 | Horace Walpole - Authors, English - 1895 - 316 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...adonis, and a cloak of black cloth, with a train of five yard?. 66 Funeral of iJte late King. Attending the funeral of a father could not be pleasant : his... | |
 | John Clark Ridpath - Literature - 1898 - 600 pages
...the Duke of Northumberland, heightened by a thousand melancholy circumstances. He had a dark-brown 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,... | |
 | Richard Garnett - 1899 - 432 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,... | |
 | Richard Garnett, Léon Vallée, Alois Brandl - Anthologies - 1899 - 430 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,... | |
 | R. McWilliam - English literature - 1900 - 834 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,... | |
 | Robert McWilliam - English literature - 1900 - 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 u thousand melancholy circumstances. He had a dark brown adonis, and a cloak of black cloth with a... | |
 | John Heneage Jesse - Great Britain - 1901 - 436 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 near two hours ; his face bloated and distorted with his late paralytic stroke, which has affected,... | |
 | John Heneage Jesse - Great Britain - 1901 - 426 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 near two hours; his face bloated and distorted with his late paralytic stroke, which has affected,... | |
 | John Heneage Jesse - Great Britain - 1901 - 448 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 ;... | |
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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... 
