 | Lucy Aikin - 1818 - 544 pages
...and seemed to • Strype's Annals. ANECDOTE. 391 touch on the vanity of decking the body too finely. Her majesty told the ladies, that if the bishop held...without a staff, and leave his mantle behind him. Perchance the bishop hath never sought her highness' wardrobe, or he would have chosen another Nugz... | |
 | Lucy Aikin - 1823 - 548 pages
...preached to the queen's majesty, and seemed to touch on the vanity of decking the body too finely. Her majesty told the ladies, that if the bishop held...discourse on such matters, she would fit him for heaven j but he should walk thither ' Strype's Annuls, without a staff, and leave his mantle behind him. Perchance... | |
 | Lucy Aikin - 1826 - 542 pages
...preached to the queen's majesty, and seemed to touch on the vanity of decking the body too finely. Her majesty told the ladies, that if the bishop held...would fit him for heaven ; but he should walk thither ' Strype's Annals. 392 without a staff, and leave his mantle behind him. Perchance the bishop hath... | |
 | Henry Hallam - 1827 - 538 pages
...vehemently against female vanity in dress, which came home to the queen's conscience, she told her ladies, that if the bishop held more discourse on...without a staff, and leave his mantle behind him. Harrington's State of the Church, in Nuga3 Antiquse, i. i7o; see too p. ai7. It will of course not... | |
 | Henry Hallam - 1827 - 1030 pages
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 | Walter Scott - 1836 - 434 pages
...preached to the Queen's Majesty ; and seemed to touch on the vanity of decking the body too finely. Her Majesty told the ladies, that if the bishop held...without a staff, and leave his mantle behind him." — Nugcc Antigua.] [" Throughout the whole of her reign,*' says Sir Walter Scott, elsewhere, " Queen... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1836 - 442 pages
...Majesty ; and seemed to touch on the vanity of decking the body too finely. Her Majesty told the ladles, that if the bishop held more discourse on such matters,...without a staff, and leave his mantle behind him."— .A^fE Antiqucc.] [" Throughout the whole of her reign,'' says Sir Walter Scott, elsewhere, " Queen... | |
 | 1836 - 590 pages
...displayed by many persons in their apparel, she told her attendants, that if he ' held more discourses on such matters, she would fit him for heaven, but...without a staff, and leave his mantle behind him' *. Such was the personal character of the queen, of whom the Church of England boasts as her restorer... | |
 | William Jones - 1838 - 696 pages
...reflected on the vanity displayed by many persons in their apparel, she told her attendants that if he " held more discourse on such matters, she would fit...without a staff, and leave his mantle behind him."• Such was the personal character of the queen, of whom the church of England boasts as her restorer... | |
 | 1840 - 516 pages
...preached to the queen's majesty, and seemed to touch on the vanity of decking the body too finely. Her majesty told the ladies, that ' if the .bishop...without a staff, and leave his mantle behind him.' Perchance, the bishop hath never sought her highness's wardrobe, or he would have chosen another text."... | |
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Sunday (April last)," pursues our courtly gossip, " my lord of London preached to the queen's majesty, and seemed to touch on the vanity of decking the body too finely. Her majesty told the ladies, ' That if the bishop held more discourse on such matters,... 
