 | England - 1818 - 762 pages
...besides being immeasurably tedious, would have served as well for a nuptial. The real serious part was the figure of the Duke of Cumberland, heightened...melancholy circumstances. He had a dark brown adonis, and a claalt of black cloth, with a train of five yards. Attending the funeral of a father could not be pleasant:... | |
 | H. Biglow, Orville Luther Holley - American literature - 1818 - 500 pages
...funeral :"---- After describing the state, procession to Westminster Abbey, fcc: " The real serious part was the figure of the duke of Cumberland, heightened...his leg extremely bad, yet forced to stand upon it nearly two hours ; his face bloated and distorted with his late paralytic stroke, which has affected,... | |
 | William Jerdan, William Ring Workman, Frederick Arnold, John Morley, Charles Wycliffe Goodwin - 1818 - 862 pages
...funeral :" ... After describing the state, procession to Westminster Abbey, &c. " The real serious part was the figure of the Duke of Cumberland, heightened...black cloth, with a train of five yards. Attending the fuueral of a father could not be pleasant : his leg extremely bad, yet forced to stand upon it nearly... | |
 | 1818 - 598 pages
...besides being immeasurably tedious, would have served as well for a nuptial. The real serious part was the figure of the duke of Cumberland, heightened...circumstances. He had a dark brown adonis, and a cloak ot' black cloth, with a train of rive yards. Attending the funeral of a father could not be pleasant:... | |
 | English literature - 1818 - 606 pages
...besides being immeasurably tedious, would have served as well lor a nuptial. The i <•:> I serious part was the figure of the duke of Cumberland, heightened...melancholy circumstances. He had a dark brown adonis, and a clunk of black cloth, with a train of five yards. Attending the funeral of a father could not be pleasant:... | |
 | English literature - 1819 - 950 pages
...served as well lor a nuptial. The real serious part was Ibe figure of the Duke of Cumberland, heighteoed by a thousand melancholy circumstances. He had a dark...with a train of five yards. Attending the funeral of n father could not be pleasant : his leg extremely bad, yet forced to stand upon it near two hours;... | |
 | Robert Huish - Great Britain - 1821 - 746 pages
...besides being immeasurably tedious, would have served as well for a nuptial. The real serious part was the figure of the duke of Cumberland, heightened by a thousand melancholy circumstances. He had a dark-brown adonis, and a cloak of black cloth, with a train of five yards. Attending the funeral of... | |
 | Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - Literature - 1857 - 672 pages
...made a topic of foremost interest in one of the letters to George Montague. " The real serious part was the figure of the Duke of Cumberland, heightened...pleasant : his leg extremely bad, yet forced to stand npon it near two hoars ; his face bloated and distorted with his late paralytic stroke, which has affected,... | |
 | Horace Walpole - 1837 - 490 pages
...besides being immensurably tedious, would have served as well for a nuptial. The real serious part was the figure of the duke of Cumberland, heightened by a thousand melancholy circumstances. He had a dark-brown adonis, and a cloak of black cloth, with a train of five yards. Attending the funeral of... | |
 | Horace Walpole (4th earl of Orford.) - 1837 - 484 pages
...besides being immensurably tedious, would have served as well for a nuptial. The real serious part was the figure of the duke of Cumberland, heightened by a thousand melancholy circumstances. He had a dark-brown adonis, and a cloak of black cloth, with a train of five yards. Attending the funeral of... | |
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Man that is born of a woman," was chanted, not read; and the anthem, besides being immeasurably tedious, would have served as well for a nuptial. The real serious part was the figure of the Duke of Cumberland, heightened by a thousand melancholy circumstances.... 
