 ... next came the Queen, in the sixty-fifth year of her age, as we were told, very majestic; her face oblong, fair but wrinkled; her eyes small, yet black and pleasant, her nose a little hooked; her lips narrow, and her teeth black (a defect the English...  Fugitive Pieces, on Various Subjects - Page 273by Robert Dodsley - 1761Full view - About this book
 | 1840 - 504 pages
...very majestic ; her face oblong, fair, but wrinkled; her eyes small, but black and pleasant; her nose a little hooked, her lips narrow, and her teeth black (a defect the English seem subject to from their immoderate use of sugar) ; she had in her ears two pearls, with... | |
 | Agnes Strickland - 1840 - 600 pages
...majestic ; her face, oblong, fair, but wrinkled ; her eyes small, yet black and pleasant ; her nose a little hooked ; her lips narrow, and her teeth black, (a defect the English seem subject to, from their too great use of sugar.) She had in her ears two pearls, with very... | |
 | Charles Mackay - England, Southern - 1840 - 438 pages
...very majestic ; her face oblong, fair but wrinkled ; her eyes small, yet black and pleasant ; her nose a little hooked ; her lips narrow, and her teeth black (a defect, the English seem subject to, from their too great use of sugar) She had in her ears two pearls with very... | |
 | Nathan Drake - English literature - 1843 - 970 pages
...palace of Greenwich. Havinc mentioned the procession of barons, earls, knights, etc., he adds, — " ith mysterious reluctance, that he would find the window very insecure. On exa majesiic ; hi-r face oblong, fair, but wrinkled ; her eyes small, yet black and pleasant ; her nose... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1843 - 566 pages
...the royal sceptre, the other the sword of state, in a red scabbard, studded with golden fleur-de-lis, the point upwards : next came the Queen, in the sixty-fifth year of her age, we are told, very majestic ; her face oblong, fair but wrinkled ; her eyes small, yet black and pleasant... | |
 | Philip Alexander Prince - World history - 1843 - 776 pages
...very majestic ; her face oblong, but wrinkled ; her eyes small, yet black, and pleasant ; her nose a little hooked, her lips narrow, and her teeth black, (a defect to which the English seem subject, from their too great use of sugar) ; she had in her ears two very... | |
 | Henry Mead - Literary curiosa - 1846 - 254 pages
...very majestic ; her face oblong, fair, but wrinkled; her eyes small, yet black and pleasant; her nose a little hooked, her lips narrow, and her teeth black, (a defect the English seem subject to from their too great use of sugar). " She had in her ears two very rich pearls,... | |
 | 1847 - 334 pages
...portrait drawn by Hentzner from the life, while she held her court at Greenwich Placentia : — " Then came the Queen, in the sixty-fifth year of her age, as we were told, very majestic ; her face oblong, fair, but wrinkled ; her eyes small, yet black and pleasant ; her nose... | |
 | Henry Ince - 1848 - 120 pages
...thousand. Paul Hentzer, a German, who travelled in England in 1598, thus speaks of Elizabeth : — " Next came the queen, in the sixty-fifth year of her age, as we are told, very majestic ; her face oblong, fair, but wrinkled. She had in her ears two pearls, with... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - London (England) - 1848 - 348 pages
...very majestic ; her face oblong, fair but wrinkled ; her eyes small, yet black and pleasant ; her nose a little hooked, her lips narrow, and her teeth black (a defect the English seem subject to, from their too great use of sugar) ; she had in her ears two very rich pearls... | |
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