Memoirs of the Late Princess Charlotte Augusta, of Wales and Saxe Cobourg: In which are Introduced Some Interesting Anecdotes Never Before Published ...Robert Desilver, 110, Walnut-street. Thomas Town, printer., 1818 - 72 pages |
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Page 29 - O vale of bliss ! O softly swelling hills ! On which the Power of Cultivation lies, And joys to see the wonders of his toil.
Page 50 - Prebendaries, attended by the choir, received the bod; : and the procession (having previously been formed, and being flanked by the military, every fourth man bearing a flambeau) moved down the south aisle, and up the nave, into the choir, in the following order : — Poor Knights of Windsor.
Page 71 - Their effect has been to correct that sanguineness of disposition which was too commonly a source of severe disappointment, and which uniformly led me to view things through a prejudiced medium .a sort of premature experience has given me that insight, into human life and human character, which, in ordinary cases and circumstances is the result of the study and observation of years. Your virtues, my dearest mother, and your...
Page 55 - ... to preserve calmness and fortitude, yet he, every now and then, burst into a flood of tears. He walked along with unsteady steps, and took the seat provided for him at the head of the coffin, between the Dukes of York and Clarence. During the whole time of the funeral service he preserved one fixed, but downcast, look towards the coffin of his beloved wife : he never once raised his eyes to the congregation : he was totally absorbed in his grief.
Page 72 - ... of my situation at this moment. Should it be the pleasure of Providence that I survive the hour of approaching danger, I may at some future period be endued with power to restore you to that situation...
Page 51 - Arms. Privy Purse and Private Secretary to the Prince Regent. Lords of the Prince Regent's Bedchamber. Norroy King of Arms. The Bishop of Exeter. The Bishop of Salisbury. The Bishop of London. The Ministers of Hanover and Saxony, Count Munster and Baron de Just. The Deputy Earl Marshal. His Majesty's Ministers. The Archbishop of Canterbury. Choir of Windsor.
Page 72 - ... you with that sublime feeling of pious resignation, which would teach you to bow submissive to the chastening stroke of our common Father and to console your afflicted heart with the anticipation of our re-union in a world where felicity is unimpaired, and to which malice is inadmissable.
Page 70 - I have no friend, no relation near me, whose advice may guide, or whose admonitions may check my conduct. Surrounded by strangers, with a single exception, my heart feels itself alone; and should the protection of Heaven for a moment leave me, and I fall, the presence of a mother would assuredly impart a serenity and resignation to my mind which would smooth the pillow for my dying head, and prevent my distracted soul from erring in the hour of her severest trial. Secluded from the [giddy world,...
Page 69 - ... feelings of the heart. While, as a wife, I am alive to all those anxious susceptibilities which accompany my peculiar situation, I am compelled by circumstances to extend my views to contemplations widely different in their kind as in their latitude ; — contemplations involving the nearest and most durable interests of a people to whom I owe a debt scarcely to be liquidated, — gratitude for unbounded affection. To relieve, in some degree, this weight of obligation, and to justify the universal...
Page 59 - Thus it hath pleased Almighty God to take out of this transitory life, unto his divine mercy, the late most high, most mighty, and most excellent monarch William the Fourth, by the grace of God, of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, and Sovereign of the Most Noble Order of the Garter ; King of Hanover, and Duke of Brunswick and Lunenburgh.