...occasion during that Queen's reign, ' but so few company that the Queen sent for us into her bedchamber, where we made our bows and stood about twenty of us round the room, while she looted at us round, with her fan in her mouth, and once a minute said about three words to some that...

...round, with her fan in her mouth, and once a minute said about three words to some that were nearest to her, and then she was told Dinner was ready and went out.' Other references might be quoted to the comparative dulness and want of interest in the ordinary Court...

...queen conducted herself at a drawing-room is thus described by Swift, in his " Journal to Stella:" " She looked at us round with her fan in her mouth,...then she was told dinner was ready, and went out." August 8, 1711. me to ask Lady Masham, and what follows is dictated by her ladyship. "The bedchamber...

...a drawing-room is thus described by Swift, in his " Journal to Stella : " " She looked at us ronnd with her fan in her mouth, and once a minute said...then she was told dinner was ready, and went out." August 8, 1711. me to ask Lady Masham, and what follows is dictated by her ladyship . "The bedchamber...

...time who are not mentioned in these pages. We see Queen Anne holding a Drawing-room in her bedroom : " she looked at us round with her fan in her mouth,...about three words to some that were nearest her." We see Harley, afterwards the Earl of Oxford, " a pure trifler," who was always putting off important...

...in the National Porirait Gallery. account of one of her receptions, " the Queen looked at us with a fan in her mouth, and once a minute said about three words to some one who was near her. Then she was told dinner was ready and went out." Now every event in the Royal...

...An amusing picture is given of the drawing-room, where Anne looked round on the silent courtiers " with her fan in her mouth, and once a minute said about three words to some that were nearest her." The toast and maid of honour who stands with her hat off as her Majesty drives by is no rival of Stella's...

...Stella on the 8th of August, 1711, "but so few company that the Queen sent for us into her bedchamber, where we made our bows, and stood about twenty of...then she was told dinner was ready, and went out." Very different was the company which Swift habitually kept. It had its seamy side. There was, for instance,...

...stuff. There WM a drawing room today at Court but so few company that the Queen sent for us into her bed chamber where we made our bows and stood about twenty...and then she was told dinner was ready and went out. Swift must have been an enormous social success. After the first three weeks he confesses : " It has...

...a drawing-room to-day at Court; but so few company, that the queen sent for us into her bedchamber, where we made our bows, and stood about twenty of us round the room."180 Between the frequent cancellations and relative inaccessibility of such assemblies, it must...