Diary Illustrative of the Times of George the Fourth: Interspersed with Original Letters from the Late Queen Caroline, and from Various Other Distinguished Persons, Volume 4

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Page 324 - And his majesty has since used, and continues to use, his most anxious endeavours and good offices to allay the irritation unhappily subsisting between the French and Spanish governments : and to avert, if possible, the calamity of war between France and Spain.
Page 273 - ... they say it is the fatal destiny of that land, that no purposes whatsoever which are meant for her good, will prosper or take good effect : which, whether it proceed from the very genius of the soil or influence of the stars, or that Almighty God hath not yet appointed the time of her reformation, or that He reserveth her in this unquiet state still, for some secret scourge, which shall by her come unto England, it is hard to be known, but yet much to be feared.
Page 51 - He was all couleur de rose last evening, and very pleasant ; he sat beside me at supper, and we were very merry ; he is quite anoder man when he is wid people he like, and who like him, than he is when he is wid oders who do not please him so well. I always tell him there are two Lord Byrons, and when I invite him, I say, I ask the agreeable Lord, not the disagreeable one. He take my plaisanterie all in good part, and I flatter myself I am rather a favourite with this great bard.
Page 21 - ... piquant, that it does not require the adventitious aids of mystery and adventure.
Page 357 - The world forgets to bear in mind, that the race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, and naturally looks upon success as the criterion of ability.
Page 32 - ... and perhaps the babe Who opens, as thou closest thine, his eyes On this eventful world, when aged grown, Musing on times gone by, shall sigh and say, Shaking his thin grey hairs whitened with grief, " Our fathers
Page 90 - You are in de paradise of de fools," so me let him sigh on to My Lady Oxford, which do torment Lord Byron, who wanted to talk wid her, and never could contrive it. Lady Anne is en petite sante just now ; she is truly interesting ; yet, as your song says, " Nobody's coming to marry her," nor I fear never will; so I and Joan shall live and die together, like two turtle-doves, or rather like dem two foolish women, Lady Eleanor Butler and Mile. Ponsonby, who must be mad, I should tink, to choose to leave...
Page 149 - ... all her rights and privileges in a foreign country, and left almost without any attendants, made her feel very melancholy. I never can understand how Queen Charlotte dared refuse to receive the Princess of Wales at the public drawing-room, any more than she would any other lady, of whom nothing had been publicly proved against her character. Of one thing there can be no doubt, — the Queen is the slave of the Regent.
Page 94 - I wonder my head is not quite bewildered wid all I have suffered — and it is not over yet wid me. Dat cruel personage will never let me have peace so long as I stay in dis country: his rancune is boundless against me. "I was sure you would rejoice at my glory, dear ; no one has been more true to me dan yourself at all times, and you have not wasted your interest on an ingrate, I assure you.
Page 93 - I shall live. No one, in fact, care for me ; and this business has been more cared for as a political affair, dan as de cause of a poor forlorn woman.