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Besides the two Princes the only other Knight of the Garter was the Earl of Southampton. The rest of the Lords and Gentlemen in Waiting were also in Court-mourning, and all without the smallest decoration. After the conclusion of the Service the clergyman ascended the pulpit in his black gown.
And so the editors of divers papers were the victims of a decorous anguish, court-mourning was decreed, and that wreckage which passed for the mutilated body of Prince Hilary was buried with every appropriate honor. Within the week most people had forgotten him, for everybody was discussing the execution of the Duc d'Enghein.
She was still alive here in England, pleasantly quiet, "at Burley on the Hill," till Maria Eleonora was seven years old; who possibly enough still reads in her memory some fading vestige of new black frocks or trimmings, and brief court-mourning, on the death of poor Aunt Anne over seas.
Hence the very time that a man shall mourn, and the very time that he shall only half-mourn, and the very time that he shall cease to mourn, is fixed for him by the world, whatever may be the duration of his own sorrow. In court-mourning also, we have an instance of men being instructed to mourn, where their feelings are neither interested nor concerned.
They discard also mourning garments These are only emblems of sorrow and often make men pretend to be what they are not This contrary to Christianity Thus they may become little better than disguised pomp, or fashionable forms This instanced in the changes and duration of common mourning and in the custom also of court-mourning Ramifications of the latter.
This would be an appropriate costume for the street; although many people wore court-mourning from economy, and forgot to take it off when the court did. Fashion plates in various books. For evening dress, suits all of black were beginning to come in towards 1789. In the street gentlemen were beginning to dress like grooms, aping the English.
But this is not altogether true, as the following slight instance may show: Goldsmith's last Comedy was to be represented during some court-mourning: and Mr. Steevens appointed to call on Dr. Johnson, and carry him to the tavern where he was to dine with others of the Poet's friends.
But this is not altogether true, as the following slight instance may show: Goldsmith's last Comedy was to be represented during some court-mourning : and Mr. Steevens appointed to call on Dr. Johnson, and carry him to the tavern where he was to dine with others of the Poet's friends.
The marriage of Henry IV. and Marie de Medici, and the exquisite court-mourning for the afore-mentioned queen, together with a few words let fall by M. de Bassompiere, king of the beaux of the period, made the fortune of the second generation of Percerins.
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