Side lights on English history; . ould finery was a mixture of magnificence be contrived ; the present King differ- and meanness not unlike the eclat of ing so much from the last, that all the royalty in many other particulars when pageantry and splendour, badges and it comes to be nicely examined and trappings of royalty, were as pleasing traced to what money hires or flattery to the son as they were irksome to the lends. father. The dress of the Qiieen on Her (the Qiieens) predominant pas- this occasion was as fine as the accumu- sion was pride, and the darling pleas- lated riches of the Cit
Side lights on English history; . ould finery was a mixture of magnificence be contrived ; the present King differ- and meanness not unlike the eclat of ing so much from the last, that all the royalty in many other particulars when pageantry and splendour, badges and it comes to be nicely examined and trappings of royalty, were as pleasing traced to what money hires or flattery to the son as they were irksome to the lends. father. The dress of the Qiieen on Her (the Qiieens) predominant pas- this occasion was as fine as the accumu- sion was pride, and the darling pleas- lated riches of the City and suburbs ure of her soul was power; but she could make it; for besides her own jew- was forced to gratify the one and gain els (which were a great number and the other, as some people do health, very valuable) she had on her nead and by a strict and painful rigiiue^ which onhcr shoulders all the pearls she could few besides herself could have had borrow of the ladies of ([uality at one patience to support, or resolution to. (j K iJ^ ... .,- ... ... I,.n/„?/./- /,?..„/„..,^ ^: >>.:...:, ,/./? King George II. and Queen Caroline 245 adhere to. She was at least seven oreight hours tetc-a-tete with the Kingevery day, during which time she wasgenerally saying what she did not think,assenting to what she did not believe,and praising what she did not approve ;for they were seldom of the same opin-ion, and he too fond of his own for herever at first to dare to controvert , , She used to give him her opinionas jugglers do a card, by changing itimperceptibly, and making him believehe held the same with that he firstpitched upon. But that which madethese tete-a-tetcs seem heaviest wasthat he neither liked reading nor beingread to (unless it was to sleep) : shewas forced, like a spider, to spin outof her own bowels all the conversationwith which the fly was taken. How-ever, to all this she submitted for thesake of powder, and for the reputationof having it. . H
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