The person of the king is as perfect in my memory as if I saw him but yesterday. It was that of an elderly man, rather pale, and exactly like his pictures and coins; not tall; of an aspect rather good than august; with a dark tie-wig, a plain coat, waistcoat,... Bentley's Quarterly Review - Page 2431859Full view - About this book
| Horace Walpole - 1818 - 134 pages
...famous Philip Stanhope, carl of Chesterfield. of an aspect rather good than august, with a dark tie wig, a plain coat, waistcoat, and breeches of snuff-coloured...stockings of the same colour, and a blue riband over all. So entirely was he my object, that I do not believe I once looked at the duchess ; but as I could not... | |
| 1821 - 464 pages
...exactly like his pictures and coins; not tall, of an aspect rather good than august, with a dark tie wig, a plain coat, waistcoat, and breeches of snuff-coloured...stockings of the same colour, and a blue riband over all. So entirely was he my object, that I do not believe I once looked at the duchess ; but as I could not... | |
| George Moir - 1827 - 466 pages
...rather pale, and exactly like his pictures and coins ; not tall, of an aspect rather good than august, with a dark tie-wig, a plain coat, waistcoat, and...stockings of the same colour, and a blue riband over all. So entirely was he my object that I do not believe I once looked at the Duchess ; but as I could not... | |
| Horace Walpole - 1830 - 356 pages
...like his pictures and coins ; not tall, of an aspect rather good than august, with a dark lie wig, a plain coat, waistcoat, and breeches of snuff-coloured...stockings of the same colour, and a blue riband over all. So entirely was he my object, that I do not believe I once looked at the duchess j but as I could not... | |
| 1832 - 592 pages
...exactly like his pictures and coins; not tall, of an aspect rather good than august, with a dark tie wig, a plain coat, waistcoat and breeches, of snuff-coloured...stockings of the same colour, and a blue riband over all. In his old age, the king was guilty 24 GEORGE THE FIRST. of the wickedness and folly of taking an additional... | |
| Englishmen - 1835 - 476 pages
...not tall — of an aspect rather good than august — with a dark tie wig, a plain coat, waistcoat, breeches of snuff-coloured cloth, with stockings of the same colour, and a blue riband over all." His own grand-daughter, the princess of Bareuth, in her ' Memoires,' characterizes him as a very stupid... | |
| Mrs. A. T. Thomson - 1839 - 608 pages
...an aspect rather good than august, and dressed in a style equally unobtrusive with his character : a dark tie-wig, a plain coat, waistcoat, and breeches,...cloth, with stockings of the same colour, and a blue ribbon over all, constituted an attire widely different from the gay and costly habiliments of the... | |
| Horace Walpole - 1842 - 594 pages
...rather pale, and exactly like his pictures and coins ; not tall ; of an aspect rather good than august ; with a dark tie-wig, a plain coat, waistcoat, and...stockings of the same colour, and a blue riband over all. So entirely was he my object that I do not believe I once looked at the duchess ; but as I could not... | |
| Horace Walpole - 1842 - 592 pages
...rather pale, and exactly like his pictures and coins; not tall; of an aspect rather good than august; with a dark tie-wig, a plain coat, waistcoat, and...stockings of the same colour, and a blue riband over all. So entirely was he my object that I do not believe I once looked at the duchess ; but as I could not... | |
| John Heneage Jesse - 1843 - 470 pages
...rather pale, and exactly like his pictures and coins ; not tall, of an aspect rather good than august, with a dark tie-wig, a plain coat, waistcoat, and...stockings of the same colour, and a blue riband over all. So entirely was he my object, that I do not believe I once looked at the Duchess ; but as I could not... | |
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