 | Frederic Harrison - Great Britain - 1898 - 248 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... | |
 | Charles Bradlaugh - 1899 - 256 pages
...for Romney and Radnor, but who preferred the latter borough : " 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-country tailor ; his linen was plain, and not very clean,... | |
 | Thomas Stanford Baldock - Great Britain - 1899 - 586 pages
...oft-quoted sketch of him on this occasion. He says : — " 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... | |
 | Timothy Dwight - 1899 - 542 pages
...gives us our first glimpse of his actual appearance. " 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... | |
 | Charles Harding Firth - Great Britain - 1900 - 590 pages
...courtiers valued ourselves much on 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,... | |
 | Leslie Cope Cornford - English language - 1900 - 256 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... | |
 | John Heneage Jesse - Great Britain - 1901 - 374 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... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1901 - 420 pages
...ourselves much upon our good clothes ! I came into the House one morning," Monday 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... | |
 | Samuel Rawson Gardiner - Great Britain - 1901 - 380 pages
...from a young courtier. " I came into the House," wrote Sir Philip Warwick, " 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 be made by an ill country tailor ; his linen was plain, and not very clean ; and... | |
 | Mrs. F. S. Boas - Great Britain - 1905 - 378 pages
...the time, Sir Philip Warwick gives this description : " 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 countrytailor ; his linen was plain, and not very clean... | |
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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 ; and I remember a speck... 
