| Maria Edgeworth - 1893 - 250 páginas
...Newcastle : — " Her name was Margaret Lucas, youngest sister to the Lord Lucas of Colchester ; — a noble family, for all the brothers were valiant and all the sisters virtuous." I look to the temper of the times in forming rules for conduct. Of late years we... | |
| Joseph Knight - 1894 - 368 páginas
...Newcastle, a member of the family of Lucas, Earl of Colchester, called on a monument in Westminster Abbey " a noble family, for all the brothers were valiant, and all the sisters virtuous." Of those brothers and sisters her Grace says, in words by which the critic of the... | |
| James Samuel Stone - 1894 - 238 páginas
...can be finer : ' ' Her name was Margaret Lucas, youngest daughter of Lord Lucas, Earl of Colchester, a noble family, for all the brothers were valiant, and all the sisters virtuous. " The next Duke of Newcastle, Henry, also lived much at Bolsover; and when he died... | |
| Augustus John Cuthbert Hare - 1894 - 132 páginas
...the cause of Charles I., and his Duchess, Margaret Lucas (1674), who, as her epitaph tells, came of ' a noble family, for all the brothers were valiant, and all the sisters virtuous.' This Duchess, commemorated in 'Peveril of the Peak,' was a most voluminous writer,... | |
| Washington Irving - 1848 - 482 páginas
...whom he had no issue. Her name was Margaret Lucas, youngest sister to the Lord Lucas of Colchester, a noble family ; for all the brothers were valiant, and all the sisters virtuous. This Duchess was a wise, witty, and learned lady, which her many Bookes do well testify... | |
| George Gregory Smith - 1897 - 356 páginas
...Dutchess of Newcastle,' Her Name was Margaret Lucas, youngest Sister to the Lord Lucas of Colchester/ a noble Family, for all the Brothers were valiant, and all the Sisters virtuous! above all things* In Books of Chivalry, where the Point of Honour is strained to... | |
| John Clark Ridpath - 1903 - 548 páginas
...Newcastle and his Duchess. Her name was Margaret Lucas, younger sister to the Lord Lucas, of Colchester ; a noble family, for all the brothers were valiant and all the sisters virtuous. In one of her latest productions the Duchess says, with frank good-humor: REASONS... | |
| John Clark Ridpath - 1898 - 564 páginas
...Newcastle and his Duchess. Her name was Margaret Lucas, younger sister to the Lord Lucas, of Colchester ; a noble family, for all the brothers were valiant and all the sisters virtuous. In one of her latest productions the Duchess says, with frank good-humor: REASONS... | |
| Georgina E. Troutbeck - 1900 - 336 páginas
...his tomb, and wrote his wife's epitaph, describing her as " Sister of Lord Lucas of Colchester — a noble family, for all the brothers were valiant, and all the sisters virtuous." The Duchess was a most voluminous writer, and Walpole calls her " a fertile pedant,... | |
| Charles Hiatt - 1902 - 166 páginas
...by his devotion to the cause of Charles I. The duchess, who is described in the epitaph as coming of "a Noble family, for all the brothers were valiant, and all the sisters virtuous," was a somewhat voluminous writer. MAJOR-GENERAL SIR JOHN MALCOLM (b. 1769; d. 1833),... | |
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