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The Accession Of Queen To The Throne Ayo...
Queen Mary , the wife of Willian the Third , you can trace a likeness to the melancholy countenance of James : Anne was the daughter of her mother ' s joviality , at least as far as
the indulgence of the senses was concerned , —round and fat , and inclined by enjoyment to be good-humoured and indulgent ; she had brown hair and a fresh complexion : in short , was a regular Hyde , with the
exception of the pride and irritability , and perhaps the acuteness of that family ; and only possessing enough of her father ' s stubbornness , to enable her to turn round against the excess of presumption , and rescue her from the last consequences of a
habit of acquiescence . Lady Stafford , the wild daughter of a wild father ( Rochester ) talked of " orgies" in her palace , — most likely an extravagant misrepresentation ; but whatever the orgies amounted to , they must have arisen from the weak
moments generated too often in the Queen ' s latter years by a habit , which it is unpleasant to speak of in connexion with a woman , and which care , and
temperament , and perhaps her very easiness of intercourse conspired to bring upon her . Drinking of some kind or other , is resorted to as a refuge from care in millions of more
instances than the world is aware of ; and perhaps , till things right themselves in society to more final purpose , the wonder is , that the habit is not still more extensive .
The Accession Of Queen To The Throne Ayo...
Of Anne ' s early years some very curious accounts have been left us by the wife of the great Duke of Marlboro ugh , —for a long time her imperious favourite , if two such words can
go properly together . The truth is , Anne ' s heaviness and luxuriousness of temperament made her glad of a dictatress , so long * as the jurisdiction only supplied it with what it wanted , helped out her slowness of
speech , and took upon itself a world of trouble and management . The Duchess reigned in this way so long , that she at length forgot she had a queen for her slave ; and , in spite of habit , good-nature , and fear ,
royalty turned round in sullen anger , and got rid of her by dint of a singular exercise of one of Anne ' s very defects , — paucity of words . The favourite had unfortunately intimated , in one of her angry letters , that she did not want an
answer to a remonstrance made by her ; and the Queen , seizing hold of this expression at their final interview , kept repeating it over and again to all which
the Duchess alleged — " You desired no answer , and you shall have none . " This doggedness , in James the Second ' s style , so
exasperated the once all-powerful favourite ( though it was in reality nothing but a desperate refuge from want of words ) that she ventured to threaten
her Majesty with the consequences of her 4 t inhumanity ;" and so they parted for ever . This is the whole real amount
Female Sovereigns Ofengland When Young. ...
Female Sovereigns ofEngland when young . 9
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 1, 1837, page 9, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/mrp_01071837/page/7/
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