There were a king with a large jaw and a queen with a plain face, on the throne of England there were a king with a large jaw and a queen with a fair face, on the throne of France. The next part requires some scholarship as well: You'll be happy to know that even native speakers have trouble understanding what this means.
Is mostly poetic license, and relatively comprehensible - at least, up to "in the superlative degree of comparison only". We had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way - in short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only.
Yes, but it takes some intelligence and considerable education to read it without any effort at all.
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