| sir James Edward Smith - 1807 - 462 pages
...cardinal, or as governor of Rome, I am not certain. Here the " exiled majesty of England" might be seen every afternoon, lolling in his coach, the very image of a drunken Silenus, more asleep than awake, and apparently tottering on the brink of that grave to which he is since gone. The... | |
| Thomas Roscoe - Gift books - 1830 - 398 pages
...cardinal, or as governor of Rome, I am not 'certain. Here the ' exiled majesty of England' might be seen every afternoon, lolling in his coach, the very image of a drunken Silenus, more asleep than awake, and apparently tottering on the brink of that grave to which he is since gone. The... | |
| Europe - 1830 - 400 pages
...cardinal, or as governor of Rome, I am not certain. Here the ' exiled majesty of England' might be seen every afternoon, lolling in his coach, the very image of a drunken Silenns, more asleep than awake, and apparently tottering on the brink of that grave to which he is... | |
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