 | Horace Walpole - 1861 - 552 pagina’s
...Saturday wo had a screnata at the Opera-house, called Peace in Europe, but it was a wretched performanee. On Monday there was a subscription-masquerade, much...The Duke had a dress of the same kind, but was so immenselv corpulent that he looked like Cacofogo, the drunken captain, in " Rule a Wife and have a... | |
 | John Timbs - 1865 - 348 pagina’s
...Stable Yard St. James's. — Cunningham. " On the following Monday there was a subscription masquerade. The King was well disguised in an oldfashioned English...pleased with somebody who desired him to hold their cups as they were drinking tea. The Duke had a dress of the same kind, but was so immensely corpulent... | |
 | 1870 - 784 pagina’s
...Horace had described a subscription-masquerade, at which both King and Duke were present, — the King well disguised in an old-fashioned English habit,...pleased with somebody who desired him to hold their cup while they were drinking tea, — the Duke " in a dress of the same kind, but was so immensely corpulent... | |
 | John Heneage Jesse - 1871 - 510 pagina’s
...Horace Mann, dated 3rd May, 1749, describes this splendid entertainment. " The King," he writes, " was well disguised in an old-fashioned English habit,...hold their cup, as they were drinking tea. The Duke [of Cumberland] had a dress of the same kind, but was so immensely corpulent that he looked like Cacofogo,... | |
 | 1884 - 990 pagina’s
...tree. There were booths for tea and wine, gaming tables and dancing, and about two thousand persons. The King was well disguised in an old-fashioned English...pleased with somebody who desired him to hold their cups as they were drinking tea. The Duke of Cumberland had a dress of the same kind, but was so immensely... | |
 | 1884 - 1082 pagina’s
...were booths for tea and wine, gaming tables and dancing, and about two thousand persons. The Kingwas well disguised in an old-fashioned English habit,...pleased with somebody who desired him to hold their cups as they were drinking tea. The Duke of Cumberland had a dress of the same kind, but was so immensely... | |
 | harper's monthly magazine - 1884 - 992 pagina’s
...tables ami dancing, and about two thousand pel-sons. The King was well disguised in an old-fash ioned English habit, and much pleased with somebody who desired him to hold their cups as they were drinking1 tea. The Duke of Cumberland liad a dress of the same kind, but was so immensely... | |
 | Horace Walpole - 1891 - 578 pagina’s
...many." On Saturday we had a serenata at the Opera-house, called Peace in Europe, but it was a wretched performance. On Monday there was a subscription-masquerade,...various in dresses. The King was well disguised in au old-fashioned English habit, and much pleased with somebody who desired him to hold their cup as... | |
 | 1884 - 990 pagina’s
...were booths for tea and wine, gaming tables and dancing, and about two thousand persons. The Kingwas well disguised in an old-fashioned English habit,...pleased with somebody who desired him to hold their cups as they were drinking tea. The Duke of Cumberland had a dress of the same kind, but was so immensely... | |
 | John Heneage Jesse - 1902 - 500 pagina’s
...Sir Horace Mann, dated 3d May, 1749, describes this splendid entertainment. " The king," he writes, " was well disguised in an old-fashioned English habit,...hold their cup, as they were drinking tea. The duke [of Cumberland] had a dress of the same kind, but was so immensely corpulent that he looked like Cacofogo,... | |
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The King was well disguised in an old-fashioned English habit, and much pleased with somebody who desired him to hold their cup as they were drinking tea. The Duke had a dress of the same kind, but was so immensely corpulent, that he looked like Cacofogo,... 
