrative of the amiable ...
... persons whose careers are faithfully related in it ; and it may be considered an act of imprudence to place the cold and measured statements of an Editor , in juxta - position with the nervous and glowing narrative of the amiable ...
第 16 頁
... person , Lady Fanshawe imputes the circumstance of his being sent to Portugal to negotiate the marriage with the Princess Katharine , to whom he was charged to pre- sent his Majesty's picture ; but this appointment is strong proof of ...
... person , Lady Fanshawe imputes the circumstance of his being sent to Portugal to negotiate the marriage with the Princess Katharine , to whom he was charged to pre- sent his Majesty's picture ; but this appointment is strong proof of ...
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accompanied afterwards Ambassador arrived bassador brother Cadiz Calais Catholic Majesty ceremony Church coach commanded Conde Court custom daugh daughter death died Duchess Duke of Medina Earl eldest Empress England English entertained Escurial Excellency Excellency's Fanshawe's father favour French gave gentleman give gold Governor grace and favour hath Hertfordshire honour horses husband journey kindness King King's Lady Fanshawe league letter likewise Lisbon lived lodgings London Lord Lord Arlington Lord Chancellor Lord Colepeper Lord Hopton Lord Sandwich Madrid Majesty's Marquis married Master MEMOIRS merchants never night noble palace Paris passed pieces-of-eight Portugal present Prince Privy Counsellor Queen Queen-Mother received returned rich Royal SECRETARY BENNET sent servants Seville ship silver Sir John Sir Richard Fanshawe sister Smythe Spain Spanish stay stilo stilo novo thanks thereof thousand pounds Thursday told took my leave Torres town waited Ware Park wife
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第 98 頁 - I knocked and called long to no purpose, until at length the cabin-boy came and opened the door ; I, all in tears, desired him to be so good as to give me his blue...
第 115 頁 - I would go under his window and softly call him, he, after the first time excepted, never failed to put out his head at the first call, thus we talked together, and sometimes I was so wet with the rain, that it went in at my neck and out at my heels.
第 8 頁 - I shall do well" ; and taking him in his arms said, "Thou hast ever been an honest man, and I hope God will bless thee and make thee a happy servant to my son...
第 26 頁 - That servile path thou nobly dost decline, Of tracing word by word, and line by line: A new and nobler way thou dost pursue, To make translations and translators too: They but preserve the ashes, thou the flame, True to his sense, but truer to his fame.
第 117 頁 - ... instrumental, for aught he knew, to hang them all that sat there, if ever he had opportunity, but if he had liberty for a time, that he might take the engagement before he went out : upon which Cromwell said, ' I never knew that the engagement* was a medicine for the scorbutic.
第 116 頁 - Cromwell, who had a great respect for your father, and would have bought him off to his service upon any terms. ' Being one day to solicit for my husband's liberty for a time, he bid me bring the next day a certificate from a physician, that he was really ill. Immediately I went to Dr. Batters, that was by chance both physician to Cromwell and to our family, who gave me one very favourable in my husband's behalf.
第 135 頁 - King, who came privately without any train.-fAs soon as the King had notice of the Queen's landing, he immediately sent my husband that night to welcome her Majesty on shore, and followed himself the next day ; and upon the 21st of May the King married the Queen at Portsmouth, in the presence-chamber of his Majesty's house. There was a rail across the upper part of the room...
第 302 頁 - ... is inclined to flatter himself, I am desirous to hope that I am not admitted to greater intimacy than others without some qualifications for so advantageous a distinction, and shall think it my duty to justify, by constant respect and sincerity, the favours which you have been pleased to show me. I am, my Lord, Your Excellency's most humble and most obedient Servant, J.
第 80 頁 - I told you, my husband and I went into France, by the way of Portsmouth, where, walking by the sea side about a mile from our lodgings, two ships of the Dutch, then in war with England, shot bullets at us so near that we heard them whiz by us ; at which I called to my husband to make haste back, and began to run, but he altered not his pace, saying, ' If we must be killed, it were as good to be killed walking as running.1...
第 68 頁 - I ; that in the night she knew there came a post from Paris from the queen, and that she would be extremely glad to hear what the queen commanded the king in order to his affairs ; saying, if I would ask my husband privately, he would tell me what he found in the packet, and I might tell her. I, that was young and innocent, and to that day had never in my mouth