 Queen," wrote one who had seen her, " howsoever little of stature, is of spirit and vigour, and seems of more than ordinary resolution. With one frown, divers of us being at Whitehall to see her, being at dinner, and the room somewhat overheated with...  The New Monthly Magazine and Humorist - Page 5111848Full view - About this book
 | Isaac Disraeli - 1823 - 334 pages
...religion," a circumstance that Henrietta would have as zealously regretted for Sir Symonds himself! " she drove us all out of the chamber. I suppose none but a queen could have cast such a scowl *." We may already detect the fair waxen mask melting away on the features it covered, even in one... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - 1823 - 338 pages
...Henrietta would have as zealously regretted for Sir Symonds himself! AND HIS QUEEN HENRIETTA. 247 " she drove us all out of the chamber. I suppose none but a queen could have cast such a scowl *." We may already detect the fair waxen mask melting away on the features it covered, even in one... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - 1828 - 428 pages
...with a terror of Papistry ! The Queen at dinner feeling inconvenienced by the heat and the company, " drove us all out of the chamber. I suppose none but a Queen could have cast such a scowl." Nature had formed Henrietta to be charming and haughty ; a volatile, vivacious woman, who sometimes... | |
 | Charles Chadwicke Jones - 1828 - 540 pages
...one of her " frowns." The room in which the queen was at dinner being somewhat overheated with the o fire and company, " she drove us all out of the chamber. I suppose none but a queen could have such a scowl f!" We may already detect the fair waxen mask melting away on the features it covered,... | |
 | Edward Wedlake Brayley - 1828 - 448 pages
...Hall to see her (being at dinner, and the roome somewhat overheated with the fire and companie), •he drove us all out of the Chamber. I suppose none but a Queen could have cast such a scowl l" " On Munday last, about Three afternoone, passing to the Queen's side, and finding some Frenchmen,... | |
 | Edward Wedlake Brayley - 1829 - 434 pages
...White Hall to see her (being at dinner, and the roome somewhat overheated with the fire and companie), she drove us all out of the Chamber. I suppose none but % Queen could have cast such a scowl!" • a " On Munday last, about Three after noone, the Kin? passing... | |
 | 1839 - 756 pages
...she drove us all out of the chamber, the room being somewhat overheated witli the fire and company. I suppose none but a queen could have cast such a scowl." That year the plague was awful in London. Two thousand seven hundred and forty-one persons died in... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - 1833 - 392 pages
...resolution;' and he adds an incident of one of her 'frowns.' The room in which the queen was at dinner being somewhat overheated with the fire and company, ' she...suppose none but a queen could have cast such a scowl.' * We may already detect the fair waxen mask melting away on the features it covered, even in one short... | |
 | John Heneage Jesse - 1840 - 530 pages
...but full of spirit and vigour, and seems of a more than ordinary resolution. With one frown, diverse of us being at Whitehall to see her, being at dinner,...suppose none but a Queen could have cast such a scowl."* Henrietta was not crowned with her husband. It was demanded that the ceremony should be performed according... | |
 | 1841 - 500 pages
...but full of spirit and vigour, and seems of a more than ordinary resolution. With one frown, diverse of us being at Whitehall to see her. being at dinner,...suppose none but a queen could have cast such a scowl." Henrietta was not crowned with her husband. It was demanded that the ceremony should be performed according... | |
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