Caroline much embarrassed on my first being presented to her — pretty face — not expressive of softness — her figure not graceful — fine eyes — good hand — tolerable teeth, but going — fair hair and light eyebrows, good bust — short, with... Douglas Jerrold's Shilling Magazine - Page 1741845Full view - About this book
| Sir Spencer Walpole - Great Britain - 1878 - 680 pages
...Thackeray's Four Gcvryes, p. 175. year of her age, had, in the eyes of a partial courtier, a CHAP. ' pretty face, not expressive of softness ; her figure...eyebrows ; good bust ; short, with what the French call les epaules impertinentes.' 1 The Duke of Clarence had seen the young lady, had admired her, and had... | |
| Sir Spencer Walpole - Great Britain - 1878 - 704 pages
...eyes of a partial courtier, a CHAP. ' pretty face, not expressive of softness ; her figure not r^— graceful ; fine eyes, good hand, tolerable teeth,...eyebrows ; good bust ; short, with what the French call les epaules impertinentes.' l The Duke of Clarence had seen the young lady, had admired her, and had... | |
| sir Spencer Walpole - Great Britain - 1879 - 786 pages
...211. 1 Thackeray's Four Oeorget, p. 176. year of her age, had, in the eyes of a partial courtier, a ' pretty face, not expressive of softness ; her figure...eyebrows ; good bust ; short, with what the French call les epaules impertinentes.' l The Duke of Clarence had seen the young lady, had admired her, and had... | |
| James Hogg, Florence Marryat - English literature - 1882 - 780 pages
...November, when he was invited to dine with the Duchess of Brunswick ; and he thus records his impressions : 'The Princess Caroline (Princess of Wales) much embarrassed...good bust — short, with what the French call des l'paules impertinentes. Vastly happy with her future expectations. The Duchess, full of nothing else,... | |
| Joseph Fitzgerald Molloy - Great Britain - 1883 - 672 pages
...; her face, he said, was pretty, but not expressive of softness ; she had fine eyes, he admitted, ' tolerable teeth, but going, fair hair and light eyebrows, good bust, short, with what the French call des pectations.' Mrs. Harcourt, when she arrived at the Brunswick Court to accompany the princess to England,... | |
| Joseph Fitzgerald Molloy - Great Britain - 1883 - 432 pages
...; her face, he said, was pretty, but not expressive of softness ; she had fine eyes, he admitted, ' tolerable teeth, but going, fair hair and light eyebrows, good bust, short, with what the French call des pectations.' Mrs. Harcourt, when she arrived at the Brunswick Court to accompany the princess to England,... | |
| Barbara Clay Finch - Princes - 1883 - 360 pages
...face—not expressive of softness; her figure not graceful; fine eyes ; good hair; tolerableteeth, but going; fair hair and light eyebrows; good bust;...what the French call ' des epaules impertinentes.'"* Her eyes were her strong point. " They are described as being quick, penetrating, and glancing; they... | |
| Joseph Fitzgerald Molloy - Great Britain - 1883 - 384 pages
...; her face, he said, was pretty, but not expressive of softness ; she had fine eyes, he admitted, ' tolerable teeth, but going, fair hair and light eyebrows, good bust, short, with what the French call des pectations.' Mrs. Harcourt, when she arrived at the Brunswick Court to accompany the princess to England,... | |
| Joseph Fitzgerald Molloy - Great Britain - 1883 - 382 pages
...; her face, he said, was pretty, but not expressive of softness ; she had fine eyes, he admitted, ' tolerable teeth, but going, fair hair and light eyebrows, good bust, short, with what the French call des pectations.' Mrs. Harcourt, when she arrived at the Brunswick Court to accompany the princess to England,... | |
| John Heneage Jesse - Great Britain - 1901 - 520 pages
...then in the twenty-seventh year of her age. "The Princess Caroline," he writes, " much embarrassed at my first being presented to her ; pretty face ; not...eyebrows ; good bust ; short, with what the French call Us fyaulcs impertinentes ; vastly happy with her future expectations." Whatever may have been the causes... | |
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