Byepaths of BiographyT. Nelson and Sons, 1863 - 278 páginas |
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Página 228 - Latin, and the languages I have mentioned, she is mistress of Spanish, Scotch, and Dutch. Whoever speaks to her, it is kneeling ; now and then she raises some with her hand. While we were there, W.
Página 228 - ... kneeled, as the others had done, and placed what was brought upon the table, they too retired with the same ceremonies performed by the first. At last came an unmarried lady (we...
Página 110 - God thus to make her his instrument, or her extraordinary affection to our nation, I know not. But of this I am sure ; when her father, with the utmost of his...
Página 227 - She had on a necklace of exceeding fine jewels; her hands were small ; her fingers long ; and her stature neither tall nor low ; her air was stately ; her manner of speaking mild and obliging. That day she was dressed in white silk, bordered with pearls of the size of beans, and over it a mantle of black silk shot with silver threads...
Página 106 - ... two rowes of men, and behind them as many women, with all their heads and shoulders painted red; many of their heads bedecked with the white downe of Birds; but every one with something: and a great chayne of white beads about their necks.
Página 230 - Mayor, attended by the 12 principal Aldermen, to walk in a neighbouring Field, dressed in his Scarlet Gown, and about his neck a Golden Chain...
Página 230 - ... and they on horseback. Upon their arrival at a place appointed for that purpose, where a tent is pitched, the mob begin to wrestle before them, two at a time: the conquerors receive rewards from the magistrates.
Página 111 - Having reaccommodated themselves, they solemnly invited him to their lodgings, where he was no sooner within the house, but all these Nymphes more tormented him then ever, with crowding, pressing, and hanging about him, most tediously crying, Love you not me?
Página 107 - With this imaginary wealth the first vessel returning to England was loaded, while the culture of the land, and every useful occupation,
Página 227 - Queen, in the sixty-fifth year of her age, as we were told, very majestic; her face oblong, fair but wrinkled; her eyes small, yet black and pleasant, her nose a little hooked; her lips narrow, and...