 At a quarter before eleven she was delivered of a little rat of a girl, about the bigness of a good large toothpick case.' The anger of the King and Queen, when the unworthy conduct of their son was brought before them, was deep in the extreme. They declared...  Temple Bar - Pagina 185editat de - 1878Vizualizare completă - Despre această carte
 | John Hervey Baron Hervey - 1848 - 486 pagini
...neighbourhood : and no sheets being to be come at, her Royal Highness was put to bed between two table-cloths.J At a quarter before eleven she was delivered of a...rat of a girl,§ about the bigness of a good large toothpick-case ; none of the Lords of the Council being present but my Lord President Wilming* Ante.... | |
 | John Hervey Baron Hervey - 1848 - 448 pagini
...neighbourhood: and no sheets being to be come at, her Royal Highness was put to bed between two table-cloths.J At a quarter before eleven she was delivered of a...rat of a girl,§ about the bigness of a good large toothpick-case; none of the Lords of the Council being present but my Lord President Wilming• Ante.... | |
 | John Hervey Baron Hervey - 1848 - 616 pagini
...neighbourhood ; and no sheets being to be come at, her Royal Highness was put to bed between two tablecloths.5 At a quarter before eleven she was delivered of a little rat of a girl,6 about the bigness of a good s Ante, p. 23. 4 Several of the details alluded to in the last page... | |
 | Barbara Clay Finch - 1883 - 336 pagini
...hastily summoned ; and shortly before eleven was born what Lord Hervey unflatteringly designates as " a little rat of a girl, about the bigness of a good large toothpick-case." " Perhaps," says Dr. Doran, " it was the confusion which reigned before and at her... | |
 | Alexander Charles Ewald - 1885 - 396 pagini
...would cause her the most exquisite agony. Her husband only replied, ' Courage! courage ! ah, quette sotti.se ! ' and told her, ' with the encouragement...that Fritz should feel their heaviest displeasure. ' The King has commanded me to acquaint your Royal Highness,' wrote Lord Essex (Aug. 3, 1737), ' that... | |
 | Alexander Charles Ewald - 1885 - 424 pagini
...her the most exquisite agony. Her husband only replied, ' Courage/ courage ! ah, quctte sottiw ! ' and told her, ' with the encouragement of a tooth-drawer,...that Fritz should feel their heaviest displeasure. ' The King has commanded me to acquaint your Royal Highness,' wrote Lord Essex (Aug. 3, 1737), ' that... | |
 | Alexander Charles Ewald - 1885 - 392 pagini
...her the most exquisite agony. Her husband only replied, ' Courage! courage ! ah, quelle sottixe ! ' and told her, ' with the encouragement of a tooth-drawer,...that Fritz should feel their heaviest displeasure. ' The King has commanded me to acquaint your Royal Highness,' wrote Lord Essex (Aug. 3, 1737), ' that... | |
 | Ernest Philip Alphonse Law - 1891 - 650 pagini
...neighbourhood ; and no sheets being to be come at, her Royal Highness was put to bed between two table-cloths. At a quarter before eleven she was delivered of a...about the bigness of a good large toothpick case." The " little rat " grew up to be a fine woman, and was afterwards the Duchess of Brunswick. There are two... | |
 | Edwin Beresford Chancellor - 1907 - 582 pagini
...between her parents and George II., and the extraordinary circumstances attending the birth of this " little rat of a girl, about the bigness of a good large toothpick case," as Lord Hervey calls her, will be found fully detailed in that nobleman's memoirs.8 When she returned... | |
 | Marjory Hollings - 1911 - 466 pagini
...be come at, Her Royal Highness was put to bed between two table cloths." Less than an hour later, " At a quarter before eleven she was delivered of a...about the bigness of a good large toothpick case." a The queen did not hear of the departure of the prince and princess at once, but when the news was... | |
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