 | John Heneage Jesse - Great Britain - 1901 - 444 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 ;... | |
 | John Heneage Jesse - Great Britain - 1902 - 492 pages
...appearing distinctly and with the happiest chiaro 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,... | |
 | Richard Garnett, Léon Vallée, Alois Brandl - Anthologies - 1890 - 450 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...could not be pleasant, — his leg extremely bad, 3'et forced to stand upon it near two hours ; his face bloated and distorted with his late paralytic... | |
 | Horace Walpole - Authors, English - 1903 - 492 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, how little reason so ever he had to love him, could not be pleasant. His leg extremely bad, yet forced... | |
 | Horace Walpole - Authors, English - 1903 - 486 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...melancholy circumstances. He had a dark brown adonis 3, and a cloak of black cloth, with a train of five yards. Attending the funeral of a father, how little... | |
 | Joseph Fitzgerald Molloy - Artists - 1906 - 372 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 Davey - London (England) - 1906 - 718 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...brown adonis, and a cloak of black cloth with a train five yards long : his leg extremely bad, yet forced to stand upon it near two hours : his face bloated... | |
 | Paul Elmer More - English literature - 1906 - 326 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...melancholy circumstances. He had a dark brown adonis [wig], and a cloak of black cloth, with a train of five yards. Attending the funeral of a father, how... | |
 | Paul Elmer More - American literature - 1907 - 306 pages
...of Cumberland, heightened by a thousand melancholy circumstances. He had a dark brown adonis [wig], and a cloak of black cloth, with a 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... | |
 | Paul Elmer More - English literature - 1906 - 302 pages
...of Cumberland, heightened by a thousand melancholy circumstances. He had a dark brown adonis [wig], and a cloak of black cloth, with a 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... | |
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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... 
