 | James Boswell - Hebrides (Scotland) - 1799 - 640 pages
...description of the scene, as it remained upon his fancy. Being asked if he could remember Queen Anne, ' He had (he said) a confused, but somehow a sort of...recollection of a lady in diamonds, and a long black hood".' This touch, however, was without any effect. I ventured to say to him, in allusion to the political... | |
 | James Boswell - 1799 - 648 pages
...description of the scene, as it remained upon his fancy. Being asked if he could remember Queen Anne, ' He had (he said) a confused, but somehow a sort of...recollection of a lady in diamonds, and a long black hood'.' This touch, however, was without any effect. I ventured to say to him, in allusion to the political... | |
 | James Boswell - 1799 - 496 pages
...description of the scene, as it remained upon his fancy. Being asked if he could remember Queen Anne, " He had (he said) a confused, but somehow a sort of...recollection of a lady in diamonds, and a long black hood."4 This touch, however, was without any effect. I ventured to say to him, in allusion to the political... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1807 - 514 pages
...description of the scene, as it remained upon his fancy. Being asked if he could remember Queen Anne,—" He had (he said) a confused, but somehow • a sort...recollection of a lady in diamonds, and a long black hood." 7 This touch, however, was without any effect. I ventured to say to him, in allusion to the political... | |
 | James Boswell - 1817 - 466 pages
...description of the i'cene, as it remained upon his fancy. Being asked if he could remember Queen Anne,—" He had (he said) a confused, but somehow a sort of...recollection of a lady in diamonds, and a long black hood." This touch, however, was without any tfiect. 1 ventured to say to him, in allusion to the eolitical... | |
 | Samuel Pegge - Anecdotes - 1818 - 464 pages
...Lichfield ; and many years afterwards, being asked if he could remember Queen Anne, said, '•' he had a confused, but somehow a sort of solemn recollection...of a Lady in diamonds, and a long black hood." The Honourable Daines Barrington -f' has preserved an anecdote, which he heard from an old man who was... | |
 | James Boswell - 1820 - 442 pages
...remained opon his fancy. Be lng asked if he could remember Qneen Anne, — " He had (he said) a confuted, but somehow a sort of solemn recollection of a lady in diamonds, and a long black hood." This touch, however, wai without any effect. I ventured to say to him, in allnsion to the political... | |
 | James Boswell - 1821 - 394 pages
...description of the scene, as it remained upon his fancy. Being asked if he could remember Queen Anne, — " He had (he said) a confused, but somehow a sort of...recollection of a lady in diamonds, and a long black hood."* This touch, however, was without any effect. I ventured to say to him, in allusion to the political... | |
 | James Boswell - 1822 - 514 pages
...description of the scene, as it remained upon his fancy. Being asked if he could remember Queen Anne, — " He had (he said) a confused, but somehow a sort of...recollection of a lady in diamonds, and a long black hood."7 This touch, however, was without any effect. I ventured to say to him, in allusion to the political... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1822 - 508 pages
...description of the scene, as it remained upon his fancy. Being asked if he could remember Queen Anne, — " He had (he said) a confused, but somehow a sort of...recollection of a lady in diamonds, and a long black hood."7 This touch, however, was without any effect. I ventured to say to him, in allusion to the political... | |
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Being asked if he could remember Queen Anne, ' He had (he said) a confused, but somehow a sort of solemn recollection of a lady in diamonds, and a long black hood'. 
