| James Boswell - Hebrides (Scotland) - 1786 - 552 pages
...of George III, writes: — ' One there was . . . the noblest figure I ever saw, the high-constable of Scotland, Lord Errol ; as one saw him in a space capable of containing him, one admired him. At the wedding, dressed in tissue, he looked like one of the Giants in Guildhall, new gilt. It added... | |
| Horace Walpole - 1820 - 526 pages
...noticed. One there was, though of another species, the noblest figure I ever saw, the high-constable of Scotland, lord Errol; as one saw him in a space capable of containing him, one admired him. At the wedding, dressed in tissue, he looked like one of the giants in Guildhall, new gilt. It added... | |
| Horace Walpole (4th earl of Orford.) - 1840 - 548 pages
...noticed. One there was, though of another species, the noblest figure I ever saw, the highconstable of Scotland, Lord Errol ; as one saw him in a space capable of containing him, one admired him. At the wedding, dressed in tissue, he looked like one of the giants in Guildhall, new gilt It added... | |
| Horace Walpole - 1840 - 540 pages
...noticed. One there was, though of another species, the noblest figure I ever saw, the highconstable of Scotland, Lord Errol ; as one saw him in a space capable of containing him, one admired him. At the wedding, dressed in tissue, he looked like one of the giants in Guildhall, new gilt It added... | |
| John Heneage Jesse - London (England) - 1847 - 478 pages
...the Dukes of Richmond and Marlborough to make them noticed. One there was, though of another species, the noblest figure I ever saw, the high constable...space capable of containing him, one admired him. At the wedding, dressed in tissue, he looked like one of the giants in Guildhall new gilt. It added... | |
| Questions and answers - 1887 - 678 pages
...Constable of Scotland at the coronation, and is mentioned by Horace Walpole, in his account of it, "as the noblest figure I ever saw, the High Constable of Scotland, Lord Errol." In Westminster Hal], where the banquet took place, fifteen years before, his father, the Earl of Kilmarnock,... | |
| Dr. Doran (John) - Queens - 1855 - 446 pages
...the Dukes of Richmond and Marlborough to make them noticed. One there was, though of another species, the noblest figure I ever saw, the high constable...space capable of containing him, one admired him. At the wedding, dressed in tissue, he looked like one of the giants at Guildhall, new gilt. It added... | |
| Dr. Doran (John) - Queens - 1855 - 450 pages
...the Dukes of Richmond and Marlborough to make them noticed. One there was, though of another species, the noblest figure I ever saw, the high constable...in a space capable of containing him, one admired Kim. At the wedding, dressed in tissue, he looked like one of the giants at Guildhall, new gilt. It... | |
| Dr. Doran (John) - 1857 - 390 pages
...the Dukes of Richmond and Marlborough to make them noticed. One there was, though of another species, the noblest figure I ever saw, the high constable...space capable of containing him, one admired him. At the wedding, dressed in tissue, he looked like one of the giants at Guildhall, new gilt. It added... | |
| Edmund Lodge - Baronetage - 1859 - 914 pages
...accomplishments of his mind as well as of his person. Horace Walpole, in adverting to the Coronation of GEOBGE III., makes the following remarkable observation concerning...figure I ever saw, the High Constable of Scotland, Lord Erroll ; as one saw him in i space capable of containing him, one admired him ; and it added to the... | |
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