| 1822 - 694 pages
...Better training might have made something of the crown prince, of whom we have this description : — ' The prince of Asturias is a stout, healthy prince, with a good heart and clear head ; by a neglected education, and a continued suite of childish amusements, neither the one nor the other... | |
| English literature - 1844 - 698 pages
...avocations by his passion for the chace. ' The Prince of Asturias' [the King deposed by Buonaparte] has a good heart and clear head, but, by a neglected education...neither the one nor the other does him credit. The Princess [afterwards Queen] is of an engaging, affable character — artful and ambitious, joined to... | |
| English literature - 1844 - 568 pages
...chace. ' The Prince of Asturias' [the King deposed by Buonaparte^] has a good heart and clearhead, but, by a neglected education and a continued suite...neither the one nor the other does him credit. The Princess [afterwards Queen] is of an engaging, affable character — .artful and ambitious, joined... | |
| William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1844 - 572 pages
...avocations by his passion for the chace. ' The Prince of Asturias' [the King deposed by Buonaparte] has a good heart and clear head, but, by a neglected education...neither the one nor the other does him credit. The Princess [afterwards Queen] is of an engaging, affable character — artful and ambitious, joined to... | |
| Donald Burrows, Rosemary Dunhill, James Harris - Music - 2002 - 1268 pages
...repeated three times before the Court, in a spot destined for that purpose near the palace. [p. 53] The Prince of Asturias is a stout, healthy prince,...neglected education, and a continued suite of childish amusemems, neither the one nor the other does him credit He plays on the fiddle an hour every day,... | |
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