Some Account of the Life of Rachael Wriothesley, Lady Russell |
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... telling Comminges ( of whose abilities he expresses no good opinion ) ( 1 ) " Les ministres d'etat etoient inaccessibles pour " tout autre que pour lui ( Ruvigny ) on , s'ils faisoient à " quelqu'autre la grace de l'ecouter , ils lui ...
... telling Comminges ( of whose abilities he expresses no good opinion ) ( 1 ) " Les ministres d'etat etoient inaccessibles pour " tout autre que pour lui ( Ruvigny ) on , s'ils faisoient à " quelqu'autre la grace de l'ecouter , ils lui ...
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... telling Barillon- " Je ne veux pas empecher que M. de Ruvigny ne vienne ici , mais " Milord Russell aura le col coupé avant qu'il " arrive . " ( 1 ) 66 The fact , however , of this letter having been ever promised , is more than ...
... telling Barillon- " Je ne veux pas empecher que M. de Ruvigny ne vienne ici , mais " Milord Russell aura le col coupé avant qu'il " arrive . " ( 1 ) 66 The fact , however , of this letter having been ever promised , is more than ...
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... tell but my Lord Vaughan 66 so , and I shall know it before the letter be " given . If it be seasonable to move in the other , I presume your Lordship will not for- 66 get me . 66 " I hear the serjeant has been troublesome " to your ...
... tell but my Lord Vaughan 66 so , and I shall know it before the letter be " given . If it be seasonable to move in the other , I presume your Lordship will not for- 66 get me . 66 " I hear the serjeant has been troublesome " to your ...
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... thing that is put on paper . I must " tell your Ladyship , there has been such a stir 66 kept about setting up the scutcheon , and so " much weight laid upon it by some , who might " have been more sparing for your sake , though 43.
... thing that is put on paper . I must " tell your Ladyship , there has been such a stir 66 kept about setting up the scutcheon , and so " much weight laid upon it by some , who might " have been more sparing for your sake , though 43.
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... tell you , good Doctor , how little 66 capable I have been of such an exercise as " this . You will soon find how unfit I am still " for it ; since my yet disordered thoughts can " offer me no other than such words as express " the ...
... tell you , good Doctor , how little 66 capable I have been of such an exercise as " this . You will soon find how unfit I am still " for it ; since my yet disordered thoughts can " offer me no other than such words as express " the ...
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Page 307 - Thou makest him to have dominion of the works of thy hands, and Thou hast put all things in subjection under his feet...
Page 365 - I come, kind Gentlemen, strange news to tell ye; I am the Ghost of poor departed Nelly. Sweet Ladies, be not frighted; I'le be civil; I'm what I was, a little harmless Devil.
Page 46 - You that knew us both, and how we lived, must allow I have just cause to bewail my loss. I know it is common with others to lose a friend ; but to have lived with such a one, it may be questioned how few can glory in the like happiness, so consequently lament the like loss.
Page 35 - Now the bitterness of death is past," and ran out into a long discourse concerning her — how great a blessing she had been to him ; and said, what a misery it would have been to him, if she had not had that magnanimity of spirit, joined to her tenderness, as never to have desired him to do a base thing for the saving of his life : VOL.
Page 371 - I can never forget the inexpressible luxury and profaneness, gaming, and all dissoluteness, and as it were total forgetfulness of God, (it being Sunday evening,) which this day se'nnight I was witness of, the King sitting and toying with his concubines, Portsmouth, Cleveland...
Page 46 - ... silent under it; but yet secretly my heart mourns, too sadly I fear, and cannot be comforted, because I have not the dear companion and sharer of all my joys and sorrows. I want him to talk with, to walk with, to eat and sleep with. All these things are irksome to me now: the day unwelcome, and the night so too. All company and meals I would avoid, if it might be...
Page 46 - I know I have deserved my punishment, and will be silent under it; but yet secretly my heart mourns, too sadly I fear, and cannot be comforted, because I have not the dear companion and sharer of all my joys and sorrows. I want him to talk with, to walk with, to eat and sleep with; all these things are irksome to me now; the day unwelcome, and the night so, too; all company and meals I would avoid if it might be...
Page 193 - My sister, being here, tells me she overheard you tell her Lord last night, that you would take notice of the business (you know what I mean) in the House ; this alarms me, and I do earnestly beg of you to tell me truly if you have or mean to do it ; if you do, I am most assured you will repent it. I beg once more to know the truth.
Page 66 - The new scenes of each day make me often conclude myself very void of temper and reason, that I still shed tears of sorrow and not of joy, that so good a man is landed safe on the happy shore of a blessed eternity ; doubtless he is at rest, though I find none without him, so true a partner he was in all my joys and griefs...
Page 59 - God has been pitiful to my small grace," she wrote to Dr. Fitzwilliam, " and removed a threatened blow, which must have quickened my sorrows, if not added to them, — the loss of my poor boy. He has been ill, and God has let me see the folly of my imaginations, which made me apt to conclude I had nothing left the deprivation of which could be matter of much anguish, or its possession of any considerable refreshment.