Duchess Sarah: Being the Social History of the Times of Sarah Jennings, Duchess of Marlborough, with Glimpses of Her Life & Anecdotes of Her Contemporaries in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth CenturiesLongmans, Green, and Company, 1904 - 400 strán (strany) |
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... nature . Among his early intrigues , there was one which had a very serious effect upon his after life and that of his country and court - this was his meeting with a beautiful but profligate woman named Barbara Palmer . She was the ...
... nature . Among his early intrigues , there was one which had a very serious effect upon his after life and that of his country and court - this was his meeting with a beautiful but profligate woman named Barbara Palmer . She was the ...
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... nature . She always remained a devout and virtuous woman . Pepys , delightful old gossip , notwithstanding his Puritan upbringing , seems to have held Lady Castle- maine in great admiration at a respectful distance . On one occasion he ...
... nature . She always remained a devout and virtuous woman . Pepys , delightful old gossip , notwithstanding his Puritan upbringing , seems to have held Lady Castle- maine in great admiration at a respectful distance . On one occasion he ...
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... nature was as faultless as her body was fair . She had great dignity and reserve , said little but that to the purpose , and at the same time was full of humour and ready wit . " It is recorded that when young she carried her love UNDER ...
... nature was as faultless as her body was fair . She had great dignity and reserve , said little but that to the purpose , and at the same time was full of humour and ready wit . " It is recorded that when young she carried her love UNDER ...
Strana 38
... natural curls , slightly friezed at the sides . This simple style of coiffure was peculiar to England at this particular period , French ladies pre- ferring the Fontange . It is said that an adventure was the origin of this head - dress ...
... natural curls , slightly friezed at the sides . This simple style of coiffure was peculiar to England at this particular period , French ladies pre- ferring the Fontange . It is said that an adventure was the origin of this head - dress ...
Strana 39
... natural impetuosity and passion , said unbecoming things which possiby she regretted afterwards . She declared that if her mother remained at St. James's , " where she was sheltering from debt , she ( Sarah ) would run away . " In the ...
... natural impetuosity and passion , said unbecoming things which possiby she regretted afterwards . She declared that if her mother remained at St. James's , " where she was sheltering from debt , she ( Sarah ) would run away . " In the ...
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