 | Graeme Mercer Adam, George Stewart - Humanities - 1873 - 580 pages
...becoming.' " 7he Duke of York, the eldest of the Regent's brothers. ' Tall, with immense embonpoint, and not proportionately strong legs ; he holds himself...backwards ; very bald, and not a very intelligent face : one can see that eating, drinking, and sensual pleasure, are everything to him. Spoke a good deal... | |
 | Graeme Mercer Adam, George Stewart - Humanities - 1873 - 594 pages
...becoming.' " The Duke of York, the eldest of the Regent's brothers. ' Tall, with immense embonpoint, and not proportionately strong legs ; he holds himself...will tumble over backwards ; very bald, and not a ver)' intelligent face : one can see that eating, drinking, and sensual pleasure, are everything to... | |
 | Eneas Sweetland Dallas - General - 1873 - 584 pages
...with immense embonpoint, and not proportionately strong legs." This is a charming touch of nature: " He holds himself in such a way that one is always afraid he will tumble over backwards. Very bald. One can see that eating, drinking, and sensual pleasure are everything to him." ONCE A WEEK. [January... | |
 | Goldwin Smith - American essays - 1881 - 356 pages
...Regent's brothers. ' Tall, with immense embonpoint, and not proportionately strong legs ; he holds himaelf in such a way that one is always afraid he will tumble...backwards ; very bald, and not a very intelligent face : one can see that eating, drinking, and sensual pleasure are everything to him. Spoke a good deal... | |
 | Percy Fitzgerald - Great Britain - 1882 - 362 pages
...becoming. " The Duke of York, the eldest of the regent's brothers. — Tall, with immense embonpoint, and not proportionately strong legs ; he holds himself...backwards ; very bald, and not a very intelligent face ; one can see that eating, drinking, and sensual pleasure are everything to him. Spoke a good deal... | |
 | Percy Fitzgerald - Great Britain - 1882 - 372 pages
...good French. He ate and drank a good deal at dinner. His brown scratch wig not particularly becoming. one is always afraid he will tumble over backwards; very bald, and not a very intelligent face ; one can see that eating, drinking, and sensual 'pleasure are everything to him. Spoke a good deal... | |
 | George Edward Cokayne - Nobility - 1898 - 582 pages
...YTHAN, see EYTHIN. in 1816 as "tall, with immense en bon point and not proportionately strong logs, ho holds himself in such a way that one is always afraid...backwards ; very bald and not a very intelligent face." Greville [Hfcmoiri] writes of him that he " is not clever but he lias justness of understanding ...... | |
 | Lewis Saul Benjamin - Great Britain - 1906 - 398 pages
...Archbishop of Canterbury. Years later Stockmar described him • " Tall, with immense embonpoint, and not proportionately strong legs : he holds himself...backwards : very bald, and not a very intelligent face : one can see that eating, drinking, and sensual pleasure are everything to him. Spoke a great deal... | |
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Tall, with immense embonpoint, and not proportionately strong legs ; he holds himself in such a way that one is always afraid he will tumble over backwards ; very bald, and not a very intelligent face : one can see that eating, drinking, and sensual pleasure,... 