 | People - 1845 - 348 páginas
...ill country tailor — his linen was plain and not very clean, and I remember a speck or two of blood upon his little band, which was not much larger than...stature was of a good size, his sword stuck close by his side, his countenance swollen and reddish, his voice sharp and untuneable, and his eloquence... | |
 | Robert Southey - 1845 - 174 páginas
...ill country tailor. His linen was plain, and not very clean ; and I remember a speck or two of blood upon his little band, which was not much larger than...hatband ; his stature was of a good size ; his sword [* He sat in this parliament — commonly known as the Long Parliament — for the town of Cambridge.... | |
 | Robert Southey - 1845 - 190 páginas
...known as the Long Parliament — for the town of Cambridge. His fellowmember was John Lawry, Esq.] ^ stuck close to his side, his countenance swollen and...and untunable, and his eloquence full of fervor."* But it was more by heat and earnestness than by eloquence that Cromwell made himself noticed at this... | |
 | 1846 - 544 páginas
...ill country tailor ; his linen was plain and not very clean ; and I remember a spot or two of blood upon his little band, which was not much larger than...and untunable ; and his eloquence full of fervor." His mind seems by this time to have undergone a marked change. The applause he had received in the... | |
 | John Frost - 1846 - 386 páginas
...ill country tailor ; his linen was plain, and not very clean ; and I remember a speck or two of blood upon his little band, which was not much larger than...voice sharp and untunable ; and his eloquence full of fervour." Such was Oliver Cromwell, who now, emerging from an obscure position in the parliamentary... | |
 | 1846 - 396 páginas
...ill country tailor; his linen was plain, and not very clean ; and I remember a speck or two of blood upon his little band, which was not much larger than...countenance swollen and reddish, his voice sharp and * Dugdsle's account (in his ' Short View of the Troubles') is a piece of good comedy: " His boldness... | |
 | Frederick William Fairholt - 1846 - 638 páginas
...ill country tailor ; his linen was plain, and not very clean ; and I remember a speck or two of blood upon his little band, which was not much larger than...a good size ; his sword stuck close to his side." The appearance of such men, and their rapid accession to power, must not a little have astonished the... | |
 | James Robinson Planché - 1846 - 412 páginas
...ill country tailor ; his linen was plain, and not very clean ; and I remember a speck or two of blood upon his little band, which was not much larger than...stature was of a good size; his sword stuck close to hi§ side." Helmets or head-pieces of the time of Charles I. and Cromwell. THE ARMwH at this period,... | |
 | 412 páginas
...hy a country tailor; his linen was plain and not very clean, and I remember a speck or two of blood upon his little band, which was not much larger than his collar; his hat was without a hat-band, — hia stature was of a good size, — his sword stuck close to his side, — his countenance swollen... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1846 - 548 páginas
...parliament ; " his linen plain and not very clean ; his hat without a hatband ; his countenance swoln and reddish ; his voice sharp and untunable, and his eloquence full of fervor" ; adding to the picture, " a speck or two of blood on his little band, which was not much larger than... | |
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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,... 
