 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
 | American essays - 1915 - 884 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 colors, and this at a time when Bulwer's... | |
 | Paul Elmer More - English literature - 1915 - 538 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... | |
 | Hugh Walker - English literature - 1921 - 1108 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...black ringlets rippling down upon his shoulders'." Keeping this resplendent figure in mind, we shall better understand Vivian Grey, Disraeli's novel of... | |
 | George Edward Woodberry - American literature - 1921 - 336 pages
...proboscis. These, however, are all familiar features, and even "Dizzy," as Mrs. Norton describes him, "with a black velvet coat lined with satin, purple...outside them, and long black ringlets rippling down his shoulders," would not be strange except for the impossibility that the eye labors under in endeavoring... | |
 | George Edward Woodberry - American literature - 1921 - 336 pages
...proboscis. These, however, are all familiar features, and even "Dizzy," as Mrs. Norton describes him, "with a black velvet coat lined with satin, purple...outside them, and long black ringlets rippling down his shoulders," would not be strange except for the impossibility that the eye labors under in endeavoring... | |
 | George Edward Woodberry - American literature - 1921 - 344 pages
...proboscis. These, however, are all familiar features, and even "Dizzy," as Mrs. Norton describes him, "with a black velvet coat lined with satin, purple...outside them, and long black ringlets rippling down his shoulders," would not be strange except for the impossibility that the eye labors under in endeavoring... | |
 | Book collecting - 1922 - 840 pages
...imposing upon the imagination of his time. As late as 1833, he is described as appearing at a dinner in "a black velvet coat lined with satin; purple trousers...black ringlets rippling down upon his shoulders". The inside of his romantic ostentation at the age of twenty-nine, his clear-eyed egotism, the anguish... | |
 | Baroness Constance Flower Battersea - Great Britain - 1922 - 554 pages
...Lady Dufferin's pen we have the following account of Mr. Disraeli in the year 1832, as having worn a black velvet coat lined with satin . . . purple...running down the outside seam, a scarlet waistcoat and long lace ruffles, falling down to the tips of his fingers, white gloves with several brilliant... | |
 | Baroness Constance Flower Battersea - Great Britain - 1922 - 558 pages
...Lady Dufferin's pen we have the following account of Mr. Disraeli in the year 1832, as having worn a black velvet coat lined with satin . . . purple...running down the outside seam, a scarlet waistcoat and long lace ruffles, falling down to the tips of his fingers, white gloves with several brilliant... | |
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