She looked very well, and though so small in stature, and without much pretensions to beauty, the gracefulness of her manner and the good expression of her countenance give her on the whole a very agreeable appearance, and with her youth inspire an excessive... Queen Victoria 1819-1901 - Page 74by Richard Rivington Holmes - 1901 - 330 pagesFull view - About this book
| Septimus Sears - 1854 - 788 pages
...the council ; " she acted with good taste, good feeling, and good sense. She presided at the council with as much ease as if she had been doing nothing else all her life." It is recorded that, on the morning of this day, she went to her mother, and said with deep feeling,... | |
| Christianity - 1875 - 622 pages
...public life, the inauguration of a new сгa, very different from that described in these pages : — ' She looked very well, and though so small in stature...pretension to beauty, the gracefulness of her manner, and tho good expression of her countenance, give her on the whole a very agreeable appearance, and with... | |
| Justin McCarthy - Great Britain - 1881 - 460 pages
...to see her perform her part better. ' At twelve,' says Mr. Greville, ' she held a Council, at which she presided with as much ease as if she had been...the Council papers, she was not put out by it. She K37. THE YOUNG QUEEN. 11 looked very well ; and though so small In stature, and without much pretension... | |
| Robert Chambers - American literature - 1881 - 856 pages
...hurrah till Lord Lansdowne gave them the signal from the window. At twelve, she held a council, at which she presided with as much ease as if she had been...nothing else all her life ; and though Lord Lansdowne aud my colleague hod contrived between them to make some coiifu-ion with the council papers, »he was... | |
| James Taylor - 1882 - 276 pages
...he could not have desired to see her perform her part better. At twelve she held a Council, at which she presided with as much ease as if she had been doing nothing else all her hfe; and though Lord Lansdowne and his colleague had contrived between them to make some confusion... | |
| William Henry Davenport Adams - Great Britain - 1884 - 242 pages
...and, at the same time, her firmness.' An hour later she held a Council of her Ministers, ' at which she presided with as much ease as if she had been doing nothing else all her life. She looked very well, and though so small in stature, and without much pretension to beauty, the gracefulness... | |
| Ainsworth Rand Spofford, Charles Gibbon - Literature - 1893 - 484 pages
...hurrah till Lord Lansdowne gave them the signal from the window. At twelve she held a council, at which she presided with as much ease as if she had been...well, and though so small in stature, and without much pretensions to beauty, the gracefulness of her manner and the good expression of her countenance give... | |
| Dame Millicent Garrett Fawcett - Great Britain - 1895 - 296 pages
...went and fetched her in State with a great escort. ... At twelve o'clock she held a Council, at which she presided with as much ease as if she had been doing nothing else all her life ; and though Lord Lansdowu and my colleague had contrived between them to make some confusion with the Council papers,... | |
| Charles Dudley Warner - Literature - 1897 - 468 pages
...to see her perform her part better. "At twelve," says Mr. Greville, " she held a Council, at which she presided with as much ease as if she had been...well ; and though so small in stature, and without rm1ch pretension to beauty, the gracefulness of her manner and the good expression of her countenance... | |
| Mrs. Hugh Fraser - Diplomats' spouses - 1899 - 824 pages
...at once. All through the long dinner, the first she had ever attended, she was as gay and composed as if she had been doing nothing else all her life, and some of us remembered her wonderful fortitude and courage after the death of her father last year.... | |
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