 | Lucy Aikin - 1818 - 544 pàgines
...and seemed to • Strype's Annals. ANECDOTE. 391 touch on the vanity of decking the body too finely. Her majesty told the ladies, that if the bishop held...without a staff, and leave his mantle behind him. Perchance the bishop hath never sought her highness' wardrobe, or he would have chosen another Nugz... | |
 | Lucy Aikin - 1823 - 548 pàgines
...preached to the queen's majesty, and seemed to touch on the vanity of decking the body too finely. Her majesty told the ladies, that if the bishop held...discourse on such matters, she would fit him for heaven j but he should walk thither ' Strype's Annuls, without a staff, and leave his mantle behind him. Perchance... | |
 | Lucy Aikin - 1826 - 542 pàgines
...preached to the queen's majesty, and seemed to touch on the vanity of decking the body too finely. Her majesty told the ladies, that if the bishop held...would fit him for heaven ; but he should walk thither ' Strype's Annals. 392 without a staff, and leave his mantle behind him. Perchance the bishop hath... | |
 | Henry Hallam - 1827 - 538 pàgines
...vehemently against female vanity in dress, which came home to the queen's conscience, she told her ladies, that if the bishop held more discourse on...without a staff, and leave his mantle behind him. Harrington's State of the Church, in Nuga3 Antiquse, i. i7o; see too p. ai7. It will of course not... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1836 - 434 pàgines
...preached to the Queen's Majesty ; and seemed to touch on the vanity of decking the body too finely. Her Majesty told the ladies, that if the bishop held...without a staff, and leave his mantle behind him." — Nugcc Antigua.] [" Throughout the whole of her reign,*' says Sir Walter Scott, elsewhere, " Queen... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1836 - 442 pàgines
...Majesty ; and seemed to touch on the vanity of decking the body too finely. Her Majesty told the ladles, that if the bishop held more discourse on such matters,...without a staff, and leave his mantle behind him."— .A^fE Antiqucc.] [" Throughout the whole of her reign,'' says Sir Walter Scott, elsewhere, " Queen... | |
 | 1836 - 590 pàgines
...displayed by many persons in their apparel, she told her attendants, that if he ' held more discourses on such matters, she would fit him for heaven, but...without a staff, and leave his mantle behind him' *. Such was the personal character of the queen, of whom the Church of England boasts as her restorer... | |
 | William Jones - 1838 - 696 pàgines
...reflected on the vanity displayed by many persons in their apparel, she told her attendants that if he " held more discourse on such matters, she would fit...without a staff, and leave his mantle behind him."• Such was the personal character of the queen, of whom the church of England boasts as her restorer... | |
 | 1840 - 516 pàgines
...preached to the queen's majesty, and seemed to touch on the vanity of decking the body too finely. Her majesty told the ladies, that ' if the .bishop...without a staff, and leave his mantle behind him.' Perchance, the bishop hath never sought her highness's wardrobe, or he would have chosen another text."... | |
 | Elizabeth Stone, Mary Margaret Stanley Egerton Countess of Wilton - 1841 - 424 pàgines
...whom, or at least before whom (and the Queen was not slow in appropriating and resenting the hint*), Latimer, Bishop of London, thought it necessary to...and furbelows. But clothes were not formerly kept in drawers, where but few can be laid with due regard to the safety of each, but were hung up on wooden... | |
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Sunday (April last)," pursues our courtly gossip, " my lord of London preached to the queen's majesty, and seemed to touch on the vanity of decking the body too finely. Her majesty told the ladies, ' That if the bishop held more discourse on such matters,... 
