 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 and of him." On the other hand, Charles Lamb  Catalogue of Rare Books - Page 31by Ellis (Firm) - 1728Full view - About this book
 | J. S. Forsyth - Great Britain - 1825 - 422 pages
...resolved to 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...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... | |
 | J. S. Forsyth - Great Britain - 1825 - 834 pages
...resolved to 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...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... | |
 | Anniversary calendar - Almanacs, English - 1832 - 548 pages
...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 Lord...to be a mad, conceited, ridiculous 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,... | |
 | Charles Knight - London (England) - 1844 - 438 pages
...multitude of high-flown and most unreadable works; of whose history of her husband Pepys says, that it " shows her to be a mad, conceited, ridiculous woman, and he an ass to suffer her to write what she writes to him, and of him ;" and of whose [Shaflesbury Iljuse-,... | |
 | Literature - 1846 - 636 pages
...to the biography of лет husband :— " 18th March, 1668.—Home, and, in favor to my eyes, staid reading the ridiculous history of my Lord Newcastle,...to be a mad, conceited, ridiculous woman, and he an ass to suffer her to write what she writes to and of him." The plays, poems, letters, essays, and philosophical... | |
 | James Anthony Froude, John Tulloch - Authors - 1846 - 828 pages
...to 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... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1847 - 458 pages
...indignation by her biography of her husband. He read the book in March, 1668, and describes it as " the ridiculous History of my Lord Newcastle, wrote...to be a mad, conceited, ridiculous woman, and he an ass to suffer her to write what she writes to him and of V\\m"' On e would almost suppose that the... | |
 | Joseph Curtis Platt, George Lillie Craik - London (England) - 1851 - 868 pages
...multitude of high-flown and most unreadable works ; of whose history of her husband Pepys says, that it " shows her to be a mad, conceited, ridiculous woman, and he an ass to suffer her to write what she writes to him, and of him ;" and of whose [Sh;iftt!»biiry House,... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele - American periodicals - 1853 - 610 pages
...impressions on reading the work :— • 18th of March, 1668. Thence home and there in favor 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... | |
 | Books - 1853 - 446 pages
...impressions on reading the work:— " 18th of March 1668. Thence home and there in favour to my eyes staid at home, reading the ridiculous History of my Lord Newcastle, wrote bv his wife, which shows her to be a mad, conceited, ridiculous woman, and he an asje to suffer her... | |
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