... 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 118by Louise Creighton - 1877 - 270 pagesFull view - About this book
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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,... | |
| 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... | |
| John Britton, Edward Wedlake Brayley, Joseph Nightingale, James Norris Brewer, John Evans, John Hodgson, Francis Charles Laird, Frederic Shoberl, John Bigland, Thomas Rees - Architecture - 1801 - 892 pages
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| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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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