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Mr Jeaffreson has written: 'Living in history as the most sagacious and enlightened sovereign of her epoch, Her Majesty will also stand before posterity as the finest type of feminine excellence given to human nature in the nineteenth century; even as her husband will stand before posterity as the brightest example of princely worth given to the age that is drawing to a close.
Endowed with a princely fortune, and an undying passion for the possession of books, he spent nearly a million dollars in their acquisition. The catalogue filled 13 octavo volumes, and the sale occupied 216 days. Yet the owner of this vast mass of mingled nonsense and erudition, this library of the curiosities of literature, was as generous in imparting as in acquiring his literary treasures.
"If I had known in the least or suspected that he was not what he ought to be in the service of My Lords the States and of your princely Grace and for the welfare and tranquillity of the land, I should have been well on my guard against letting myself in the least into any kind of communication with him whatever."
However well built the new Carthage might be, it could not pretend to compare with a city more than a thousand years old, which at all periods of its history had maintained the princely taste for building, and which a long line of emperors had never ceased to embellish.
Mildred was agreeably surprised she was looking with fierce determination for agreeable surprises when the costly little man spoke, in a quiet, pleasant voice with an elusive, attractive foreign accent. "My, but this is grand grand, General Siddall!" said Presbury in the voice of the noisy flatterer. "Princely! Royal!" Mildred glanced nervously at Siddall.
And then there floated before my entranced vision the princely figure of the Doge taking the Pope-blessed ring, and, advancing to the little gallery behind his throne on the Bucentaur, raising it high, and dropping it into the sea.
It seems Leighton has built himself a studio forty feet long. Mr. Barlow, the engraver, has a fine studio attached to the one you saw him in, and far larger. All these artists complain of nothing but the too great prosperity of the profession in these days; they tell me an artist's life is a princely one now. They live and dress like gentlemen, and their daughters might be 'clothed in scarlet.
"Never," say the annalists, "had there before been seen at Moscow a fête so sumptuous, joy so intense, or liberality so princely." The fête continued for three days, during which the emperor did not cease to distribute, with a liberal hand, proofs of his munificence. His bounty was extended from the metropolitan bishop down to the humblest soldier distinguished for his bravery or his wounds.
I don't want to cheat Jack Ketch, if I can. And it is no use your crying for help there is no one to hear, and these stone walls are thick. Stand there, my rich, my noble, my princely brother, and listen to the truth." He stood, holding by the wall, paralyzed with horror. "Yes, I murdered her!" Sybilla reiterated, with sneering triumph.
"Prince Abdul Calie did not appear to be of this opinion; he at this instant cast upon me a look full of benevolence; and whilst his father was absorbed in the contemplation of his rose-coloured diamond, which he weighed, I believe, a hundred times, the generous young prince presented to me that violet-coloured diamond which I brought for him. A princely gift made in a princely manner.
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