Memoirs of Celebrated Female SovereignsHarper, 1854 - Queens |
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Page 43 - When the boor had ended his speech, he waddled up to the queen without any ceremony, took her by the hand, and shaked it heartily, and kissed it two or three times; then turning his back to her, he pulled out of his pocket a foul handkerchief, and wiped the tears from his eyes ; and in the same posture as he came up, he returned back to his place again.
Page 135 - Everything in this court is running into the last confusion and ruin, where there are as visible signs of folly and madness as ever were inflicted on a people whom Heaven is determined to destroy, no less by domestic divisions than by the more public calamities of repeated defeats, defencelessness, poverty, plague, and famine.
Page 108 - I had the honour to wait on your majesty, your usage of me was such, as was scarce possible for me to imagine, or for anybody to believe ; yet I cannot hear of so great a misfortune and affliction to you, as the condition in which the prince is, without coming to pay my duty...
Page 182 - Art which nourishes all other arts,' and founded a society of agriculture at Milan, with bounties to the peasants who obtained the best crops. She confined the rights of the chase, often so pernicious to the husbandman, within narrow limits, and issued a decree, enjoining all the nobles who kept wild game to maintain their fences in good repair, permitting the peasants to destroy the wild boars which ravaged the fields.
Page 192 - with extreme sensibility, the breaking out of a new war. My age and my earnest desire for maintaining peace are well known ; and I cannot give a more convincing proof than by the present proposal. My maternal heart is justly alarmed for the safety of my two sons and my son-in-law, who are in the army. I have taken this step without the knowledge of my son the emperor, and I entreat, whatever may be the event, that you will not divulge it. I am anxious to recommence and terminate the negotiation...
Page 108 - Though the last time I had the honour to wait upon your Majesty your usage of me was such as was scarce possible for me to imagine, or for...
Page 111 - ... death .the thought shrinks from. On some occasions, whole battalions were blown up into the air, and their limbs scattered to a distance, like lava from a volcano. It was more like a contest of fiends, carried on in an infernal labyrinth, than the combat of men and soldiers ; and let it be remembered...
Page 113 - I am confident you will suffer in this world or the next, for so much inhumanity." The queen was roused to indignation by this unpremeditated insult, and replying, " that is my business,
Page 144 - With unexpected legions bursts away, And sees defenceless realms receive his sway : Short sway! fair Austria spreads her mournful charms, The queen, the beauty, sets the world in arms ; From hill to hill the...
Page 117 - And temple rise — then fall again to dust. Last night, her lord was all that's good and great; A knave this morning, and his will a cheat. Strange! by the means defeated of the ends, By spirit robb'd of power, by warmth of friends, By wealth of followers ! without one distress Sick of herself, through very selfishness ! Atossa, curs'd with every granted prayer, Childless with all her children, wants an heir. To heirs unknown descends th' unguarded store, Or wanders, Heaven-directed, to the poor.