 | Alexander Smellie - 1904 - 556 pàgines
...Bishop Burnet says ; " he was very big ; his hair red, hanging oddly about him ; his tongue was too big for his mouth, which made him bedew all that he talked...; and his whole manner was rough and boisterous." His portrait, although Lely's consummate art has done for it everything which could be done, attests... | |
 | T. E. S. Clarke, Helen Charlotte Foxcroft, Charles Harding Firth - 1907 - 650 pàgines
...appearance ; he was very big, his " hair was red, hanging oddly about him, his tongue was too " big for his mouth, which made him bedew all that he talked...to, and his whole manner was rough and boisterous, and " very unfit for a Court. He was very learned, not only " in Latin, in which he was a master, but... | |
 | T. E. S. Clarke, Helen Charlotte Foxcroft, Charles Harding Firth - 1907 - 662 pàgines
...appearance ; he was very big, his " hair was red, hanging oddly about him, his tongue was too " big for his mouth, which made him bedew all that he talked...to, and his whole manner was rough and boisterous, and " very unfit for a Court. He was very learned, not only " in Latin, in which he was a master, but... | |
 | T. E. S. Clarke, Helen Charlotte Foxcroft, Charles Harding Firth - 1907 - 664 pàgines
...appearance; he was very " big; his hair was red, hanging oddly about him; his tongue " was too big for his mouth which made him bedew all that " he talked...; and his whole manner was rough and "boisterous, and very unfit for a court1." Burnet enumerates moral features in the same fashion as physical, pouring... | |
 | John Willcock - 1907 - 508 pàgines
...says the historian, " he was very big : his hair red, hanging oddly about him : his tongue was too big for his mouth, which made him bedew all that he talked...to : and his whole manner was rough and boisterous, and very unfit for a court " 1. In the meantime there was some danger of the Argyll estates being so... | |
 | David Nichol Smith - 1918 - 398 pàgines
...very ill appearance : He was very big : His hair red, hanging oddly about him : His tongue was too big for his mouth, which made him bedew all that he talked to.' There is no hint of this in Clarendon's character of Lauderdale, nor could Clarendon have spoken with... | |
 | William Cook Mackenzie - 1923 - 548 pàgines
...following words : " he was very big; his hair red, hanging oddly about him ; his tongue was too big for his mouth, which made him bedew all that he talked to : his whole manner was boisterous, and very unfit for a Court." So much for his looks, which, if the... | |
 | Hugh Montgomery-Massingberd, Christopher Simon Sykes - 1997 - 288 pàgines
...described by Bishop Burnct as 'very big, his hair red, hanging oddly about him; his tongue was too big for his mouth which made him bedew all that he talked to'. Greedy and crude, lie was prone to gobble a leg of lamb before going out to dinner and, hardly surprisingly,... | |
 | John Macleod - 2001 - 430 pàgines
...ill appearance; he was very big; his hair was red, hanging loosely about him; his tongue was too big for his mouth, which made him bedew all that he talked...to; and his whole manner was rough and boisterous, and very unfit for court.' Certainly he drank too much. Lauderdale presided over what amounted to a... | |
 | John Wilmot Earl of Rochester - 2002 - 332 pàgines
...very ill appearance: he was very big: his hair red, hanging oddly about him: his tongue was too big for his mouth, which made him bedew all that he talked to" (Burnet, History of His Own Time). 3. Frazier: Sir Alexander Frazier, the King's principal physician.... | |
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He made a very ill appearance : he was very big : his hair red, hanging oddly about him : his tongue was too big for his mouth, which made him bedew all that he talked to : and his whole manner was rough and boisterous, and very unfit for a court. 
