 | William Pitt (Earl of Chatham) - 1838 - 548 pages
...read, and the anthem, besides being immeasurably tedious, would have served as well for a nuptial. The real serious part was the figure of the Duke of Cumberland, heightened by a thousand melapcholy circumstances. He had a dark brown VOL. II. G beg you will give me leave to wait upon you... | |
 | Horace Walpole - 1840 - 540 pages
...read ; and the anthem, besides being immeasurably tedious, would have served as well for a nuptial. The real serious part was the figure of the Duke of...his leg extremely bad, yet forced to stand upon it near two hours; his face bloated and distorted with his late paralytic stroke, which has affected,... | |
 | Horace Walpole (4th earl of Orford.) - 1842 - 580 pages
...read; and the anthem, besides being immeasurably tedious, would have served as well for a nuptial. The real serious part was the figure of the Duke of...his leg extremely bad, yet forced to stand upon it near two hours; his face bloated and distorted with his late paralytic stroke, which has affected,... | |
 | Horace Walpole - 1842 - 580 pages
...read; and the anthem, besides being immeasurably tedious, would have served as well for a nuptial. The real serious part was the figure of the Duke of...his leg extremely bad, yet forced to stand upon it near two hours; his face bloated and distorted with his late paralytic stroke, which has affected,... | |
 | Horace Walpole - 1842 - 574 pages
...read; and the anthem, besides being immeasurably tedious, would have served as well for a nuptial. The real serious part was the figure of the Duke of...his leg extremely bad, yet forced to stand upon it near two hours; his face bloated and distorted with his late paralytic stroke, which has affected,... | |
 | John Heneage Jesse - 1843 - 492 pages
...ceremony of his father's interment in Westminster Abbey. " The real serious part," writes Walpole, " was the figure of the Duke of Cumberland, heightened...circumstances. He had a dark brown adonis, and a cloak of brown cloth, with a train of five yards. Attending the funeral of a father could not be pleasant: his... | |
 | Charles Churchill, William Tooke - 1844 - 380 pages
...read ; and the anthem, besides being immeasurably tedious, would have served as well for a nuptial. The real serious part was the figure of the Duke of...his leg extremely bad, yet forced to stand upon it near two hours ; his face bloated and distorted with his late paralytic stroke, which has affected... | |
 | Earl Philip Henry Stanhope Stanhope - 1844 - 608 pages
...fretted roof, all appearing distinctly. "... The Bishop read sadly, and blundered in the " prayers. . . . The real serious part was the figure " of the Duke...heightened by a " thousand melancholy circumstances. . . . Attend" ing the funeral of a father could not be plea" sant ; his leg extremely bad, yet forced... | |
 | Philip Henry Stanhope (5th earl.) - 1844 - 628 pages
...fretted roof, all appearing distinctly. "... The Bishop read sadly, and blundered in the " prayers. . . . The real serious part was the figure " of the Duke...heightened by a " thousand melancholy circumstances. . . . Attend" ing the funeral of a father could not be plea" sant ; his leg extremely bad, yet forced... | |
 | George Harris - 1847 - 620 pages
...read ; and the anthem, besides being immeasurably tedious, would have served as well for a nuptial. The real serious part was the- figure of the Duke...his leg extremely bad, yet forced to stand upon it for two hours ; his face bloated and distorted with his late paralytic stroke, and placed over the... | |
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Attending the funeral of a father could not be pleasant: his leg extremely bad, yet forced to stand upon it near two hours; his face bloated and distorted with his late paralytic stroke, which has affected, too, one of his eyes, and placed... 
