 | Isaac Disraeli - 1881 - 616 Seiten
...saw this unlucky king " in a green hunting-dress, with a feather in his cap, and a horn, instead of a sword, by his side ; how suitable to his age, calling, or person, I leave others to judge froir his pictures:" and this he bitterly calls " leaving him dressed for posterity I" This is the... | |
 | John Dryden - 1882 - 676 Seiten
...inauguration ; which was as green as the grass he trod on, with a feather in his cap, and a horn, instead of a sword, by his side ; how suitable to his age, calling, or complexion, 1 I others to judge from his pictures; he owning a countenance not m tne semblable to any... | |
 | Robert Browning, John Forster - 1892 - 410 Seiten
...inauguration ; which was as green as Ihe grass he Irod on ; with a feather in his cap, and a horn, instead of a sword, by his side. How suitable to his age, calling,...person, I leave others to judge from his pictures." — Trad. Mem. c. xvii. 1 An ominous hint of relative advantage may be quoted from the Journals, vol.... | |
 | Robert Browning - 1892 - 406 Seiten
...inauguration ; which was as green as the grass he trod on ; with a feather in his cap, and a horn, instead of a sword, by his side. How suitable to his age, calling,...person, I leave others to judge from his pictures." — Trad. Mem. c. xvii. 1 An ominous hint of relative advantage may be quoted from the Journals, vol.... | |
 | Ernest Law - 1897 - 458 Seiten
...dressed in a suit "green as the grass he trod on, with a feather in his cap, and a home instead of a sword by his side : how suitable to his age, calling, or person," remarks one of his censors, " I leave to others to judge from his pictures." This we are enabled to... | |
 | Ernest Philip Alphonse Law - 1900 - 480 Seiten
...dressed in a suit "green as the grass he trod on, with a feather in his cap, and a home instead of a sword by his side : how suitable to his age, calling, or person," remarks one of his censors, " I leave to others to judge from his pictures." This we are enabled to... | |
 | Maud Stepney Rawson - 1911 - 440 Seiten
...in ... which was as green as the grass he trod on ; with a feather in his cap, and a horn instead of a sword by his side. How suitable to his age, calling...person I leave others to judge from his pictures." Anne, at the time of her husband's accession, was too seriously ill to bear him company in his swift... | |
 | Henry Charles Shelley - 1913 - 498 Seiten
...inauguration; which was as green as the grass he trod on ; with a feather in his cap, and a horn instead of a sword by his side. How suitable to his age, calling, or person, I leave others to judge. ' ' Yet that green raiment and feather and horn were characteristic of the man. For his first pleasure... | |
 | Blanche C. Hardy - 1913 - 394 Seiten
...wearing garments " as greene as the grasse he trod on, with a feather on his cap, and a home instead of a sword by his side, how suitable to his age, calling, or person I leave to others to judge from pictures." He was at this time thirty-seven. On the day of his accession a... | |
 | Ernest Phillip Alphonse Law, Ernest Law - 1924 - 304 Seiten
...dressed in a suit "green as the grass he trod on, with a feather in his cap, and a home instead of a sword by his side : how suitable to his age, calling, or person," remarks one of his censors, " I leave to others to judge from his pictures." This we are enabled to... | |
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I saw him in the next progress after his inauguration, which was as green as the grass he trod on, with a feather in his cap, and a horn, instead of a sword, by his side ; how suitable to his age, calling, or person, I leave others to judge from his pictures... 
