 | Paul Elmer More - 1906 - 304 pages
...train of five yards. Attending the funeral of a father, how little reason so ever he had to love him, 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,... | |
 | Sir Theodore Andrea Cook - 1907 - 498 pages
...body to the grave. Walpole gives a pathetic picture of the scene in a letter to George Montagu : " 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,... | |
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - 1911 - 744 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,... | |
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - 1911 - 754 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,... | |
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - 1911 - 744 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,... | |
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - 1911 - 752 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...cloak of black cloth, with a train of five yards. Attendin^jLhe funeral of a father could not be pleasant; his leg extremely bad, yet forced to stand... | |
 | Horace Walpole - 1914 - 428 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,... | |
 | Claude Moore Fuess - 1914 - 136 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, 25 heightened by a thousand melancholy circumstances. He had a dark brown adonis, and a cloak of black... | |
 | Arthur Quiller-Couch - 1925 - 1262 pages
...read, and the anthem, besides being unmeasurably tedious, would have served as well for a nuptial. The real serious part was the figure of the Duke of...of five yards. Attending the funeral of a father, however little reason he had so to love him, could not be pleasant. His leg extremely bad, yet forced... | |
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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... 
