The cardinal, by the author of 'The duchess'. |
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Seite 53 - She looked down to blush, and she looked up to sigh, With a smile on her lip, and a tear in her eye.
Seite 24 - ... captive, a beggar, sent into exile from the country she had ruled, with almost as rude a treatment as would have been shown towards its meanest felon. Alberoni had whispered Elizabeth Farnese into the kingdom, and whispered the Orsini out of it. " He had won the ear of the Camerara Mayor by exaggerating the timidity and the absence of ambition in the princess. He had won the ear of the princess by representing in colours equally extravagant, the overbearing temper and the despotic will of the...
Seite 24 - ... Elizabeth Farnese became Queen of Spain ; Alberoni became master of the situation ; and poor Princess Orsini was sent on her travels — going the way by which she should not return, and invoking vengeance on the astute adventurer who had made her his tool. For twelve years, as we read in " The Cardinal," she had been the real sovereign of Spain, — her glance obeyed, — her words law : and now a captive, a beggar, sent into exile from the country she had ruled, with almost as rude a treatment...