 | John Britton, Edward Wedlake Brayley, Joseph Nightingale, James Norris Brewer, John Evans, John Hodgson, Francis Charles Laird, Frederic Shoberl, John Bigland, Thomas Rees - Anglesey (Wales) - 1801 - 512 pages
...sandy colour; her complexion rather fair. " A pale Roman nose," says Horace Walpole, " a head of hair loaded with crowns, and powdered with diamonds, a...and a bushel of pearls, are the features by which every body knows at once the pictures of Queen Elizabeth." This description is truly applicable to... | |
 | John Britton, Edward Wedlake Brayley, Joseph Nightingale, James Norris Brewer, John Evans, John Hodgson, Francis Charles Laird, Frederic Shoberl, John Bigland, Thomas Rees - Architecture - 1801 - 496 pages
...her complexion rather fair. " A pale Roman nose," says Horace Walpole, " a head of hair loaded wit/i crowns, and powdered with diamonds, a vast ruff, a...and a bushel of pearls, are the features by which every body knows at once the pictures of Queen Elizabeth." This description is truly applicable to... | |
 | James Pettit Andrews - 1806 - 394 pages
...iniugineiii, in tabula •exprimeret.' [MEMORIALS. [29] ' A pale Roman nose, a head of hair loaded with pearls and powdered with diamonds, a vast ruff, a vaster...and a bushel of pearls, are the features' by which we recognise Elizabeth. There exists a family piece in which Henry VIII., Edward, Mary and Philip,... | |
 | Thomas Blore - Antiques - 1815 - 320 pages
...to copy an Indian idol, totally composed of hands and necklaces. A pale Roman nose, a head of hair loaded with crowns and powdered with diamonds, a vast...and a bushel of pearls, are the features by which every body knows at once the pictures of Queen Elizabeth." Gerards came to England not long after the... | |
 | James Norris Brewer - 1801 - 1208 pages
...sandy color; her complexion rather fair. "A pale Roman nose," says Horace Walpole, " a head of hair loaded with crowns, and powdered with diamonds, a...and a bushel of pearls, are the features by which every body knows at once the pictures of Queen Elizabeth." This description is truly applicable to... | |
 | Allan Cunningham - Architects - 1830 - 402 pages
...employed to copy an Indian idol totally composed of hands and necklaces. A pale Roman nose, a head of hair loaded with crowns and powdered with diamonds, a vast...fardingale, and a bushel of pearls, are the features by wViich every body knows at once the pictures of Queen Elizabeth." Lucas de Heere, a native of Ghent,... | |
 | Allan Cunningham - 1832 - 324 pages
...necklaces. A pale Roman nose, a head of hair loaded with crowns and powdered with diamonds, B vast ruflf, a vaster fardingale, and a bushel of pearls, are the features by which every body knows at once the pictures of Queen Elizabeth." Elizabeth was determined to know every thing1,... | |
 | Allan Cunningham - Painters - 1832 - 324 pages
...employed to copy an Indian idol totally composed Of hands and necklaces. A pale Roman nose, a head Of hair loaded with crowns and powdered with diamonds, a vast...and a bushel of pearls, are the features by -which every body knows at once the pictures of Queen Elizabeth." Elizabeth was determined to know every thing,... | |
 | English periodicals - 1832 - 524 pages
...whenever a stranger lands upon the island ! "A pale Roman nose," observe* Horace Walpole, " a head of hair loaded with crowns and powdered with diamonds, a vast...and a bushel of pearls, are the features by which every one at once knows the pictures of Queen Elizabeth." A few instances of her taste and 1m hits... | |
 | English periodicals - 1832 - 526 pages
...stranger lands upon the island - • "A pale Roman nose," observes Horace Walpole, " a head of hair loaded with crowns and powdered with diamonds, a vast ruff, a vaster fardmgale, and a bushel of pearls, are the features by which every one at once knows the pictures of... | |
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... fondness for dress, while they entirely exclude all grace, and leave no more room for a painter's genius than if he had been employed to copy an Indian idol totally composed Of hands and necklaces. A pale Roman nose... 
