 | John William Clayton - 1859 - 464 pages
...few, but vigorous touches : " She was a woman of great beauty," he says, " but most enormously vicious and ravenous ; foolish but imperious ; very uneasy...master of himself, nor capable of minding business." From the moment of his Restoration, the King had been advised by his friends to select a fitting consort,'... | |
 | John Langton Sanford, Meredith White Townsend - 1865 - 406 pages
...1709, of dropsy. Burnet says of her : " She was a woman of great beauty, but most enormously vicious and ravenous ; foolish, but imperious ; very uneasy to the King, and always carrying on in* Vide anted, under " the Stanhopes." trigues with other men, while yet she pretended she was jealous... | |
 | George Steinman Steinman - 1871 - 274 pages
...Duchess, gives this character of her : " She was a woman of great beauty, but most enormously vicious and ravenous ; foolish, but imperious ; very uneasy...often he was not master of himself, nor capable of business, which, in so critical a time, required great application." Another contemporary of hers,... | |
 | Anthony Hamilton - 1876 - 552 pages
...in her 69th year. Bishop Burnet says, " she was a woman of great beauty, but most enormously vicious and ravenous ; foolish, but imperious ; very uneasy...men, while yet she pretended she was jealous of him. Hia passion for her, and her strange behaviour towards him, did so disorder him, that often he was... | |
 | Joseph Fitzgerald Molloy - 1885 - 352 pages
...whilst admitting her beauty, proclaims her defects. She was, he relates, ' most enormously vicious and ravenous, foolish but imperious, very uneasy to...always carrying on intrigues with other men, while she yet pretended she was jealous of him.' Pepys testifies likewise to her physical attractions so... | |
 | Peter Cunningham - 1892 - 338 pages
...Walter. Bishop Burnet wrote of her : ' She was a woman of great beauty, but most enormously vicious and ravenous ; foolish but imperious ; very uneasy...often he was not master of himself, nor capable of business which in so critical a time required great application.' There is ample evidence that this... | |
 | Andrew Marvell - 1892 - 320 pages
...Cleveland. She died in 1709. Burnet says, " She was a woman of great beauty, but more enormously vicious and ravenous ; foolish, but imperious ; very uneasy...men, while yet she pretended she was jealous of him." P. 23, 1. So. Lady Castlemaine was charged with intrigues with Jacob Hall, an athletic rope-dancer,... | |
 | Peter Cunningham - 1896 - 298 pages
...Burnet wrote of her : ' She was a woman of great beauty, but most enormously vicious and ravenously foolish but imperious ; very uneasy to the King, and...often he was not master of himself, nor capable of business which in so critical a time required great application.' There is ample evidence that this... | |
 | Gilbert Burnet - 1897 - 666 pages
...Cleveland, privately printed, 1871. ever uneasy to the king, and always carrying on intrigues CHAP. I. with other men, while yet she pretended she was jealous...strange behaviour towards him, did so disorder him, that of1en he was not master of himself, nor capable of minding business, which, in' so critical a time,... | |
 | John Heneage Jesse - 1901 - 370 pages
..."The Duchess of Cleveland," says Burnet, "was a woman of great beauty, but most enormously vicious and ravenous, foolish but imperious, very uneasy to...him. His passion for her, and her strange behaviour toward him, did so disorder him that often he was not master of himself nor capable of minding business... | |
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she was a woman of great beauty, but most enormously vicious and ravenous; foolish, but imperious ; very uneasy to the King, and always carrying on intrigues with other men, while yet she pretended she was jealous of him. 
