The Greville Memoirs (second Part): A Journal of the Reign of Queen Victoria, from 1837 to 1852, Volume 1Longmans, Green, and Company, 1885 - Great Britain |
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Page 201 - It is a high trial to our institutions when the wishes of a Princess of nineteen can overturn a great Ministerial combination, and when the most momentous matters of Government and legislation are influenced by her pleasure about her Ladies of the Bedchamber. The Whigs resigned because they had no longer that...
Page 99 - There never was anything seen like the state of this town ; it is as if the population had been on a sudden quintupled ; the uproar, the confusion, the crowd, the noise, are indescribable. Horsemen, footmen, carnages squeezed, jammed, intermingled, the pavement blocked up with timbers, hammering and knocking, and falling fragments stunning the ears and threatening the head; not a mob here and there, but the town all mob, thronging, bustling, gaping, and gazing at everything, at anything, or at nothing...
Page 51 - Plurimum audaciae ad pericula capessenda, plurimum consilii inter ipsa pericula erat: nullo labore3 aut corpus fatigari, aut animus vinci poterat. Caloris ac frigoris patientia par ; cibi potionisque desiderio naturali, non voluptate, modus finitus : vigiliarum somnique nee die, nee nocte discriminata tempora. Id, quod gerendis rebus superesset, quieti datum : ea neque molli strato, neque silentio arcessita.
Page 142 - Kent's whist table is arranged, and then the round table is marshalled, Melbourne invariably sitting on the left hand of the Queen, and remaining there without moving till the evening is at an end. At about half-past eleven she goes to bed, or whenever the Duchess has played her usual number of rubbers, and the band have performed all the pieces on their list for the night. This is the whole history of her day : she orders and regulates every detail herself, she knows where everybody is lodged in...
Page 174 - ... sensible of kindness and attention, exacting nothing, considerate of others and apparently regardless of self, overflowing with affection and kindness of manner and language to all around him, and exerting all his moral and intellectual energies with a spirit and resolution that never flagged till within a few hours of his dissolution, when nature gave way, and he sank into a tranquil unconsciousness, in which life gently ebbed away. Whatever may have been the error of his life, he closed the...
Page 102 - May I not get up and meet him?' and then rose from the throne and advanced down one or two of the steps to prevent his coming up — an act of graciousness and kindness which made a great sensation. It is in fact the remarkable union of naivete, kindness...
Page 362 - Hastings,' which Macaulay said was the worst book that ever was written; and then the name of Sir Thomas Munro came uppermost. Lady Holland did not know why Sir Thomas Munro was so distinguished; when Macaulay explained all that he had ever said, done, written, or thought, and vindicated his claim to the title of a great man, till Lady Holland got bored with Sir Thomas, told Macaulay she had had enough of Mm, and would have no more.
Page 5 - I was put, a sort of chariot with two places, and there is nothing disagreeable about it but the occasional whiffs of stinking air which it is impossible to exclude altogether. The first sensation is a slight degree of nervousness and a feeling of being run away with, but a sense of security soon supervenes, and the velocity is delightful. Town after town, one park and chateau after another are left behind with the rapid variety of a moving panorama, and the continual bustle and animation of the...
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Page 241 - Gloucester in town, and told her she was to make her declaration the next day, the Duchess asked her if it was not a nervous thing to do. She said, ' Yes; but I did a much more nervous thing a little while ago.