 | Henry Sampson - 1874 - Страниц: 670
...November 8th, he says, with infinite quaintness, " To church, where I found that my coming in a perriwigg did not prove so strange as I was afraid it would,...would presently have cast their eyes all upon me." Pepys was, it seems, possessed of that rather unpleasant consciousness which prompts a man who wears... | |
 | Henry Sampson - 1874 - Страниц: 716
...November 8th, he says, with infinite quaintness, " To church, where I found that my coming in a perriwigg did not prove so strange as I was afraid it would,...would presently have cast their eyes all upon me." Pepys was, it seems, possessed of that rather unpleasant consciousness which prompts a man who wears... | |
 | Literary curiosities - 1876 - Страниц: 334
...chronicles his first appearance in the new style of head-gear. Under 8th November, 1663, he writes : " To church, where I found that my coming in a periwig...would presently have cast their eyes all upon me." This fashion was introduced from France, where the servile courtiers first assumed periwigs in compliment... | |
 | Samuel Pepys - 1876 - Страниц: 538
...8th. To church, where I found that my coming in a perriwigg did not prove so strange as I was afeard it would, for I thought that all the church would presently have cast their eyes all upon me. Here an ordinary lazy sermon of Mr. Mill's, and then home to dinner, and there Tom came and dined with... | |
 | 1879 - Страниц: 812
...I am glad it is over," he writes; and the equal, if not superior terrors of church, "where I found my coming in a periwig did not prove so strange as...thought that all the church would presently have cast eyes upon me; but I found no such thing." Probably the maids were better judges then than we should... | |
 | 1879 - Страниц: 794
...the equal, if not superior terrors of church, " where I found my coming in a periwig did not prove eo strange as I was afraid it would, for I thought that all the church would presently have cast eyes upon me ; but I found no such thing." Probably the maids were better judges then than we should... | |
 | Graeme Mercer Adam, George Stewart - 1880 - Страниц: 706
...Gentilhomme." When the Sunday after he went to •church, he says, with a touch of comic vanity, ' I found that my coming in a periwig did not prove...would presently have cast their eyes all upon me, but I found no such thing.' I may add for the benefit of those who may have to wear wigs against their... | |
 | 1891 - Страниц: 682
...Five days later he writes : — Lord's Day. — To church, where I found that my coming in a periwigg did not prove so strange as I was afraid it would,...all the church would presently have cast their eyes upon me, but I find no such thing. It may be inferred from this that the peruke, in its incipient stage,... | |
 | 1893 - Страниц: 586
...the diarist's mind to be told how, when he went to church, " I found that my coming in a perriwigg did not prove so strange as I was afraid it would,...church would presently have cast their eyes all upon me ;" and he brings into relief his prudence at the expense of his loyalty when he writes, " Hearing that... | |
 | Sir Herbert Maxwell - 1895 - Страниц: 374
...the diarist's mind to be told how, when he went to church, " I found that my coming in a perriwigg did not prove so strange as I was afraid it would,...church would presently have cast their eyes all upon me ; " and he brings into relief his prudence at the expense of his loyalty when he writes, " Hearing... | |
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To church, where I found that my coming in a perriwigg did not prove so strange as I was afraid it would, for I thought that all the church would presently have cast their eyes all upon me, but I found no such thing.2 9th. 
