 ... yellow ; her face round and full ; her eye gray, delicate harmony being betwixt each part's proportion, and each proportion's colour; her body fat, white, and smooth ; her countenance cheerful and like to her condition.  The Gentleman's Magazine - Page 5231826Full view - About this book
 | Roxburghe ballads - 1874 - 668 pages
...to her conditions. There is a picture of hers to be seen in London; it is such as she was when she rose out of her bed in the morning, having nothing on but a Rich Mantle cast under her Arm, over which her naked arm did lye. What her fathers name is, or where she was born, is not... | |
 | English poetry - 1876 - 552 pages
...countenance cheerfull and like to her condition. The picture which I have seen of hers was such as she rose out of her bed in the morning, having nothing on but a rich mantle cast under one arme over her shoulder, and sitting on a chaire, on which her naked arm did lie. What her father's... | |
 | Thomas Percy - Ballads, English - 1876 - 630 pages
...countenance cheerfull and like to her condition. The picture which I have seen of hers was such as she rose out of her bed in the morning, having nothing on but a rich mantle cast under one arme over her shoulder, and sitting on a chaire, ou which her naked arm did lie. What her father's... | |
 | Horace Walpole (4th earl of Orford.) - 1879 - 606 pages
...the ' picture which I have seen of her was such as she rose out of her bed in the morning, having 1 nothing on but a rich mantle, cast under one arm and over her shoulder, and sittmg in a ' chair on which one arm did lie.' The picture at Eton is not so large, and seems to have... | |
 | George Walter Thornbury - 1880 - 604 pages
...her countenance cheerful, and like to her condition. The picture I have seen of her was such as she rose out of her bed in the morning, having nothing on but a rich mantle cast under one arme over her shoulder, and sitting on a chair on which her naked arm did lie. Shore, a young man of... | |
 | Allan Cunningham - Artists - 1886 - 360 pages
...countenance cheerful, and like to her condition. The picture which I have seen of her was such as she rose out of her bed in the morning, having nothing...cast under one arm and over her shoulder, and sitting on a chair on which one arm did lie." " Her forehead," adds Walpole, describing her portrait at Eton,... | |
 | Thomas Percy - 1893 - 562 pages
...and like to her condition. The picture "which I have seen of hers was such as she rose out of her 35 "bed in the morning, having nothing on but a rich mantle "cast under one arme over her shoulder, and sitting on a "chaire, on which her naked arm did lie. What her father's... | |
 | Thomas Percy - Ballads, English - 1893 - 566 pages
...and like to her condition. The picture "which I have seen of hers was such as she rose out of her 35 "bed in the morning, having nothing on but a rich mantle "cast under one arme over her shoulder, and sitting on a "chaire, on which her naked arm did lie. What her father's... | |
 | Willy Budig - Great Britain - 1908 - 126 pages
...countenance cheerfull and like to her condition. The picture which I have seen of her s was such as she rose out of her bed in the morning, having nothing on but a rieh mantle cast under one arme over her shoulder, and sitting on a chaire, on which her naked arm... | |
 | Helen Ostovich, Mary V. Silcox, Graham Roebuck - Literary Criticism - 1999 - 340 pages
...downfall rather than a credit to her. The annotation mentions a "picture" Drayton saw of her "as shee rose out of her bed in the morning, having nothing on but a rich Mantle, cast under one arme over her shoulder, and sitting in a chaire, on which her naked arme did lie" (2:258-59). Other... | |
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