... 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
| Anniversary calendar - 1832 - 600 pages
...and pleasant. [D'Ewes observes, that Henrietta Maria had a ' radiant and a sparkling black eye'] ; 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) ; site wore false hair, and... | |
| 1836 - 456 pages
...Elizabeth.— Hertzer tells us that Elizabeth was very majestic at the age of sixty-five; her face oblong, fair, but wrinkled; her eyes small, yet black, and...hooked, her lips narrow, and her teeth black; she wore false hair, and that was red. Sound. — Pepys notes in his Diary, 1 666 : — " Discoursed with... | |
| Musa, Thomas Oliphant (president of the Madrigal society) - Madrigals - 1837 - 520 pages
...Next came the Queen, in the 65th " 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 hooked, her lips narrow, and her teeth " black, a defect the English seem subject to from their " too... | |
| Nathan Drake - English literature - 1838 - 744 pages
...came the queen, in the sixty-fifth year of her age, as we were told, very majestic ; her face oblong, ncubi ascribed by our poet to St. Withold, has been subsequently given to other booked ; her lips narrow, and her teeth black fa defect the English seem subject to, from their too... | |
| John Davenport - 1839 - 520 pages
...sixty-fifth year, as we were told, 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... | |
| Agnes Strickland - 1840 - 600 pages
...came the queen, in the sixty-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... | |
| Early English newspapers - 1840 - 740 pages
...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...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... | |
| Charles Mackay - England, Southern - 1840 - 438 pages
...Next came the Queen," says he, " in the sixty-fifth year of her age, 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... | |
| 1840 - 430 pages
...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 ber teeth black (a defect the English seem subject to, from their too great use of sugar); she had... | |
| 1840 - 504 pages
...sixty-fifth year, as we were told; 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... | |
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