 The person of the King is as perfect in my memory as if I saw him but yesterday. It was that of an elderly man, rather pale, and exactly like his pictures and coins ; not tall, of an aspect rather good than august, with a dark tie-wig, a plain coat, waistcoat,...  A History of the Four Georges - Page 78by Justin McCarthy, Justin Huntly McCarthy - 1884Full view - About this book
 | John Wood Warter - 1889 - 396 pages
...led me back to my mother ! ' The person of the king is as perfect in my memory as if I saw him but yesterday. It was that of an elderly man, rather pale,...stockings of the same colour, and a blue riband over all.' Such was the monarch who now ascended the English throne, taken from a sketch thirteen years later,... | |
 | Austin Dobson - 1890 - 544 pages
...conductress led me back to my mother. The person of the King is as perfect in my memory as if I saw him but yesterday. It was that of an elderly man, rather pale,...cloth, with stockings of the same colour, and a blue ribband over all. So entirely was he my object that I do not believe I once looked at the Duchess ;... | |
 | Edgar Sheppard - 1894 - 534 pages
...conductress led me back to my mother. The person of the King is as perfect in my memory as if I saw him but yesterday. It was that of an elderly man, rather pale,...of an aspect rather good than august, with a dark tie wig, a plain coat, waistcoat and breeches of snuff-coloured cloth, with stockings of the same colour,... | |
 | Edgar Sheppard - 1894 - 532 pages
...like his pictures and coins ; not tall ; of an aspect rather good than august, with a dark tie wig, a plain coat, waistcoat and breeches of snuff-coloured...cloth, with stockings of the same colour, and a blue ribbon over all. So entirely was he my object, that I do not believe I once looked at the Duchess ;... | |
 | 1896 - 606 pages
...fulfilled by being taken, at ten, to St. James's to see George I. — ' an elderly man, rather pale, not tall, of an ' aspect rather good than august, with a dark tie wig, a ' plain coat, waistcoat and breeches of snuff-coloured cloth, ' with stockings of the same... | |
 | John Heneage Jesse - 1901 - 426 pages
...conductress led me back to my mother. "The person of the king is as perfect in my memory as if I saw him but yesterday. It was that of an elderly man, rather pale,...stockings of the same colour, and a blue riband over all. So entirely was he my object, that I do not believe I once looked at the duchess; but as I could not... | |
 | John Heneage Jesse - 1901 - 436 pages
...conductress led me back to my mother. "The person of the king is as perfect in my memory as if I saw him but yesterday. It was that of an elderly man, rather pale,...stockings of the same colour, and a blue riband over all. So entirely was he my object, that I do not believe I once looked at the duchess ; but as I could not... | |
 | John Heneage Jesse - 1901 - 410 pages
...distinctly visible to him as if he had seen it but yesterday. " It was that of an elderly man," he said, " rather pale, and exactly like his pictures and coins ; not tall ; of aspect rather good than august ; with a dark tie-wig, a plain coat, waistcoat, and breeches of snuff-coloured... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1907 - 566 pages
...conductress led me back to my mother. The person of the King is as perfect in my memory as if I saw him but yesterday. It was that of an elderly man, rather pale, and exactly like his pictures and coins, not tali, of an aspect rather good than august, with a dark tie-wig, a plain coat, waistcoat, and breeches,... | |
 | Marjory Hollings - 1911 - 466 pages
...1 Diary of Lady Cowper, ed. 1865, p. 151-152. RP T impression of the appearance of the old king : " It was that of an elderly man, rather pale, and exactly...cloth, with stockings of the same colour, and a blue ribbon over all." 1 George I. died in Hanover, and the day after the news arrived, his son George II.... | |
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