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" Elizabeth's porter, from a picture in the guard-chamber at Kensington : they were admirable masks. Lord Rochford, Miss Evelyn, Miss Bishop, Lady Stafford, and Mrs. Pitt, were in vast beauty ; particularly the last, who had a red veil, which made her look... "
The Lively Lady Townshend and Her Friends: An Effort to Set Forth the Doings ... - Page 83
by Erroll Sherson - 1926 - 314 pages
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Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford, to Sir Horace Mann ..., Volume 2

Horace Walpole - 1833 - 488 pages
...Bishop, Lady Stafford,f and Mrs. Pitt J were in vast beauty, particularly the last, who had a red veil, which made her look gloriously handsome. I forgot...taken her for Andromeda ; and Lady Betty Smithson IT had such a pyramid of baubles upon her head, that she was exactly the Princess of Babylon in Grammont....
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Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford, to Sir Horace Mann ..., Volume 2

Horace Walpole - 1833 - 484 pages
...Bishop, Lady Stafford,f and Mrs. Pitt J were in vast beauty, particularly the last, who had a red veil, which made her look gloriously handsome. I forgot...would have taken her for Andromeda ; and Lady Betty SmithsonIT had such a pyramid of baubles upon her head, that she was exactly the Princess of Babylon...
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The letters of Horace Walpole [ed. by J. Wright].

Horace Walpole (4th earl of Orford.) - 1840 - 522 pages
...Bishop, Lady Stafford,' and Mrs. Pitt,2 were in vast beauty; particularly the last, who had a red veil, which made her look gloriously handsome. I forgot...Quixote, and the finest figure I ever saw. Miss Chudleigh 3 was Iphigenia, but so naked that you would have taken her for Andromeda; and Lady Betty Smitbson...
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The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford: Including Numerous ..., Volume 2

Horace Walpole - 1840 - 618 pages
...Bishop, Lady Stafford,1 and Mrs. Pitt,2 were in vast beauty ; particularly the last, who had a red veil, which made her look gloriously handsome. I forgot...Quixote, and the finest figure I ever saw. Miss Chudleigh 3 was Iphigenia, but so naked that you would have taken her for Andromeda; and Lady Betty Smithson...
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Horace Walpole - 1842 - 562 pages
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Memoirs of the Court of England: From the Revolution in 1688 to ..., Volume 3

John Heneage Jesse - 1843 - 488 pages
...Bishop, Lady Stafford, and Mrs. Pitt, were in vast beauty ; particularly the last, who had a red veil, which made her look gloriously handsome. I forgot...Betty Smithson had such a pyramid of baubles upon her bead tbat sbe was exactly the Princess of Babylon in Grammont."* It was on this occasion, that the...
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Memoirs of the Court of England: From the Revolution in 1688 to ..., Volume 3

John Heneage Jesse - 1843 - 492 pages
...Bishop, Lady Stafford, and Mrs. Pitt, were in vast beauty; particularly the last, who had a red veil, which made her look gloriously handsome. I forgot...Andromeda; and Lady Betty Smithson had such a pyramid of * The Duke of Cumberland. baubles upon her head that she was exactly the Princess of Babylon in Grammont."*...
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London and Its Celebrities: A Second Series of Literary and ..., Volume 2

John Heneage Jesse - 1850 - 502 pages
...lemonade, At a masquerade, So now she *s dead and gone away. SOMERSET HOUSE. 407 Iphigenia, but so naked you would have taken her for Andromeda ; and Lady...pyramid of baubles upon her head, that she was exactly the Princess of Babylon in Grammont." The Princess of Wales is said to have been so confounded at the...
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The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford, Volume 2

Horace Walpole - 1857 - 552 pages
...Lady Stafford, 1 and Mrs. Pitt, 2 were in vast beauty ; particularly the last, who had a red veil, which made her look gloriously handsome. I forgot...the finest figure I ever saw. Miss Chudleigh* was Iphigeuia, but so naked that you would have taken her for Andromeda ; and Lady Betty Smithson [Seymour]...
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The Letters of Horace Walpole: Earl of Orford, Volume 2

Horace Walpole - 1861 - 554 pages
...CUNNINGHAM. Lady Stafford,1 and Mrs. Pitt,' were in vast beauty ; particularly tho last, who had a red veil, which made her look gloriously handsome. I forgot...taken her for Andromeda ; and Lady Betty Smithson [Seymour] had such a pyramid of baubles upon her head, that she was exactly the Princess of Babylon...
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