| Robert Carruthers - Huntingdon (England) - 1824 - 426 pages
...Warwick, a royalist contemporary and a man of veracity. " I came into the House one morning, well clad, and perceived a gentleman speaking whom I knew not,...very ordinarily apparelled ; for it was a plain cloth suit, which seemed to have been made by an ill country tailor; his linen was plain and not very clean,... | |
| Robert Carruthers - 1824 - 424 pages
...Warwick, a royalist contemporary and a man of veracity. " I came into the House one morning, well clad, and perceived a gentleman speaking whom I knew not,...very ordinarily apparelled ; for it was a plain cloth suit, which seemed to have been made by an ill country tailor; his linen was plain and not very clean,... | |
| Anecdotes - 1826 - 368 pages
...courtiers valued ourselves much upon our good clothes). I came into the house one morning, well clad, and perceived a gentleman speaking, whom I knew not,...very ordinarily apparelled; for it was a plain cloth suit, which seemed to have been made by an ill country tailor; his linen was plain, and not very clean... | |
| Reuben Percy - Anecdotes - 1826 - 384 pages
...courtiers valued ourselves much upon our good clothes). I came into the house one morning, well clad, and perceived a gentleman speaking, whom I knew not,...very ordinarily apparelled ; for it was a plain cloth suit, which seemed to have been made by ati ill country tailor ; his linen was plain, and not very... | |
| Michael Russell - 1829 - 338 pages
...courtiers valued ourselves much upon our good clothes. I came one morning into the House well clad, and perceived a gentleman speaking, whom I knew not,...very ordinarily apparelled, for it was a plain cloth suit which seemed to have been made by an ill country tailor : his linen was plain and not very clean,... | |
| Constable and co, ltd - 1829 - 686 pages
...courtiers valued ourselves much upon our good clothes. I came one morning into the House well clad, and perceived a gentleman speaking, whom I knew not,...very ordinarily apparelled, for it was a plain cloth suit which seemed to have been made by an ill country tailor : his linen was plain and not very clean,... | |
| James Robinson Planché - 1834 - 410 pages
...of a good long buff glove for the left hand." clothes. I came one morning into the house well clad, and perceived a gentleman speaking whom I knew not,...very ordinarily apparelled; for it -was a plain cloth suit, which seemed to have been made by an ill country tailor ; his linen was plain, and not very clean... | |
| Edmund Lodge - Great Britain - 1835 - 294 pages
...when I vainly imagined myself a courtly young gentleman. I came one morning into the House, well clad, and perceived a gentleman speaking whom I knew not,...very ordinarily apparelled, for it was a plain cloth suit, which seemed to have been made by an ill country tailor : his linen was plain and not very clean,... | |
| English literature - 1836 - 436 pages
...courtiers valued ourselves much upon our good clothes. I came one morning into the house well clad, and perceived a gentleman speaking, whom I knew not,...very ordinarily apparelled, for it was a plain cloth suit, which seemed to have been made by an ill country tailor ; his linen was plain, and not very clean... | |
| 708 pages
...him, drawn by Sir Philip Warwick at this very time. He says — " I came into the House one morning, and perceived a gentleman speaking, whom I knew not,...very ordinarily apparelled; for it was a plain cloth suit, which seemed to have been made by an ill countrytailor ; his linen was plain, and not very clean;... | |
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