 | Alexander Chalmers - Biography - 1812 - 544 pages
...that earl, and used his utmost efTurts to supplant him, though in vain. For, upon his return from bis unsuccessful journey to Holland in 1674-5, his credit...disgust to him is thought to have been the earl's Idle inclining towards the popular opinions, and especially his apparent zealous proceedings against... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1833 - 472 pages
...behaviour, which was stiff and formal. Thus it was a common jest for some courtier to put a black patch on his nose, and strut about with a white staff in his hand, to make the King merry. But, notwithstanding, he retained his office of Lord Chamberlain and his seat... | |
 | Edmund Lodge - Great Britain - 1835 - 286 pages
...done against the Lord Chancellor Clarendon ;" (and by no one more frequently than by Bennet himself) " and it became a common jest for some courtier to put...about with a white staff in his hand, in order to make the King merry." The same author adds this remarkable anecdote — " Colonel Richard Talbot, afterwards... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1853 - 538 pages
...behaviour, which was stiff and formal. Thus it was a common jest for some courtier to put a black patch on his nose, and strut about with a white staff in his hand, to make the King merry. But, notwithstanding, he retained his office of Lord Chamberlain and bis seat... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1845 - 770 pages
...behaviour, which was stiff and formal. Thus it was a common jest for some courtier to put a black patch on his nose, and strut about with a white staff in his hand, to make the King merry. But, notwithstanding, he retained his office of Lord Chamberlain and his seat... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1853 - 752 pages
...bchaviour, which wos stilT and formal. Thus it was a common jest for >ome courtier to put a black palch on his nose, and strut about with a white staff in his hand, to make the King merry. But, notwithstanding, he retained his office of Lord ChumlHM-lam and his seat... | |
 | J. Houston Browne - Prime ministers - 1858 - 494 pages
...formerly done against the Lord Chancellor Clarendon, and it became a common jest for one of the courtiers to put a black patch upon his nose, and strut about with a white staff in his hand , in order to make the King merry; yet he held his Lord Chamberlain's place to the day of his death. The reason of... | |
 | Walter Scott - Great Britain - 1860 - 376 pages
...behaviour, which was stiff and formal. Thus it was a common jest for some courtier to put a black patch on his nose , and strut about with a white staff in his hand, to make the King merry. But, notwithstanding, he retained his office of Lord Chambcilain and his seat... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1864 - 476 pages
...behaviour, which was stiff and formal. Thus it was a common jest for some courtier to put a black patch on his nose, and strut about with a white staff in his hand, to make the King merry. But, notwithstanding, he retained his office of Lord Chamberlain and his seat... | |
 | Walter Scott - Great Britain - 1879 - 534 pages
...behaviour, which was stiff and formal. Thus it was a common jest for some courtier to put a black patch on his nose, and strut about with a white staff in his hand, to make the King merry. But, notwithstanding, he retained his office of Lord Chamberlain, and his seat... | |
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King was supposed to have lost respect for him ; and several persons at court took the liberty to mimic his person and behaviour, which was stiff and formal. Thus it was a common jest for some courtier to put a black patch on his nose, and strut about... 
