Extraordinary Women: Their Girlhood and Early LifeShort biographical sketches of famous women throughout the world, including Joan of Arc, Queen Elizabeth, and Margaret Fuller. |
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... hair , falling in thick tresses upon her shoulders , must have given to this young maiden , at that time in her seventeenth year , an imposing appearance ; and as she proceeded in state , attended by nobles and knights , with all the ...
... hair , falling in thick tresses upon her shoulders , must have given to this young maiden , at that time in her seventeenth year , an imposing appearance ; and as she proceeded in state , attended by nobles and knights , with all the ...
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... hair standing on end . " " After the fall of Tournelles - as the chief bastile or fort had been named - Suffolk abandoned the siege , and his troops sullenly withdrew to some distance from the city , where they halted , and offered ...
... hair standing on end . " " After the fall of Tournelles - as the chief bastile or fort had been named - Suffolk abandoned the siege , and his troops sullenly withdrew to some distance from the city , where they halted , and offered ...
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... hair , and a mild , expressive countenance , lit up at the mo- ment into more than usual animation by the newly - kindled zeal which shone in her gentle , suffused eyes ; and it was some moments before he rather confusedly replied ...
... hair , and a mild , expressive countenance , lit up at the mo- ment into more than usual animation by the newly - kindled zeal which shone in her gentle , suffused eyes ; and it was some moments before he rather confusedly replied ...
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... hair so dressed up and frizzed , " that she felt like a monkey , " had no charms for her , although Bannister , Mrs. Jordan , and Mrs. Deschamps were amongst the performers , and Hamlet and Blue Beard , " the grandest things , she ...
... hair so dressed up and frizzed , " that she felt like a monkey , " had no charms for her , although Bannister , Mrs. Jordan , and Mrs. Deschamps were amongst the performers , and Hamlet and Blue Beard , " the grandest things , she ...
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... hair lustrous and silken , her teeth unexceptionable , her figure elastic and sylph - like , and her low - pitched , agitating voice so finely toned and modulated that Bonaparte could find no words forcible enough to express the ...
... hair lustrous and silken , her teeth unexceptionable , her figure elastic and sylph - like , and her low - pitched , agitating voice so finely toned and modulated that Bonaparte could find no words forcible enough to express the ...
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Page 124 - I am with him. And when I am called from him, I fall on weeping, because whatsoever I do else but learning is full of grief, trouble, fear, and whole misliking unto me...
Page 123 - I wist all their sport in the park is but a shadow to that pleasure that I find in Plato. Alas ! good folk, they never felt what true pleasure meant.
Page 123 - Duchess, with all the household, gentlemen and gentlewomen, were hunting in the park. I found her in her chamber reading...
Page 124 - God made the world, or else I am so sharply taunted, so cruelly threatened, yea, presently, sometimes with pinches, nips, and bobs, and other ways, which I will not name for the honour I bear them, so without measure misordered, that I think myself in hell, till time come that I must go to Mr.
Page 123 - Her parents, the Duke and Duchess, with all the household, gentlemen and gentlewomen, were hunting in the park : I found her...
Page 267 - With unexpected legions bursts away, And sees defenceless realms receive his sway; Short sway! fair Austria spreads her mournful charms, The queen, the beauty, sets the world in arms...
Page 124 - and tell you a truth, which perchance you will marvel at. One of the greatest benefits that ever God gave me, is, that he sent me so sharp and severe parents, and so gentle a schoolmaster. For when I am in presence...
Page 130 - Good people, I am come hither to die, and by a law I am condemned to the same. The fact against the queen's highness was unlawful, and the consenting thereunto by me : but touching the procurement and desire thereof by me or on my behalf, I do wash my hands thereof in innocency before God, and the face of yon, good Christian people, this day: " and therewith she wrung her hands, wherein she had her book.
Page 102 - Lauzun marries, next Sunday, at the Louvre, with the king's permission, Mademoiselle — Mademoiselle de — Mademoiselle — guess the name ; he marries Mademoiselle — the great Mademoiselle — Mademoiselle, the daughter of the late Monsieur — Mademoiselle, granddaughter of Henry IV.
Page 123 - And one example, whether love or fear doth work more in a child for virtue and learning, I will gladly report; which may be heard with some pleasure and followed with more profit.