| George Anne Bellamy - 1785 - 286 pages
...gentlewoman, the miftake was but momentary. At length I ftepped out of the coach. The longexpefcled phenomenon now made her appearance. But Oh, how different...countenance tinged with the jaundice, and in every refpefl the reverfe of a perfon who could make the leaft pretenfions to beauty. Such was I, when 1... | |
| George Anne Bellamy - 1786 - 244 pages
...which diftinguilhes th« gentlewoman, the miftake was but momentary. At length I ftepped out of tUe coach. The long-expefted phenomenon now made her appearance....fatigue, her countenance tinged with the jaundice, and ini every refpcft the reverfe of a perfon who could make the leaft pretenfions to beauty. Such was... | |
| George Anne Bellamy - 1786 - 240 pages
...gentlewoman, the miftake was but momentary. At length I flepped out of the coach. The long-expecte<l phenomenon now made her appearance. But Oh, how different...countenance tinged with the jaundice, and in every refpeft the reverfe of a perfon who could make the leaft pretenfions to beauty. Such was I, when I... | |
| Percy Hetherington Fitzgerald - 1874 - 362 pages
...appearance. But oh, how different a figure from what their imagination had depictured ! Fashion to yourself the idea of a little dirty creature bent nearly double,...enfeebled by fatigue, her countenance tinged with jaundice, and in every respect the reverse of a person who could make the least pretensions to beauty.... | |
| Henry Barton Baker - 1878 - 434 pages
...alas ! though only nine-and-twenty, the once enchanting loveliness was faded, and the crowd saw only " a little dirty creature, bent nearly double, enfeebled by fatigue, her countenance tinged with jaundice, and in every respect the reverse of a person who could make the least pretension to beauty."... | |
| 1878 - 234 pages
...alas! although only nine-and-twenty, the once enchanting loveliness was faded, and the crowd saw only " a little dirty creature, bent nearly double, enfeebled by fatigue, her countenance tinged with jaundice, and in every respect the reverse of a person who could make the least pretension to beauty."... | |
| 1878 - 244 pages
...alas! although only nine-and-twenty, the once enchanting loveliness was faded, and the crowd saw only " a little dirty creature, bent nearly double, enfeebled by fatigue, her countenance tinged with jaundice, and in every respect the reverse of a person who could make the least pretension to beauty."... | |
| 1885 - 492 pages
...debt. She describes herself on her reappearance in Dublin, when still little more than thirty, ae ' a little dirty creature bent nearly double, enfeebled by fatigue, her countenance tinged with jaundice, and in every respect the reverse of a person who could make the least pretension to beauty.'... | |
| Charles Edgar Lewis Wingate - 1895 - 486 pages
...large, hollow, and ghastly." Yet Bellamy was then but twenty-nine years of age. Alas ! the picture : " A little dirty creature, bent nearly double, enfeebled by fatigue, her countenance tinged with jaundice, and in every respect the reverse of a person who could make the least pretension to beauty"... | |
| Joseph Fitzgerald Molloy - 1897 - 276 pages
...appearance. But oh, how different a figure from what their imagination had depictured. Fashion to yourself the idea of a little dirty creature, bent nearly double,...countenance tinged with the jaundice, and in every respect the reverse of a person who could make the least pretensions to beauty. Such was I when I presented... | |
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