File:The history of England, from the accession of James the Second (1914) (14596423289).jpg

Identifier: historyofenglandm05macauoft (find matches)
Title: The history of England, from the accession of James the Second
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron, 1800-1859 Firth, C. H. (Charles Harding), 1857-1936
Subjects: Great Britain -- History James II, 1685-1688 Great Britain -- History William and Mary, 1689-1702
Publisher: London : Macmillan
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

View Book Page: Book Viewer
About This Book: Catalog Entry
View All Images: All Images From Book
Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book.

Text Appearing Before Image:
s an oppressor, Anne, who was as culpable asher small faculties enabled her to be, assumed the interesting characterof a meek, resigned, sufferer. In those private letters, indeed, to whichthe name of Morley was subscribed, the Princess expressed the senti-ments of a fury in the style of a fishwoman, railed savagely at the wholeDutch nation, and called her brother in law sometimes the abortion,sometimes the monster, sometimes Caliban.- But the nation heard 1 The Duchess of Marlboroughs Vindication ; Dartmouths Note on Burnet, ii. 92.; Verses ofthe Night BeUman of Piccadilly and my Lord Nottinghams Order thereupon, 1691. There is abitter lampoon on Lady Marlborough of the same date, entitled the Universal Health, a trueUnion to the Queen and Princess. ^It must not be supposed that Anne was a reader of Shakspeare She had, no doubt, oftenseen the Enchanted Island. That miserable rifacimento of the Tempest was then a favourite withthe town, on account of the machinery and the decorations.
Text Appearing After Image:
^ ■•^ N N N ^^ ^, ^w y ^j 1 c5 < 3-o ^ 3 33 2I30 HISTORY Ol- l-NGLAND chap, xvm ntilhiiii; of licr lanL;uai;c ami saw iiotliiiiL; of her clcixnimcnl but whatwas decorous and submissi\c. 1 he liuth sccins to have been that therancorous and coarseniinded Countess gave the tone to her IHi;hncsssconfidential correspondence, while the i^raceful, serene, and politic ICarlwas suffered to j^rescribe the course which was to be taken before thepublic eye. Uuriny; a short time the Oueen was generally blamed.liut the charm of her temper ami manners was irresistible ; and in afew months she regained the popularity which she had lost. It was a most fortmiate circumstance for Marlborough that, just attlie \ery time when all London was talking about his disgrace, and tryingFullers to guess at the cause of the Kings sudden anger against one P° who had always seemed to be a favourite, an accusation of treason was brought by William Fuller agai

Note About Images