Memoirs of the Courts of Berlin, Dresden, Warsaw, and Vienna, in the Years 1777, 1778, and 1779, Volume 1T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1806 - Europe |
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Page 286 - My resolution is taken, and no inducement can make me put any thing within my lips.
Page 285 - ... or entrance. Schrepfer then acquainted them, that the act which he was about to perform would demand all their firmness ; and advised them to fortify their nerves by partaking of a bowl of punch, which was placed upon the table. Several of them (indeed, as I believe, all except one or two, thinking the exhortatation judicious) very readily followed it ; but the gentleman from whom I received these particulars, declined to profit by the advice. " I am come here," said he to Schrepfer, " to be...
Page 267 - Prussian monarchy,' wrote Wraxall, 'reminds me of a vast prison, in the centre of which appears the great keeper occupied in the care of his captives.
Page 293 - It was in summer, before the sun rose, between three and four o'clock in the morning. When they came to a certain part of the grove, he desired them to remain there a little, while he went on one side, to make the requisite invocations. After waiting a few minutes, they heard the report of a pistol.
Page 72 - As no man, however, dared to lay hands upon the Queen, she stepped over the muskets, which were crossed, and ran, half wild, along the corridor to the King's apartment. She even forced her way into it by violence; but her enemies, aware that she might try to gain admittance, and...
Page 72 - ... and justly apprehensive of her influence over him, had taken the precaution of removing him, betimes, to another part of the palace. " Exhausted by the agitation of her mind, and by such exertions of body, the Queen attempted no further resistance. She returned to her own chamber, where she was aided to dress herself,* and informed that she must instantly quit Copenhagen. Rantzau had the insolence to say to her, alluding to his...
Page 60 - On the afternoon of the 16th of January, only a few hours before the ball was to begin, he wrote to the minister, desiring to see him at his own apartments upon business of the utmost importance. Struensee intended to have gone thither, but being detained by a variety of affairs till it grew late, he went straight to the ball, and thereby lost the fairest opportunity of extricating himself from destruction. " Rantzau, thus disappointed in his design of betraying his associates, was not the less resolved...
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Page 72 - Eantzau had the insolence to say to her, alluding to his gouty feet, ' Vous voyez, Madame, que mes pieds me manquent; mais mes bras sont libres, et j'en offrirai un a votre Majeste, pour 1'aider...
Page 286 - A very considerable time elapsed before they obeyed; during which interval, he laboured apparently under great agitation of body and mind, being covered with a violent sweat, and almost in convulsions, like the Pythoness of antiquity.