Christina of Denmark: Duchess of Milan and Lorraine, 1522-1590

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E.P. Dutton, 1913 - 562 páginas
 

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Página iii - T~*\IEU, qu'il la fait bon regarder, ^•^ La gracieuse, bonne et belle ! Pour les grans biens qui sont en elle, Chascun est prest de la louer. Qui se pourroit d'elle lasser ! Tousjours sa beaulté renouvelle. Dieu, qu'il la fait bon regarder...
Página 145 - She is not so pure white as was the late queen . . . but she hath a singular good acquaintance and when she chanceth to smile there appeareth two pits in her cheeks and one in her chin, the which becometh her right...
Página 272 - Is it so?" reflecting on the alliance which had placed the Stewart family on the throne; "then God's will be done. It came with a lass, and it will go with a lass.
Página 165 - ... certain end and conclusion; not only for that his Grace, prudendy considering how that marriage is a bargain of such nature as must endure for the whole life of man, and a thing whereof the pleasure and quiet, or the displeasure and torment of the man's mind doth much depend, thinketh it to be much necessary both for himself and the party with whom it shall please God to join him in marriage, that the one might see the other before the time they should be so affianced, as they might not without...
Página 145 - Milan ... is of the age of 16 years, very high of stature for that age ... a goodly personage of body, and competent of beauty, of favour excellent, soft of speech, and very gentle in countenance . . . She resembleth much one Mistress Shelton, that sometime waited in the court upon Queen Anne.
Página 338 - The Emperor drank the best that ever I saw ; he had his head in the glass five times as long as any of us, and never drank less than a good quart at once of Rhenish wine.
Página 230 - If it were not that she is come so far into England, and for fear of making a ruffle in the world, and driving her brother into the Emperor and French king's hands, now being together, I would never have her. But now it is too far gone ; wherefore I am sorry.'* As a last * Compare Cromwell's Letter to the King from the Tower, SUBNET'S Collectanea, p.
Página 51 - Item, under the said picture another picture, wherein two "men children and one woman child, playing with some oranges in their hands, by a green table ; little halffigures upon a board, in a wooden frame.
Página 153 - Haunce having but three hours'space hath showed himself to be master of that science (the making of physiognomies) for it is very perfect, the other is but slobbered in comparison to it, as by the sight of both your lordship shall well apperceive.
Página 107 - THE OUTLOOK to challenge attention is that when, as a very youthful widow, hers was a peculiarly pathetic figure. Mrs. Ady says: From the moment of the Duke's death her good sense and discretion won golden opinions from the gray-headed statesmen around her. The Senators and Ambassadors were deeply moved at the sight of this Princess, whose heavy mourning and widow's weeds contrasted strangely with her extreme youth. The dignity and grace of her bearing charmed them still more, and all the Milanese...

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