... 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
| H Freer - 1866 - 370 pages
...age, as we are told, very majestic; her face oblong, fair, but wrinkled; her eyes small, yet small 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... | |
| American literature - 1871 - 730 pages
...came the queen in the fifty-sixth year of her age (as we are 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... | |
| Ballads, English - 1873 - 402 pages
...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...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 Morley - 1874 - 440 pages
...Elizabeth " 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 wore false hair,... | |
| 1875 - 592 pages
...red scabbard studded with golden lilies, the point upwards ; next came the queen, her face oblong, fair, but wrinkled ; her eyes small, yet black and...pleasant; her nose a little hooked ; her lips narrow. She had in her ears two very rich pearls with drops ; and her hair was red ; upon her head she had... | |
| Arthur Cayley Headlam - English periodicals - 1890 - 548 pages
...agrees with Hentzer's description of her at the age of sixty-five, as ' very majestic, her face oblong, fair, but wrinkled, her eyes small, yet black and pleasant, her nose a little hooked, her lips thin, and her teeth black.' Formerly, one of the greatest treasures at Hampton Court was the beautiful... | |
| George Walter Thornbury - 1880 - 678 pages
...queen, who was then in her sixty-fifth year, and "very majestic:" "her face," he says, " was 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... | |
| F. H. Hart - Lee (London, England) - 1882 - 116 pages
...the Queen, in the sixty-fifth year of her age," as we are 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... | |
| Aungervyle society - 1881 - 360 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... | |
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