 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1834 - 594 pages
...the countenance is permitted to be visible. The long black rows of veiled heads which we constantly saw in the churches often made me fancy myself surrounded...ancestors ; we remarked many beautiful women, who, both iu feature and complexion, gave indication of southern forefathers. Yet, if I mistake not, it was under... | |
 | 576 pages
...southern complexions— that "deep Catholicism" is the religio loci— and that yet, if she mistakes not, it was under Philip the Second that Flanders revolted from Spain ! She goes on to relate, that the inhabitants of Antwerp have a great affection for old Chasse, the... | |
 | Thomas Harttree Cornish - Women - 1836 - 538 pages
...the countenance is permitted to be visible. The long black rows of veiled heads which we constantly saw in the churches, often made me fancy myself surrounded...forefathers. Yet, if I mistake not, it was under Philip II. that Flanders revolted from Spain. One should imagine that years enough had passed over them to... | |
 | 1834 - 602 pages
...the countenance is permitted to be visible. The long black rows of veiled heads which we constantly saw in the churches often made me fancy myself surrounded...forefathers. Yet, if I mistake not, it was under Philip II. that Flanders revolted from Spain. One should imagine that years enough had passed over them to... | |
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... changed for an ample veil of rich black silk, that completely envelopes the head and shoulders. In both dresses the face is concealed in a considerable degree ; and when in the act of devotion, no part of the countenance is permitted to be visible.... 