 | William Robertson - Europe - 1810 - 412 pages
...hands and arms remarkably delicate, both as to shape and colour. Her stature was of an height that rose to the majestic. She danced, she walked, and...lute with uncommon skill. Towards the end of her life she began to grow fat, and her long confinement, and the coldness of the houses in which she was imprisoned,... | |
 | James Kennedy (of Glasgow.) - 1810 - 424 pages
...hands and arms remarkably delicate, both as to shape, and colour. Her stature was majestfc, she danced, walked, and rode with equal grace. Her taste for music...sung, and played upon the lute with uncommon skill. " No man," says Brantome, "ever beheld her person without admiration and love, or will read her history... | |
 | Nicolas Gouin Dufief - Commercial correspondence, Spanish - 1811 - 606 pages
...her hands and arms remarkably delicate both as to shape and colour. Her stature was of a height that rose to the majestic. She danced, she walked, and...played upon the lute with uncommon skill. — Towards tin, end of her life she begon to grow fat ; and her long confinement, and the coldness of the houses... | |
 | William Robertson - Scotland - 1811 - 538 pages
...height that rose to the ma• jestic. She danced, she walked, and rode with equal grace. Her taste tor music was just, and she both sung and played upon...the lute with uncommon skill. Towards the end of her lik-, long confinement, and the coldness of the houses in which she had been imprisoned, brought on... | |
 | Elegant extracts - 1812 - 316 pages
...hands and arms remarkably delicate, both as to shape and colour. Her stature was of an height that rose to the majestic. She danced, she walked, and...lute with uncommon skill. Towards the end of her life she began to grow fat, and her long confmement, and the coldness of the houses in which she was imprisoned,... | |
 | William Scott - Elocution - 1814 - 424 pages
...her hands and arms remarkably delicate, both as to shape and color. Her stature was of an height that rose to the majestic. She danced, she walked and rode...with uncommon skill. Towards the end of her life, she began to grow fat ; and her long confinement, and the coldness of the houses in which she was imprisoned... | |
 | Nicolas Gouin Dufief - English language - 1817 - 594 pages
...her hands and arms remarkably delicate both as to shape and coloiy. Her stature was of a height that rose to the majestic. She danced, she walked, and...with uncommon skill. — Towards the end of her life she began to grow fat ; and her long confinement, and the coldness of the houses in which she was imprisoned,... | |
 | David Ramsay - World history - 1819 - 364 pages
...countenance, and elegance of shape, of which the human form is capable. Her stature was of the height that rose to the majestic. She danced, she walked, and...sung and played upon the lute with uncommon skill. No man ever beheld her person without admiration and love, or will read her history without sorrow.... | |
 | William Scott - Children's stories - 1820 - 422 pages
...her hands and arms remarkably delicate, both cs to shape and color. Her slature \vas of an htightthat rose to the majestic. She danced, she walked and rode...lute, with uncommon skill. Towards the end of her life she began to grow fat ; and her long confinement, and the coldness of the houses in which she was imprisoned,... | |
 | William Scott - Children's stories - 1820 - 398 pages
...an height that rose to the majestic. She danced, she walked aud rode with equal grace. ' Her tasle for music was just ; and she both sung and played...with uncommon skill. Towards the end of her life, she began to grow fat; and her long confinement, and the coldness of the houses in which she was imprisoned,... | |
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Her eyes were a dark gray, her complexion was exquisitely fine, and her hands and arms remarkably delicate, both as to shape and colour. Her stature was of a height that rose to the majestic. She danced, she walked, and rode with equal grace. Her taste... 
