 Do you know, I had the curiosity to go to the burying t'other night; I had never seen a royal funeral; nay, I walked as a rag of quality, which I found would be, and so it was, the easiest way of seeing it. It is absolutely a noble sight. The Prince's...  Correspondence of William Pitt - Page 59by William Pitt (Earl of Chatham) - 1838Full view - About this book
 | England - 1818 - 762 pages
...walked as a rag of quality, which I fourid would be, and so it was, the easiest way of seeing it. It is absolutely a noble sight. The prince's chamber, hung...silver on high stands, had a very good effect. The ambassador from Tripoli and his son were carried to see that chamber. The procession, through a line... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1818 - 600 pages
...walked as a rag of quality, which I found would be, and so it was, the easiest way of seeing it. It is absolutely a noble sight. The prince's chamber, hung...silver on high stands, had a very good effect. The ambassador from Tripoli and his son were carried to see that chamber. The procession, through a line... | |
 | 1818 - 598 pages
...walked as a rag of quality, which I found would be, and so it was, the easiest way of seeing it. It is absolutely a noble sight. The prince's chamber, hung...silver on high stands, had a very good effect. The ambassador from Tripoli and his son were carried to see that chamber. The procession, through a line... | |
 | 1818 - 806 pages
...would be, and so it was, the easiest way of seeing it. It is absolutely a noble sight. The prince'* chamber, hung with purple, and a quantity of silver...silver on high stands, had a very good effect. The ambassador from Tripoli and his son were carried to see that chamber. The procession, through a line... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1818 - 622 pages
...walked as a rag of quality, which I found would be, and so it was, the easiest way of seeing it. It is absolutely a noble sight. The prince's chamber, hung...quantity of silver lamps, the coffin under a canopy of purplevelvet, and six vast chandeliers of silver on high stands, had a very good effect. The ambassador... | |
 | 1819 - 630 pages
...walked as a rag of quality, which I found would be, and so it was, the easiest way of seeing it. It is absolutely a noble sight. The prince's chamber, hung...silver on high stands, had a very good effect. The ambassador from Tripoli and his son were carried to see that chamber. The procession, through a line... | |
 | Horace Walpole - 1820 - 526 pages
...walked as a rag of quality, which I found would be, and so it was, the easiest way of seeing it. It is absolutely a noble sight. The prince's chamber, hung...silver on high stands, had a very good effect. The ambassador from Tripoli and his son were carried to see that chamber. The procession, through a line... | |
 | Robert Huish - Great Britain - 1821 - 746 pages
...walked as a rag of quality, which I found would be, and so it was, the easiest way of seeing it. It is absolutely a noble sight. The prince's chamber, hung...silver on high stands, had a very good effect. The ambassador from Tripoli and his son were carried to see that chamber. The procession, through a line... | |
 | New elegant extracts, Richard Alfred Davenport - English literature - 1827 - 404 pages
...walked as a rag of quality, which I found would be, and so it was, the easiest way of seeing it. It is absolutely a noble sight. The prince's chamber, hung...silver on high stands, had a very good effect. The ambassador from Tripoli and his son were carried to see that chamber. The procession through a line... | |
 | New elegant extracts, Richard Alfred Davenport - English literature - 1827 - 402 pages
...walked as a rag of quality, which I found would be, and so it was, the easiest way of seeing it. It is absolutely a noble sight. The prince's chamber, hung...silver on high stands, had a very good effect. The ambassador from Tripoli and his son were carried to see that chamber. The procession through a line... | |
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