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Memorials and Other Papers

By: Thomas de Quincey

...lasquez, who had in 1623 executed a portrait of Charles I. (then Prince of Wales), was amongst those who in the three or four following years minister... ...ssing the violated equi- librium to our feelings, we subscribed throughout Wales to extort six horses from the astonished innkeepers, most of whom dec... ...nce or distress. A century and a half ago such a Lady Carbery was in South Wales, at the “Golden Grove;” now such another Lady Carbery was in central ... ...a weekly allowance, which would have enabled me to live in any district of Wales, either North or South; for Wales, both North and South, is (or at an... ... the people that it was “sin- ful” to charge less than three shillings. In Wales, meantime, I suffered grievously from want of books; and fancying, in... ...art, I had the unpardonable folly to quit the deep tranquillities of North Wales for the uproars, and perils, and the certain miseries, of London. I h... ... Manx half-pennies, which lately I had con- tinually seen current in North Wales, bearing for their heral- dic distinction three human legs in armor, ... ...tles to consid- eration. Dr. Cyril Jackson had been tutor to the Prince of Wales (George IV.); he had repeatedly refused a bishopric; and that, perhap... ...sions,” a thousandth part of the sufferings I under- went in London and in Wales; partly because the misery was too monotonous, and, in that respect, ...

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Letters on England

By: Voltaire, 1694-1778

..., at her return to England, communicated the experiment to the Princess of Wales, now Queen of En- gland. It must be confessed that this princess, abs...

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