 | Jonathan Swift - 1801 - Страниц: 460
...general prompted her to be) until his restless impatient behaviour had turned her against him. The queen had not a stock of amity to serve above one object at a time ; and, farther than a bare * ' Was the more offensive to her majesty, whose other servants,' &c. This... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1801 - Страниц: 530
...general prompted her to be) until his restless impatient behaviour had turned her against him. The queen had not a stock of amity to serve above one object at a time ; and, farther than a bare * ' Was the mar? offensive to her majesty, whose other servants,' &c. This... | |
 | 1870 - Страниц: 624
...in his first portrait of her, was merely a half-witted person in nominal possession of a throne. ' Can it ' be necessary to waste many words upon the mind of a woman ' who could give as a reason for dismissing a cabinet minister, ' that he had appeared before her in a tie-wig instead of a full'... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1814 - Страниц: 468
...as his nature would permit him, was, upon all occasions, much too arbitrary and obtruding. The queen had not a stock of amity to serve above one object at a time; and, farther than a bare good or ill opinion, which she soon contracted and changed, and very often... | |
 | Earl Philip Henry Stanhope Stanhope - 1836 - Страниц: 672
...weak woman, full of prejudices, fond of flattery, always governed blindly by some female favourite, and, as Swift bitterly observes, " had not a stock...* Can it be necessary to waste many words upon the 1713. mind of a woman who could give as a reason — a lady's reason!—for dismissing a cabinet minister,... | |
 | Earl Philip Henry Stanhope Stanhope - 1836 - Страниц: 660
...Lord Strafford, Aug. 7. 1713, vol. ii. p. *66. -f. Comment, vol. iv. p. *39. ed. by Coleridge, 1825. " of amity to serve above one object at a time." * Can it be necessary to waste many words upon the 1713. mind of a woman who could give as a reason — a lady's reason! — for dismissing a cabinet... | |
 | 1837 - Страниц: 568
...fond of tlattery — always blindly guided by some female favourite, and, as Swift bitterly exclaims, "had not a stock of amity to serve above one object...Cabinet Minister, that he had appeared before her in a tie wig instead of a fall bottom ? Is it not evident, that in such a case, we must study the advisers... | |
 | Earl Philip Henry Stanhope Stanhope - 1839 - Страниц: 670
...weak woman, full of prejudices, fond of flattery, always governed blindly by some female favourite, and, as Swift bitterly observes, " had not a stock " of amity to serve above one object at a time."t Can it be necessary to waste many words upon the mind of a woman who could give as a reason... | |
 | Earl Philip Henry Stanhope Stanhope - 1841 - Страниц: 464
...w6ak woman, full of prejudices, fond of flattery, always governed blindly by some female favourite, and, as Swift bitterly observes, "had not a stock of amity to serve above one " object at a time (4)." Can it be necessary to waste many words upon the mind of a woman who could give as a reason —... | |
 | Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (Great Britain) - 1843 - Страниц: 462
...ending in indifference or aversion." (Private Correspoudencc, ii. 121.) And Swift says of her that she " had not a stock of amity to serve above one object at a time." (Memoirs relating to the Cltange in the Queen's Ministry, Works, iii. 175. Scott's edition.) Her conduct... | |
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Queen need not detain us long. She was a very weak woman, full of prejudices, fond of flattery, always governed blindly by some female favourite, and, as Swift bitterly observes, " had not a stock of amity to serve above one object at a "time... 
