 | Frederick Maynard Bridge - 1922 - 420 trang
...hand and mopping his eyes with the other. Then returned the fear of catching cold ; and the Duke s of Cumberland, who was sinking with heat, felt himself...round, found it was the Duke of Newcastle standing on his train to avoid the chill of the marble." " Be a King, George," had always been Princess Augusta's... | |
 | 1924 - 848 trang
...there, spying with one hand, and mopping his eyes with t'other. Then returned the fear of catching cold, and the Duke of Cumberland, who was sinking...upon his train to avoid the chill of the marble." Such scenes, with or without conspicuous historical figures, are scattered every where through Walpole's... | |
 | Gamaliel Bradford - 1924 - 376 trang
...there, spying with one hand, and mopping his eyes with t'other. Then returned the fear of catching cold, and the Duke of Cumberland, who was sinking...upon his train to avoid the chill of the marble." 7 Such scenes, with or without conspicuous historical figures, are scattered everywhere through Walpole's... | |
 | Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch - 1925 - 1124 trang
...there, spying with one hand, and mopping his eyes with t'other. Then returned the fear of catching cold, and the Duke of Cumberland, who was sinking...very theatric to look down into the vault, where the coffin lay, attended by mourners with lights. Clavering, the Groom of the Bedchamber, refused to sit... | |
 | Horace Walpole - 1926 - 338 trang
...there, spying with one hand, and mopping his eyes with t'other. Then returned the fear of catching cold, and the Duke of Cumberland, who was sinking...very theatric to look down into the vault, where the coffin lay, attended by mourners with lights. Clavering, the Groom of the Bedchamber, refused to sit... | |
 | Arthur Stanley Turberville - 1926 - 602 trang
...there, spying with one hand and mopping his eyes with the other. Then returned the fear of catching cold : and the Duke of Cumberland, who was sinking...upon his train, to avoid the chill of the marble.' He was the most querulous of mortals, always believing himself to be badly and ungratefully treated.... | |
 | H. Cotton Minchin, Humphrey Cotton Minchin - 1926 - 320 trang
...there, spying with one hand and mopping his eyes with the other. Then returned the fear of catching cold ; and the Duke of Cumberland, who was sinking...standing upon his train to avoid the chill of the marble. Walpole, indeed, broke through his habit of public decorum in his persecution of the Duke ; and he... | |
 | 1906 - 872 trang
...there, spying with one hand and mopping his eyes with t' other. Then returned the fear of catching cold, and the Duke of Cumberland, who was sinking with heat, felt himself weighed down, and found it was the Duke of Newcastle, standing upon his train to avoid the chill of the marble." Walpole's... | |
 | 1906 - 938 trang
...there, spying with one hand and mopping his eyes with t* other. Then returned the fear of catching cold, and the Duke of Cumberland, who was sinking with heat, felt himself weighed down, and found it was the Duke of Newcastle, standing upon his train to avoid the chill of the marble." Walpole's... | |
 | Sir John Collings Squire - 1920 - 806 trang
...there, spying with one hand and mopping his eyes with the other. Then returned the fear of catching cold ; and the Duke of Cumberland, who was sinking...standing upon his train to avoid the chill of the marble. ^ He offered up a Prime Minister daily as a sacrifice at Sir Robert's tomb. At the same time, his aversions... | |
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... smelling-bottle : but in two minutes his curiosity got the better of his hypocrisy, and he ran about the chapel with his glass, to spy who was or was not there, spying with one hand, and mopping his eyes with the other. Then returned the fear of catching... 
