 a black velvet coat lined with satin, purple trousers with a gold band running down the outside seam, a scarlet waistcoat, long lace ruffles, falling down to the tips of his fingers, white gloves with several brilliant rings outside them, and long black...  The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal - Page 2931927Full view - About this book
 | Patrick Maxwell - Literature - 1906 - 304 pages
...Beaconsfield: " Lady Dufferin told Mr. Motley that when she first met him at a dinner party, he wore a black velvet coat lined with satin, purple trousers...outside them, and long black ringlets rippling down to his shoulders." And NP Willis, the American editor of The Corsair, who met him at a dinner party... | |
 | Sir Henry William Lucy - Great Britain - 1908 - 446 pages
...Ava, who thus describes the author of " Vivian Grey," whom she met at a dinner-party :— " He wore a black velvet coat lined with satin, purple trousers...black ringlets rippling down upon his shoulders." Mr. Motley adds :— " It seemed impossible that such a Guy Fawkes could have been tolerated in any... | |
 | Sir Henry William Lucy - Great Britain - 1908 - 440 pages
...Ava, who thus describes the author of " Vivian Grey," whom she met at a dinner-party :— " He wore a black velvet coat lined with satin, purple trousers...black ringlets rippling down upon his shoulders." 5lr. Motley adds :— " It seemed impossible that such a Guy Fawkes could have been tolerated in any... | |
 | Sir Henry William Lucy - Great Britain - 1908 - 434 pages
...Ava, who thus describes the author of " Vivian Grey," whom she met at a dinner-party :— " He wore a black velvet coat lined with satin, purple trousers...black ringlets rippling down upon his shoulders." Mr. Motley adds :— " It seemed impossible that such a Guy Fawkes could have been tolerated in any... | |
 | Charles Wells Moulton - American literature - 1910 - 816 pages
...the slightest degree in describing to me his dress when she first met him at a dinner party. He wore a black velvet coat lined with satin, purple trousers...long black ringlets rippling down upon his shoulders. It seemed impossible that such a Guy Fawkes could have been tolerated in any society. His audacity,... | |
 | Royal Philosophical Society of Glasgow - Science - 1911 - 250 pages
...shoes, silver buckles, lace at his wrists, and his hair in ringlets." Or at Mrs Norton's dressed in " a black velvet coat lined with satin, purple trousers...black ringlets rippling down upon his shoulders." Whatever the impression which such an apparition may have been calculated to produce upon the fair... | |
 | Hugh Walker - English literature - 1913 - 1230 pages
...of dress than Gladstone ; but the glory of his youthful attire was dazzling. His evening dress was "a black velvet coat lined with satin, purple trousers...long black ringlets rippling down upon his shoulders 1 ." Keeping this resplendent figure in mind, we shall better understand Vivian Grey, Disraeli's novel... | |
 | William Flavelle Monypenny, George Earle Buckle - Great Britain - 1914 - 458 pages
...Jan., 1889. 1 Afterwards Lady Dufferin. 8 Letters, p. 80. sister's fantastic guest. He wore, she said, 'a black velvet coat lined with satin, purple trousers...black ringlets rippling down upon his shoulders.' 1 Lady Dufferin protested that there was not the slightest exaggeration in this picture ; but we may... | |
 | Paul Elmer More - English literature - 1915 - 272 pages
...of a candidate for Parliament who, in the days of the Reform Bill, could appear at a dinner wearing "a black velvet coat lined with satin, purple trousers...black ringlets rippling down upon his shoulders." Sometimes his trousers were green, and heaven knows what other colours, and this at a time when Bulwer's... | |
 | Paul Elmer More - American literature - 1915 - 274 pages
...of a candidate for Parliament who, in the days of the Reform Bill, could appear at a dinner wearing "a black velvet coat lined with satin, purple trousers...black ringlets rippling down upon his shoulders." Sometimes his trousers were green, and heaven knows what other colours, and this at a time when Bulwer's... | |
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