 | Henry Sampson - 1874 - 670 páginas
...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 - 716 páginas
...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 - 334 páginas
...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 - 538 páginas
...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 - 812 páginas
...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 - 794 páginas
...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 - 706 páginas
...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 - 682 páginas
...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 - 586 páginas
...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 - 374 páginas
...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. 
