 | John Hervey Baron Hervey - 1848 - 448 Seiten
...continually to St. James's, showing the utmost impatience .for their return, and saying with equal prudenco and humanity to the people who were with him, " Well,...told it to Lord Hervey himself. Poor Mr. Hamilton only,* when he was told such reports were spread, doubted of the truth of them, and said the Prince... | |
 | 1849 - 820 Seiten
...dutiful son retaliated it honestly. When the queen lay on her deathbed " the prince used to sit up in his house in Pall Mall almost the whole night and...longer;' and talked all day long in the same strain to every body about him." Beyond the precincts of the royal family, with whom we have been dealing, and... | |
 | Eliot Warburton - 1851 - 582 Seiten
...and continually sent persons to enquire how she was going on, welcoming every fresh messenger with " Well, sure we shall soon have good news; she cannot hold out much longer." The Vice-Chamberlain had this information from the Duke of Marlborough and Henry Fox, who were deeply... | |
 | Eliot Warburton - 1851 - 574 Seiten
...and continually sent persons to enquire how she was going on, welcoming every fresh messenger with " Well, sure we shall soon have good news; she cannot hold out much longer." The Vice-Chamberlain had this information from the Duke of Marlborough and Henry Fox, who were deeply... | |
 | Katherine Thomson - 1860 - 376 Seiten
...up all night in his house in Pall Mall, and saying, when any messenger came in from St. James's, ' Well, sure, we shall soon have good news, she cannot hold out much longer.' And the princesses were writing letters to prevent the Princess Royal from coming to England, where she... | |
 | Mrs. A. T. Thomson, Philip Wharton - 1867 - 574 Seiten
...up all night in his house in Pall Mall, and saying, when any messenger came in from St. James's, ' Well, sure, we shall soon have good news, she cannot hold out much longer.' And the princesses were writing letters to prevent the Princess Royal from coming to England, where she... | |
 | Margaret Oliphant Oliphant - 1869 - 450 Seiten
...had sold his birthright, was not there. He was at his own house in town, flattering himself that " we shall soon have good news ; she cannot hold out much longer" Nor was Anne, the Princess Royal, at her mother's bedside. But she had her boy, William — he whom... | |
 | 1877 - 802 Seiten
...to inquire how she was progressing; and his eager question to every messenger on his return was, " Well, sure, we shall soon have good news; she cannot hold out much longer." And so she died, as Chesterfield said, " Unforgiving and unforgiven." Apologists have endeavoured to prove... | |
 | Joseph Fitzgerald Molloy - 1882 - 320 Seiten
...friends the Duke of Marlborough and Hemy Fox afterwards told the vice-chamberlain) with the speech : ' Well, sure we shall soon have good news ; she cannot hold out much longer.' When she was dead the breach between him and his father widened, if possible, so much so that the king... | |
 | Joseph Fitzgerald Molloy - 1882 - 324 Seiten
...friends the Duke of Marlborough and Henry Fox afterwards told the vice-chamberlain) with the speech : ' Well, sure we shall soon have good news ; she cannot hold out much longer.' When she was dead the breach between him and his father widened, if possible, so much so that the king... | |
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No situation of distress can soften him enough to make him forget to hate one moment." This advice Lord Hervey conveyed to the King, who took it with as much reluctance as his Lordship brought it ; though not with so good an excuse to himself for sacrificing... 
