 | John Struthers - 1828 - 660 pągines
...of the buttons of his waistcoat, were prodigiously illustrated with large brilliants — in short, he glittered all over like the star which they tell you appeared at his nativity ! ! He supped with the king, queen, and royal family ; and all who attended him were magnificently... | |
 | John Struthers - 1828 - 676 pągines
...of the buttons of his waistcoat, were prodigiously illustrated with large brilliants — in short, he glittered all over like the star which they tell you appeared at his nativity ! ! He supped with the king, queen, and royal family ; and all who attended him were magnificently... | |
 | James Browne - 1838 - 538 pągines
...waistcoat, were illustrated with large diamonds. " In fine," observes an enthusiastic eye-witness, " he glittered all over like the star which they tell you appeared at his nativity." Louis received Charles with great kindness, and, embracing him, said, " Mon tres chere Prince, je rend... | |
 | Mrs. A. T. Thomson, Byerley Thomson - 1845 - 434 pągines
...George on his breast were adorned with the same jewels : " he glittered," as an eye-witness observed, " all over like the star which they tell you appeared at his nativity." But all this display, and the feigned kindness of his reception, were but the prelude to a heartless... | |
 | Alexander Charles Ewald - 1875 - 380 pągines
...toutts les grandes qualitds des htros et des philosophes se trouvent reunies en vous; et j'espere. qu'un de ces jours vous recevrez la recompense d'un...Glenbucket and Kelly, secretaries to the Regency. HIS RECEPTION AT VERSAILLES. 139 In the second sat the Prince himself, with Lord Lewis Gordon and old... | |
 | Andrew Lang - 1897 - 438 pągines
...but have so greatly altered as to require a new delineation at different periods.'1 Now he ' glitters all over like the star which they tell you appeared at his nativity,' and which still shines beside him, Micat inter omnes, on a medal struck in his boyhood. 2 Anon he is... | |
 | Andrew Lang - 1897 - 398 pągines
...have so greatly altered as to require a new delineation at different periods.' ' Now he ' glitters all over like the star which they tell you appeared at his nativity,' and which still shines beside him, Micat inter omnes, on a medal struck in his boyhood.2 Anon he is... | |
 | Charles Sanford Terry - 1903 - 274 pągines
...one of the buttons of his waistcoat, were prodigiously illustrated with large brilliants ; in short, he glittered all over like the star which they tell you appeared at his nativity." The public visit to Versailles heartened the Jacobites considerably. " The Pretender's people and partisans... | |
 | Andrew Lang - 1903 - 516 pągines
...who wore rosecoloured velvet, lined with silver, diamonds in his hat and shoes, and all his orders. ' He glittered all over like the star which, they tell you, appeared at his nativity.' All this may be true, for Mann heard the news in Florence ; moreover we have the bill for the hire... | |
 | David Wemyss - 1907 - 522 pągines
...The Forty-Five, the party with Glenbucket, Ogilvie, and Kelly : the Young Chevalier is said ' to have glittered all over like the star which they tell you appeared at his Nativity' ; but he must have glittered unseen by Elcho. Elcho was never in the company of Charles after the day... | |
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The cockade in his hat, and the buckles of his shoes were diamonds. The George which he wore at his bosom, and the order of St. Andrew, which he wore also, tied by a piece of green ribbon to one of the buttons of his waistcoat, were prodigiously illustrated... 
