 I saw him again yesterday, and was surprised to find the levee-room had lost so entirely the air of the lion's den. This Sovereign don't stand in one spot, with his eyes fixed royally on the ground, and dropping bits of German news; he walks about, and...  The miscellaneous prose works of sir Walter Scott - Page 368by sir Walter Scott (bart [prose, collected]) - 1827Full view - About this book
 | England - 1818 - 762 pages
...levee room had lost so entirely the air of the lion's den. This sovereign don't stand in one spot, with his eyes fixed royally on the ground, and dropping...bits of German news ; he walks about and speaks to every body. I saw him afterwards on the throne, where he is graceful and genteel, sits with dignity,... | |
 | 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 - 1818 - 622 pages
...royally on the ground, and dropping bits of German news ; he walks about and speaks to every body. 1 saw him afterwards on the throne, where he is graceful...dignity, and reads his answers to addresses well.' — p. 222. There are readers to whom Henry Fielding may be a more interesting personage than princes,... | |
 | 1818 - 806 pages
...levee room had lost so entirely the air of the lion's den. This sovereign don't stand in one spot, with his eyes fixed royally on the ground, and dropping...bits of German news ; he walks about and speaks to every body. I saw him afterwards on the throne, where he is graceful and genteel, sits with dignity,... | |
 | 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 - 1818 - 600 pages
...the levee room had lost so entirely the air of the lion's den. This sovereign don't stand in one spot with his eyes fixed royally on the ground, and dropping...bits of German news ; he walks about and speaks to every body. 1 saw him afterwards on the throne, where he is graceful and genteel, sits with dignity,... | |
 | 1818 - 598 pages
...levee room had lost so entirely the air of the lion's den. This sovereign don't stand in one spot, with his eyes fixed royally on the ground, and dropping...bits of German news; he walks about and speaks to every body. 1 saw him afterwards on the throne, where he is graceful and genteel, sits with dignity,... | |
 | H. Biglow, Orville Luther Holley - American literature - 1818 - 500 pages
...levee-room had lost so entirely the air of the lion's den. This sovereign don't stand on one spot, with his eyes fixed royally on the ground, and dropping...bits of German news ; he walks about and speaks to every body. I saw him afterwards on the throne, wnere he is graceful and genteel, sits with dignity,... | |
 | English literature - 1818 - 606 pages
...ground, and dropping bits of German news ; he walks about and speaks to every body. I saw him afterward* on the throne, where he is graceful and genteel, sits...dignity, and reads his answers to addresses well.' — p. 222. There are readers to whom Henry Fielding may be a more interesting personage than princes,... | |
 | John Watkins - Queens - 1819 - 670 pages
...levee- room had lost so entirely the air of the lion's den. This sovereign don't stand in one spot, with his eyes fixed royally on the ground, and dropping...bits of German news : he walks about, and speaks to every body. I saw him afterwards on the throne, where he is graceful and genteel, sits with dignity,... | |
 | 1820 - 856 pages
...Levee-room had lost so entirely the air of the lion's den. This sovereign don't stand in one spot, with his eyes fixed royally on the ground, and dropping...bits of German news; he walks about, and speaks to every body. I saw him afterwards on the throne, where he is graceful and genteel, sits with dignity,... | |
 | 1819 - 630 pages
...levee room had lost so entirely the air of the lion's den. This sovereign don't stand in one spot, with his eyes fixed royally on the ground, and dropping bits of German news ; be walks about and speaks to every body. I saw him afterwards on the throne, where he is graceful... | |
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