| Sir Charles Hanbury Williams - 1822 - 464 Seiten
...That they too did the same. * The reconciliation between the Royalties is finished, and £.50',000 a year more added to the Heir Apparent'* revenue;...so well as either Lord Harrington or Lord Hervey, whoboth pretended to her first iavours, had no other charms than being a maid of honour, who was willing... | |
| 1822 - 440 Seiten
...have him ? Does not he consider that whoeverare my ministers, J jiiust be king :" His chief passioa was women, but like the rest of his race, beauty was...been debauched without loving him so well as either Ijord Harrington or Lord Hervey, who both pretended to her first favours, and no other charms than... | |
| 1832 - 592 Seiten
...honour; and Lady Middlesex, who was very short, plain, and yellow. His chief passion, says Walpole, was women ; but, like the rest of his race, beauty was not a necessary ingredient. He was, however, in the same author's opinion, notwithstanding his gross infidelity, a very good husband... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1903 - 666 Seiten
...(see Walpole, Memoirs of George the Second, vol. i. , pp. 180-182). 1 Walpole remarks of Frederic : " His chief passion was women, but, like the rest of his race, beauty was not a necessary ingredient." Lady Middlesex, Mistress of the Robes to the Princess, " was very short, very plain and very yellow,... | |
| Lewis Saul Benjamin - 1907 - 378 Seiten
...was not content to be faithful. " The chief passion of the Prince was women," says Horace Walpole ; " but, like the rest of his race, beauty was not a necessary ingredient." Soon after he came to England he had an intrigue with Anne Vane, the eldest daughter of Gilbert, Baron... | |
| 1907 - 694 Seiten
...was not content to be faithful. " The chief passion of the Prince was women," says Horace Walpole, " but like the rest of his race beauty was not a necessary ingredient." Soon after he came to England he had an intrigue with Anne Vane, the eldest daughter of Gilbert, Baron... | |
| Henry Charles Shelley - 1911 - 478 Seiten
...tastes were not otherwise refined," and that Horace Walpole declared the chief passion of the prince ' ' was women ; but, like the rest of his race, beauty was not a necessary ingredient." As with the quotation from Sir Erasmus Philipps 's diary, the account is best given in its original... | |
| Michael A. Beatty - 2003 - 278 Seiten
...his great-grandfather, he was unable to be faithful to his wife. Horace Walpole (1678-1757) observed: "His chief passion was women, but like the rest of his race, beauty was not a necessary ingredient." Prince Frederick was a man of culture, a patron of the arts and a sportsman. Michael De-la-Noy's The... | |
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