 | James Philemon Holcombe - English letters - 1866 - 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...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 - Great Britain - 1867 - 672 pages
...appearing distinctly and with the happiest clriaro scuro. * "The real serious part," continues Walpole, "was the figure of the Duke of Cumberland, heightened...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,... | |
 | 1870 - 784 pages
...Lyttleton to Mrs. Montague, Nov. 5, 1760. || Walpole to G. Montague, Nov. 4. part" of it he limits to the figure of the Duke of Cumberland, " heightened...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,... | |
 | Dr. Doran (John) - Queens - 1875 - 538 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....heightened by a thousand melancholy circumstances. lie had a dark-brown adonis, with a cloak of black cloth, and a train of five yards. Attending the... | |
 | William Baptiste Scoones - English letters - 1880 - 606 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,... | |
 | William Baptiste Scoones - English letters - 1880 - 608 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 Churchill, Thomas Parnell, Thomas Tickell - 1880 - 724 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 witn his late paralytic stroke, which has affected... | |
 | Horace Walpole - 1880 - 564 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...circumstances. He had a dark brown adonis, and a cloak of Hack cloth, with a train of five yards. Attending the funeral of a father could not he pleasant : his... | |
 | William Baptiste Scoones - English letters - 1880 - 644 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 ;i thousand melancholy circumstances. He had a dark brown iulonis, and a cloak of black cloth, with... | |
 | English history - 1881 - 888 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...heightened by a thousand melancholy circumstances. He had ;i dark brown adonis, and a cloak of black cloth, with a train of five guards. 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... 
