Memoirs of Spain during the reigns of Philip iv. and Charles ii., 1620 to 1700, Volume 1 |
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Page 355 - Wentworth, and what exiled Hyde, By kings protected, and to kings allied ? What but their wish indulged in courts to shine, And power too great to keep, or to resign...
Page 327 - Lurked in her hand, and mourned his captive Queen: He springs to Vengeance with an eager pace, And falls like thunder on the prostrate Ace. The nymph exulting fills with shouts the sky; The walls, the woods, and long canals reply.
Page 200 - That part of the island we had landed on was a narrow ridge, not above a musket-shot across, bounded on one side by the sea, and on the other by a creek, extending upwards of a mile inland, and nearly communicating with the sea at its head.
Page 91 - ... their submissive reverence to their princes being a vital part of their religion.'"* Seeing that he was hated there, and fearing that his absence from London would give power to some other court plotter, of which he had cognizance, he hastened the prince homeward ; and on his return succeeded so far in implicating others and defending himself, that his praises were sung by the populace...
Page 75 - ... There are comedians once a week come to the palace, where, under a great canopy, the queen and the infanta sit in the middle, our prince and Don Carlos on the queen's right hand, the king and the little cardinal on the infanta's left hand. I have seen the prince have his eyes immoveably fixed upon the infanta half an hour together in a thoughtful, speculative posture, which sure would needs be tedious unless affection did sweeten it.
Page 60 - Fair laughs the morn, and soft the zephyr blows, While proudly riding o'er the azure realm In gallant trim the gilded vessel goes, YOUTH at the prow and PLEASURE at the helm; Regardless of the sweeping whirlwind's sway, That hush'd in grim repose, expects its evening prey. (In which, by the bye, the words "realm
Page 456 - I could, out of pretence of not incommoding his wife by taking her place, he told me she should lie on a quilt before the fire with her sister, and that it concerned his safety to share his bed with me, without which his enemies would cut his throat, the respect of my person being the only means to secure him from that danger, whose apprehension had so strongly prepossessed him, that he awaked twenty times in the night in disorder, and, with tears in his eyes, embracing...
Page 601 - Gervais, the surgeon, wept, and said to Fagon, "You have resolved, then, that my Mistress shall die by my hand!" Fagon had her blooded at eleven o'clock; at noon he gave her an emetic, and three hours afterwards she was dead. It may be truly said that with her died all the happiness of France. The King was deeply grieved by this event, which that old villain Fagon brought about expressly for the purpose of confirming that mischievous old woman's fortune. After the Queen's death I also happened to...
Page 363 - ... to enjoy the delight and empire of a favourite. In the most ordinary occurrences, which, for the difficulty, required little deliberation, and in the nature of them required expedition, he would give no order without formal consultation with the rest of the council; which hindered despatch, and made his parts the more suspected, and his power the more grumbled and murmured at.
Page 551 - And trulj upon this occasion, I cannot but do the memory of the Cardinal that right to affirm, that he had been a very ill minister if he had not made that treaty with Cromwell in such a juncture of affairs ; and the King of France would have had just reason to be ill-satisfied with him, if he had missed that opportunity.