 | J. S. Forsyth - 1825 - 422 lehte
...ridiculous History of my Lord Newcastle, wrote by his wife : which shows her to be a mad, conceited, and ridiculous woman, and he an asse to suffer her to write what she writes to him and of him." In June, Mr. Pepys is on an excursion through Wilts and Somersetshire, and he tells us, at Bath, that... | |
 | Samuel Pepys - 1828 - 486 lehte
...the better of Holmes in the late dispute, and is in good esteem in the Parliament above the other. Thence home, and there in favour to my eyes staid...suffer her to write what she writes to him and of him. So to bed, my eyes being very bad ; and I know not how in the world to abstain from reading. 19th.... | |
 | Edward Wedlake Brayley - 1829 - 456 lehte
...estimable of her productions," though abounding " in trifling circumstances," Pepys thus writes ; — " Staid at home reading the ridiculous History of my...suffer her to write what she writes to him and of him. "t There is a story current, that the Duke, when in a peevish humour, being once complimented by a... | |
 | 1893 - 840 lehte
...Newcastle, wrote by his wife, which shows her to be a mad, conceited, ridiculous woman, and he an ass to suffer her to write what she writes to him and of him." a No doubt the publication of so laudatory a biography as that of the duke, during its subject's life,... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1847 - 458 lehte
...Newcastle, wrote by his wife; which shows her to be a mad, conceited, ridiculous woman, and he an ass to suffer her to write what she writes to him and of him." One would almost suppose that the excitable Secre D2 tary to the Admiralty had received some unrecorded... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele - 1853 - 610 lehte
...166S. Thence home and there in favor to my eyes staid at home, reading the ridiculous History of mv Lord Newcastle, wrote by his wife, which shows her...respectful and affectionate attention. Charles Lamb, in his " Essays of Elia," when speaking of the binding of a book, observes, " But where a book is at once... | |
 | John Saunders - 1858 - 806 lehte
...home reading the ridiculous history of my Lord Newcastle, wrote by his wife, which shows her to 1« a mad, conceited, ridiculous woman ; and he an asse...suffer her to write what she writes to him and of him. The picture he paints of the duchess, whom he seems tu have run after with flunkey-like curiosity,... | |
 | John Maw Darton - 1866 - 334 lehte
...Newcastle, wrote by his wife ; which shows her to be a mad, conceited, ridiculous woman, and he an ass to suffer her to write what she writes to him and of him." What did the sapient Pepys write of himself? — fulsome nonsense, not so excusable as kind words —... | |
 | Samuel Pepys - 1867 - 516 lehte
...Duchess, of which the first edition, in folio, had just been published. wife, which shows her to he a mad, conceited, ridiculous woman, and he an asse...suffer her to write what she writes to him, and of him. So to hed, my eyes heing very bad ; and I know not how in the world to abstain from reading. 19th.... | |
 | John Timbs - 1872 - 598 lehte
...adomed with silver instead of gold, and snow-white curtains, and everything black and white. Stayed at home reading the ridiculous history of my Lord...suffer her to write what she writes to him and of him." On the loth of April, 1667, King Charles and his Queen • • Abridged from D'Isracli's Curiosities... | |
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Newcastle,' wrote by his wife, which shows her to be a mad, conceited, ridiculous woman, and he an asse to suffer her to write what she writes to him, and of him. 
