 When this extraordinary man, with the figure and genius of Alcibiades, could equally charm the presbyterian Fairfax, and the dissolute Charles ; when he alike ridiculed that witty king, and his solemn chancellor ; when he plotted the ruin of his country...  Memoirs of the Court of Charles the Second - Página 361de Anthony Hamilton (Count), Charles II (King of England), Thomas Blount - 1846 - 546 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | J. A. Erskine Stuart - 1892 - 236 páginas
...lord of useless thousands ends." — Moral Essays, Epistle III Horace Walpola says of Buckingham: — "When this extraordinary man, with the figure and...ridiculed that witty king and his solemn chancellor (Clarendon) ; when he plotted the ruin of his country with a cabal of bad ministers ; or, equally unprincipled,... | |
 | Joseph Tilley (of Derby, Eng.) - 1893 - 352 páginas
...KNIVETON, AND MAPPLETON. 241 The character of Buckingham has been very well expressed by Walpole. " When this extraordinary man with the figure and genius...and the dissolute Charles ; when he alike ridiculed the witty King and his solemn Chancellor ; when he plotted the ruin of his country by a Cabal of bad... | |
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