 | Joseph Fitzgerald Molloy - 1882 - 318 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,... | |
 | Joseph Fitzgerald Molloy - 1882 - 320 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,... | |
 | Joseph Fitzgerald Molloy - 1882 - 376 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,... | |
 | Percy Hetherington Fitzgerald - 1882 - 408 pages
...figure of the Duke of Cumberland, heightened by a thousand melancholy circumstances. He had a darkbrown adonis, and a cloak of black cloth, with a train 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,... | |
 | Barbara Clay Finch - 1883 - 360 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...melancholy circumstances. He had a dark brown adonis, with a cloak of black cloth, and a train of five yards. Attending the funeral of a father could not... | |
 | Horace Walpole - 1890 - 334 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,... | |
 | 1890 - 978 pages
...Walpole's descriptive style, and is a contribution to his picture of the duke whom he despised : — The real serious part was the figure of the Duke of...heightened by a thousand melancholy circumstances. Me had a dark brown adonis and a cloak of black cloth, with a train of five yards. Attending the funeral... | |
 | Horace Walpole - 1891 - 584 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,... | |
 | Charles Augustus Maude Fennell - 1891 - 868 pages
...Fourth wig : G. ELIOT, Ato. Deroitda, Bk. i. ch. ip, 6. 3. a kind of fashionable wig of 18 c. 1760 He had a dark brown adonis, and a cloak of black cloth : HOR. WALPOLE, Letters, Vol. in. p. 362(1857), 1774 he has given you an Adonis-wig, which we should... | |
 | Francis Lancelott - 1894 - 586 pages
...and the anthem, besides being immeasurably tedious, would : havu served as well for a nuptial. IT« real serious part was the figure of the Duke of Cumberland,...heightened by a thousand melancholy circumstances ; he bail .1 dark-brown Adonis and a cloak »t black cloth, with n train of five yards. Attending the funeral... | |
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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... 
