 | Arthur Lawrence Merrill, Henry Davenport Northrop - 1901 - 250 pagini
...to be awed, but not daunted, and afterward the Duke of Wellington told me the same thing, and added that if she had been his own daughter he could not have desired to see her perform her part better." The young Queen, was the verdict of all, behaved with a decorum and propriety beyond her years, and... | |
 | Dame Millicent Garrett Fawcett - 1901 - 308 pagini
...be awed, but not daunted ; and afterwards the Duke of Wellington told me the same thing, and added that if she had been his own daughter he could not have desired to see her perform her part better. It was settled that she was to hold a Council at St. James's this day, and be proclaimed there at ten... | |
 | Mayo Williamson Hazeltine - 1902 - 482 pagini
...Duke of Wellington expressed his gratification in the blunt language of an old soldier by remarking that if she had been his own daughter he could not have expected her to have done better. So it was on the first day, so it was every day, so it was on the... | |
 | 1907 - 398 pagini
...instructive. We have, for instance, the old Duke on the Queen's reception of the news of her accession : " if she had been his own daughter he could not have desired to see her perform her part better " ; Macaulay, an official Whig, asserting in 1838 that the Radicals were reduced to " Grote and his... | |
 | 1905 - 470 pagini
...Duke of Wellington expressed his gratification in the blunt language of an old soldier by remarking that if she had been his own daughter he could not have expected her to have done better. So it was on the first day, so it was every day, so it was on the... | |
 | 1901 - 616 pagini
.... She appeared in fact, to be awed, not daunted ; and afterwards the Duke of Wellington told me ... that if she had been his own daughter he could not have desired to see her perform her part better." All through those first trying days, she showed a remarkable union of womanly sympathy, girlish simplicity,... | |
 | William Hunt, Reginald Lane Poole - 1907 - 566 pagini
...with her accession, bore herself with much dignity and natural simplicity. The Duke of Wellington said that " if she had been his own daughter he could not have desired to see her perform her part better".1 The nation was inclined to be favourably impressed, though there was no very pronounced sentiment... | |
 | Victoria (Queen of Great Britain) - 1912 - 538 pagini
...situation. She did not know then, although she knew later, that the Duke of Wellington said that had she been his own daughter he could not have desired to see her perform her part better. known from many sources, that the Queen showed in difficult circumstances not only good taste and good... | |
 | Victoria (Queen of Great Britain) - 1912 - 478 pagini
...situation. She did not know then, although she knew later, that the Duke of Wellington said that had she been his own daughter he could not have desired to see her perform her part better. These Journals only accentuate what is already 82 INTRODUCTION [WTHOD. known from many sources, that... | |
 | Victoria (Queen of Great Britain) - 1914 - 450 pagini
...situation. She did not know then, although she knew later, that the Duke of Wellington said that had she been his own daughter he could not have desired to see her perform her part better. These Journals only accentuate what is already known from many sources, that the Queen showed in difficult... | |
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She appeared, in fact, to be awed, but not daunted, and afterwards the Duke of Wellington told me the same thing, and added that if she had been his own daughter he could not have desired to see her perform her part better. 
