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" ... 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... "
Life of Sir Walter Ralegh - Page 118
by Louise Creighton - 1877 - 270 pages
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The Annual Register, Or, A View of the History, Politics, and Literature for ...

History - 1795 - 532 pages
...we are told, very majestic ; her face oblong, fair, but wrinkled .j her eyes small, yet black ar.d pleasant ; her nose a little hooked ; her lips narrow, and her teeth black (a, defeft the English seem subjecl to, from their too great use of sugar) ; she had jn her ears two...
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A New History of Great Britain: From the Invasion of Julius Caesar to the ...

John Adams - Great Britain - 1803 - 486 pages
...ladies and gentlemen. " When I faw queen Elizabeth," fays Hentzner, " (he was in her 67th year, and had in her ears two pearls with very rich drops. She wore falfe reel hairr and her bofom was uncovered. She was dreffed in white filk, bordered with pearls of...
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London; Being an Accurate History and Description of the British ..., Volume 4

David Hughson - London (England) - 1807 - 696 pages
...her age, as we were told, very majestic; her face oblong, fair, but wrinkled ; her eyes small, yef 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...
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A Journey Into England: In the Year M.D.XC.VIII.

Paul Hentzner - Great Britain - 1807 - 86 pages
...came the Queen, in the sixty-fifth year of her age, as we were t--lil, very majestic; her face oblong, fair, but wrinkled; her eyes small, yet black and pleasant; her nose a little hocked; ier lips jiairow, and her teeth black; (a defect the English seem subject to, from thi ir too...
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The Beauties of England and Wales, Or, Delineations, Topographical ..., Volume 7

John Britton - Architecture - 1808 - 896 pages
...the Queen, in the sixty-firth year of her age, as we were told, very majestic; her face oblong, (air, but wrinkled; her eyes small, yet black, and pleasant;...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,...
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The Beauties of England and Wales: Or, Delineations ..., Volume 7, Part 1

John Britton - Architecture - 1808 - 882 pages
...came the Queen, in the sixlv-tifth 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 houked ; her lips narrow, and her teeth black, (a defect the English seem subject to from their too...
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Shakespeare and His Times: Including the Biography of the Poet ..., Volume 2

Nathan Drake - Dramatists, English - 1817 - 708 pages
...told, very majestic ; her face oblong, fair, but wrinkled ; her eyes small, yet black and pleasant j 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...
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The Retrospective Review.., Volume 1

Henry Southern - 1820 - 402 pages
...the Queen, in the fifty-sixth year of her age, (as we were told,) very majestic ; her face oblong, fair, but wrinkled ; her eyes small, yet black and...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...
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The Chronicle of the Kings of England: From William the Norman to the Death ...

Robert Dodsley, Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield - Great Britain - 1821 - 304 pages
...Oxforde at Brode-gate to get in." When Paul Hentzner saw Elizabeth, then in her 67th year, she bad, in her ears, two pearls with very rich drops. She wore false hair, and that reel ; her bosom wa$ uncovered, " as all the English ladies," says Hentzner, " have till they marry."...
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