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" The Queen arrived with a train of Portuguese ladies in their monstrous fardingales, or guard-infantes, their complexions olivader * and sufficiently unagreeable. Her Majesty in the same habit, her fore-top long and turned aside very strangely. She was... "
Brambletye House: Or, Cavaliers and Roundheads : a Novel - Page 108
by Horace Smith - 1826 - 413 pages
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Portraits of Illustrious Personages of Great Britain: Engraved from ...

Edmund Lodge - 1835 - 290 pages
...disagreeable : Her Majesty in the same habit ; her foretop long, and turned aside very strangely : She was yet of the handsomest countenance of all the rest, and,...wronging her mouth by sticking a little too far out 'f for the rest, lovely enough." Charles, who was a mere creature of sense, was for a time, as Burnet...
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Portraits of Illustrious Personages of Great Britain, Volume 9

Edmund Lodge - 1835 - 286 pages
...and turned aside very strangely : She was yet of the handsomest countenance of all the rest, arid, though low of stature, prettily shaped ; languishing...little too far out ; for the rest lovely enough." Charles, who was a mere creature of sense, was for a time, as Burnet tells us, " well pleased with...
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Brambletye House, Or, Cavaliers and Roundheads

Horace Smith - 1837 - 316 pages
...description of an eyewitness, who, speaking of her majesty and her Portuguese ladies, says, " She was yet of the handsomest countenance of all the rest, and...prettily shaped, languishing and excellent eyes, her tcetlTwronging her mouth by sticking a little too far out; for the rest lovely enough." "Expressing...
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Life and Administration of Edward, First Earl of Clarendon: The life of ...

Thomas Henry Lister - 1838 - 622 pages
...Vol. III. 192. 195. + Vol. III. p. 156. If Clar. State Papers, iii. Supp. xx. " She was," says Evelyn, though * low of stature, prettily shaped; languishing...little too far out . for the " rest, lovely enough." (Evelyn, ii. 190.) Pepys commends her good looks. (Pepys, i. 271, 272.) VI. 1662. M«y 21. CHAP, who...
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Life and Administration of Edward, First Earl of Clarendon: The life of ...

Thomas Henry Lister - 1838 - 614 pages
...Vol. III. 192. 195. + Vol. III. p. 156. J Clar. State Papers, iii. Supp. xx. " She was," says Evelyn, though " low of stature, prettily shaped ; languishing...little too far out : for the " rest, lovely enough." (Evelyn, ii. 190.) Pepys commends her good looks. (Pepys, i. 271, 272.) who wrote that her eyes were...
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Windsor Castle, and Its Environs

Leitch Ritchie - 1840 - 356 pages
...disagreeable ; her Majesty in the same habit; her foretop long, and turned aside very strangely : she was yet of the handsomest countenance of all the rest, and...stature, prettily shaped ; languishing and excellent eyes j her teeth wronging her mouth by sticking a little too far out; for the rest lovely enough." In the...
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Environs of London: Western Division

John Fisher Murray - 1842 - 322 pages
...pair, says :—" Her Majesty was yet of the handsomest countenance of all the rest; and, though of low stature, prettily shaped, languishing and excellent...a little too far out: for the rest lovely enough." James II. made Hampton Court his occasional residence; and here, under a canopy still existing, did...
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The Visitor's Guide to the Sights of London: Including the National ...

1844 - 320 pages
...unagreeable. Her Majesty in the same habit, her foretop long, and turned aside very strangely. She was yet of the handsomest countenance of all the rest, and,...a little too far out ; for the rest lovely enough. " 31. — I saw thequeen at dinner ; the judges came lo compliment her arrival, and after them the...
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Memoirs of Eminent Englishwomen, Volume 2

Louisa Stuart Costello - 1844 - 450 pages
...aside, very strangely. She was yet of the handsomest countenance of all the rest, and, though of low stature, prettily shaped ; languishing and excellent...little too far out : for the rest, lovely enough. ****** " Now saw I her Portuguese ladies, and the guarda-dames, or mother of her maids, and the old...
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Memoirs of Eminent Englishwomen, Volume 2

Louisa Stuart Costello - 1844 - 436 pages
...aside, very strangely. She was yet of the handsomest countenance of all the rest, and, though of low stature, prettily shaped ; languishing and excellent eyes ; her teeth wronging her mouth, by xticking a little too far out: for the rest, lovely enough. ****** " Now saw I her Portuguese ladies,...
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