 | England - 1871 - 836 páginas
...they are loaded are marks of her continual fondness fur dress, while they entirely exclude all grace, and leave no more room for a painter's genius than...ruff, a vaster fardingale, and a bushel of pearls, are tho features by which everybody knows at onco the pictures of Queen Elizabeth." Tho architecture of... | |
 | 1875 - 486 páginas
...marks of her fondness for dress ; while they entirely exclude all grace, and leave no more room for the painter's genius than if he had been employed to copy...and powdered with diamonds, a vast ruff, a vaster farthingale, and a bushel of pearls, are the features by which every one knows the portrait of Queen... | |
 | William Willshire - 1875 - 112 páginas
...hair is of a sandy colour, her eomplection rather fair. " A pale Homan nose," says Horace Walpole, " a head of hair loaded with crowns and powdered with diamonds, a vast ruff, a vaster fardingate, and a bushel of pe iris, are the features by which everybody knows at onc« the picture... | |
 | 1875 - 466 páginas
...dressed in these fashions, standing side by side, could not join hands. Wolpole has the following : " A pale Roman nose, a head of hair loaded with crowns, and powered with diamonds, a vast ruff, a vaster farthingale, and a bushel of pearls, are the features... | |
 | Horace Walpole - 1876 - 446 páginas
...they are loaded are marks of her continual fondness for dress, while they entirely exclude all grace, and leave no more room for a painter's genius than...Roman nose, a head of hair loaded with crowns and powered with diamonds, a vast ruff, a vaster fardingale, and a bushel of pearls, are the features by... | |
 | Our own country - 1878 - 714 páginas
...and Philip in their "courting" days, half seated and half standing, in stiff, ungainly attitudes. " A pale Roman nose, a head of hair loaded with crowns and powdered with diamonds, a vast ruff, and still vaster fardingale, and a bushel of pearls, are the features by which everybody knows at once... | |
 | 1879 - 512 páginas
...marks of her fondness for dress ; while they entirely exclude all grace, and leave no more room for the painter's genius than if he had been employed to copy...and powdered with diamonds, a vast ruff, a vaster farthingale, and a bushel of pearls, are the features by which every one knows the portrait of Q,ueen... | |
 | Miss Ludlow - 1879 - 494 páginas
...marks of her fondness for dress ; while they entirely exclude all grace, and leave no more room for the painter's genius than if he had been employed to copy...and powdered with diamonds, a vast ruff, a vaster farthingale, and a bushel of pearls, are the features by which every one knows the portrait of Q,ueen... | |
 | Agnes Strickland - 1882 - 816 páginas
...fondness for dress, while they entirely exclude all grace, and leave no more room for a painter's genins than if he had been employed to copy an Indian idol, totally composed ol hands and necklaces. A pale Roman nose, a head of hair 1 Stowe, p. 867. The good annalist continues... | |
 | Agnes Strickland - 1885 - 824 páginas
...they are loaded are marks of her continual fondness for dress, while they entirely exclude all grace, and leave no more room for a painter's genius than...employed to copy an Indian idol, totally composed ot hands and necklaces. A pale Roman nose, a head of hair 1 Stowe, p. 8G7. The good annalist continues... | |
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... there is not a single portrait of her that one can call beautiful. The profusion of ornaments with which they are loaded are marks of her continual fondness for dress, while they entirely exclude all grace, and leave no more room for a painter's genius... 
