 | Horace Walpole - 1926 - 338 strani
...read, and the anthem, besides being unmeasurably tedious, would have served as well for a nuptial. The real serious part was the figure of the Duke of...thousand melancholy circumstances. He had a dark brown adonis,1 and a cloak of black cloth, with a train of five yards. Attending the funeral of a father,... | |
 | Horace Walpole - 1926 - 338 strani
...Duke of Cumberland, heightened by a thousand melancholy circumstances. He had a dark brown adonis,1 and a cloak of black cloth, with a train of five yards. Attending the funeral of a father, how little reason " Or, eel-like flip'd away beyond thy pow'r, " Purfu'ft thou«here th' irrevocable... | |
 | 1818 - 602 strani
...and the anthem, anthem, besides being immeasurably tedious, would have served as well for a nuptial. The real serious part was the figure of the duke of...adonis, and a cloak of black cloth, with a train of live yards. Attending the funeral of a father could not be pleasant: his leg extremely bad, yet forced... | |
 | Eneas Sweetland Dallas - 1870 - 788 strani
...the bishop read sadly and blundered in the prayers." And so forth. And now for the dead king's son. " The real serious part was the figure of the Duke of...melancholy circumstances. He had a dark brown adonis (sic), and a cloak of black cloth, with a train of five yards. His leg extremely bad, yet forced to... | |
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Attending the funeral of a father could not be pleasant: his leg extremely bad, yet forced to stand upon it near two hours; his face bloated and distorted with his late paralytic stroke, which has affected, too, one of his eyes, and placed... 
