The Childhood of the Prince Consort. [With Plates, Including Portraits.]W. Swan. Sonnenschein & Company, 1884 - 150 páginas |
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The Childhood of the Prince Consort. [With Plates, Including Portraits.] F. L. Clarke Vista completa - 1884 |
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afterwards amused Baron Stockmar beautiful beloved Bonn breakfast brother Buckingham Palace carriage castle CHAPTER cheered child church Coblenz Coburg cousins crowds dear papa delighted dined dinner dressed drove Duchess of Kent Duke Duke of Coburg Duke of Gotha early Eisenach England English Eôs Ernest and Albert father favourite feeling felt festival Festung fire Florschütz flowers fond French friends Garter gave Genzler German give grandmamma happy heart Highlanders honour husband journey Ketschendorf kind King knew Knight letter little boy little Princess lived London looked Lord Torrington loved Luther married morning mother never o'clock passed played pleasant pleasure poor present pretty Prince Albert Prince Consort Prince Ernest Princess Prussia Queen's Journal Reinhardsbrunn Rosenau says sight soon stag thought took town travellers trees tutor uncle Leopold Verviers Vicky Victoria visitors whole Windsor WINDSOR CASTLE wish writes young prince
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Página 31 - I then said to the Duchess of Kent, that now, for the first time, your Majesty ought to know your place in the succession. Her Royal Highness agreed with me, and I put the genealogical table into the historical book. When Mr. Davys (the Queen's instructor, afterwards Bishop of Peterborough) was gone, the Princess Victoria opened the book again, as usual, and seeing the additional paper, said, 'I never saw that before.
Página 9 - The good wishes," said the preacher, " with which we welcome this infant as a Christian, as one destined to be great on earth, and as a future heir to everlasting life, are the more earnest, when we consider the high position in life in which he may one day be placed, and the sphere of action to which the will of God may call him...
Página 87 - We had hardly proceeded a hundred yards from the palace, when I noticed, on the footpath on my side, a little mean-looking man holding something towards us ; and before I could distinguish what it was, a shot was fired, which almost stunned us both, it was so loud, and fired barely six paces from us. Victoria had just turned to the left to look at a horse, and could not therefore understand why her ears were ringing, as from its being so very near she could hardly distinguish that it proceeded from...
Página 67 - I have the prospect of very great happiness before me. I love him more than I can say, and shall do everything in my power to render this sacrifice (for such, in my opinion, it is) as small as I can.
Página 64 - I am now my own master, as I hope always to be, and under all circumstances.* In consequence of this event we have had great fe~tes here, in which the whole country has most heartily taken part. "On the 13th (July) I shall accompany Ernest to Dresden, and stay with him for about fourteen days. Then must I go to a place that I hate mortally, that charming Carlsbad, where papa is taking the waters, and 1 much wishes me to be with him.
Página 150 - Peace, peace ! he is not dead, he doth not sleep ! He hath awakened from the dream of life. Tis we who, lost in stormy visions, keep With phantoms an unprofitable strife, And in mad trance strike with our spirit's knife Invulnerable nothings. We decay Like corpses in a charnel ; fear and grief Convulse us and consume us day by day, And cold hopes swarm like worms within our living clay.
Página 50 - DEAR PAPA, — We should be so glad to " accept your invitation to go to Coburg for a " few days, and to spend Christmas there. But " if we are to profit by our stay here, I am " afraid we must deny ourselves that pleasure. " Such an expedition would require five or six " weeks, and our course of study would be quite " disturbed by such an interruption. We told " dear uncle the purport of your letter, and he " said he would write to you on the subject.
Página 142 - BUT yesterday a naked sod The dandies sneered from Rotten Row, And cantered o'er it to and fro : And see 'tis done ! As though 'twere by a wizard's rod A blazing arch of lucid glass Leaps like a fountain from the grass To meet the sun...
Página 66 - good and kind to me that I am often at a loss " to believe that such affection (Herzliehkeif)
Página 14 - I remained in bed, and only got up at three o'clock in the afternoon. I did a little drawing, then I built a castle and arranged my arms ; after that I did my lessons, and made a little picture and painted it. Then I played with Noah's Ark, then we dined, and I went to bed and prayed.