| 1868 - 800 Seiten
...such periods as those he devotes to the description of this new claimant of honour. " His person was as disagreeable as it was possible for a human figure to be without being deformed," be says. " He was very short, disproportioned, thick and clumsily made, with black teeth and a bead... | |
| 1848 - 748 Seiten
...spirits and no discreMais c'est un petit fou qui Et qui pour un bon mot va And ai his lordship, forwent of principle, often sacrificed his character to his...beauty and the most in fashion ; and, if you would have takeu his word for it, not without success ; whilst in fact and in truth, he never gained any one above... | |
| 1848 - 594 Seiten
...Hervey himself, who presents us in another place with the following fullJength portraiture : — ' With a person as disagreeable as it was possible for...affected following many women of the first beauty and most in fashion ; and, if you would take his word for it, not without success: — while, in truth,... | |
| 1848 - 636 Seiten
...euch a description as this by our present author : — With a person as disagreeable as it was posnUe for a human figure to be without being deformed, he...women of the first beauty and the most in fashion. * * • • He was very short, disproportioned, thick, and clumsily made; had a broad, rough- featured,... | |
| 1848 - 594 Seiten
...with the following fulllength portraiture : — ' "With a person as disagreeable as it was pos' sible for a human figure to be without being deformed, he...affected ' following many women of the first beauty and most in fashion ; and, ' if you would take his word for it, not without success : — while, in ' truth,... | |
| John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1848 - 602 Seiten
...by our present author : — " VVilh a person as disagreeable as it was possible fora human figure lo be without being deformed, he affected following many...women of the first beauty and the most in fashion He was very short, disproportioned, thick, and clumsily made; haï! a bioad, rough-featured, ugly face,... | |
| Katherine Thomson - 1860 - 376 Seiten
...Lord Hervey, required to be still longer in advance of a rival. ' With a person,' Hervey writes, ' as disagreeable as it was possible for a human figure...women of the first beauty and the most in fashion. He was very short, disproportioned, thick, and clumsily made ; had a broad, rough-featured, ugly face,... | |
| Sir James Prior - 1860 - 532 Seiten
...of personable or winning exterior. What is the fact as described by his contemporary, Lord Hervey? " With a person as disagreeable as it was possible For...to be without being deformed, he affected following women of the first beauty, and the most in fashion ; and if you would have taken his word for it, not... | |
| Mrs. A. T. Thomson, Philip Wharton - 1861 - 504 Seiten
...Lord Hervey, required to be still longer in advance of a rival. " With a, person," Hervey writes, " as disagreeable as it was possible for a human figure...women of the first beauty and the most in fashion. He was very short, disproportioned, thick, and clumsily made; had a broad, rough-featured, ugly face,... | |
| 1868 - 802 Seiten
...such periods as those he devotes to the description of this new claimant of honour. " His person was as disagreeable as it was possible for a human figure to be without being deformed," he says. " He was very short, disproportioned, thick and clumsily made, with black teeth and a head big... | |
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