Two centuries of costume in America, MDCXX-MDCCCXX (1903)
Earle, Alice Morse, 1851-1911 · New York, The Macmillan Company; London, Macmillan & Co., ltd. · leaf 445
ome to America full-beardedwere stared at like the elephant, and a sight ofthem was recorded in a diary as a great event. There is no doubt that, to the general reader, theordinary thought of the Puritan is with a beard, aface and figure much like the Hogarth illustrationsof Hudibras — one of the… … Herbert Westphaling, Bishop of Hereford. dress and the commonplace beard. The wordingof Hudibras also figures the popular conception: — His tawny Beard was th equal GraceBoth of his Wisdom and his Face :^ ^ ^ ^ ^ His Doublet was of sturdy BufFAnd tho not Sword, was Cudgel-Proof.His Breeches were of…
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