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" Upon this occasion she entered into a pretty disputable comparison between carving, painting, and working with the needle, affirming painting in her own opinion for the most commendable quality. I answered her grace, I could skill of neither of them,... "
Queen Elizabeth and Her Times: A Series of Original Letters, Selected from ... - Page 278
edited by - 1838 - 514 pages
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Queen Elizabeth and her times, original letters selected from the ..., Volume 1

Thomas Wright - 1838 - 576 pages
...Quene's Majestie, to thinke herself rather princelike entertayned, then hardly re strayned of anything that was fit for her Grace's estate ; and for my owne...her presence chamber I imagined, which was, that her servant Bethun had given her some privye note of me ; for as sone as he espied me, he forsake our acquayntance...
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Letters of Mary Queen of Scots, and Documents Connected with Her ..., Volume 2

Mary (Queen of Scots), Agnes Strickland - Queens - 1842 - 382 pages
...working with the needil, affirming painting in her owne opinion for the most commendable qualitie. I answered her grace, I could skill of neither of them,...her presence chamber I imagined, which was, that her servant Bethun had given her some privye note of me ; for, as sohe as he espied me, he forsake our...
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Letters of Mary, Queen of Scots: Now First Published from the ..., Volume 2

Mary (Queen of Scots), Agnes Strickland - 1845 - 504 pages
...working with the needle, affirming painting in her own opinion for the most commendable quality. I answered her grace, I could skill of neither of them,...Pictura to be veritas falsa. With this she closed up her talk, and bidding me farewell, retired into her privy chamber. " She said nothing directly of yourself...
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Lives of the Queens of Scotland and English Princesses ...

Agnes Strickland - 1856 - 428 pages
...working with the needle, affirming, ' painting, in her own opinion, to be the most commendable quality/ I answered her Grace, ' I could skill of neither of...but that I have read Pictura to be veritas falsa. 1 With this she closed up her talk, and, bidding me farewell, retired to her privy chamber." Sketched...
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Mary Stuart

Agnes Strickland, Elisabeth Strickland - Princes - 1856 - 424 pages
...working with the needle, affirming, ' painting, in her own opinion, to be the most commendable quality/ I answered her Grace, ' I could skill of neither of them, but that I have read Piclura to be veritas falsa.'' With this she closed up her talk, and, bidding me farewell, retired...
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Lives of the Queens of Scotland and English Princesses Connected ..., Volume 6

Agnes Strickland - Princes - 1857 - 380 pages
...working with the needle, affirming 'painting, in her own opinion, to be the most commendable quality.' I answered her Grace, ' I could skill of neither of...to be veritas falsa.' With this she closed up her talk, and, bidding me farewell, retired to her privy chamber." Sketched by an avowedly unfriendly pen...
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Pen and Pencil, Volume 1

Mary Balmanno - Art - 1858 - 348 pages
...workingwith the needle, affirming painting, in her own opinion, for the most commendable quality. I answered her Grace I could skill of neither of them,...Pictura to be veritas falsa. With this she closed up her talk, and bidding me farewell, retired into her privy chamber. She said nothing directly of yourself...
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The Century of Queens: With Sketches of Some Princes of Literature and Art

Great Britain - 1873 - 302 pages
...and workingwith the needle,affirming painting, in her own opinion,for the most commendable quality. I answered her Grace I could skill of neither of them,...Pictura to be veritas falsa. With this she closed up her talk, and bidding me farewell, retired into her privy chamber. She said nothing directly of yourself...
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Maitland of Lethington: And the Scotland of Mary Stuart, Volume 1

John Skelton - Scotland - 1887 - 418 pages
...and working with the needle, affirming painting in her opinion for the most commendable quality. I answered her Grace I could skill of neither of them, but that I had read ' Pictura' to be veritas falsa. With this she closed up her talk, and, bidding me farewell,...
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The Reliquary, Volume 25

Archaeology - 1884 - 410 pages
...working with the needle, affirming painting, in her own opinion, for the most commendable quality. I answered her grace, I could skill of neither of them, but that I have redd Pictura to be veritas falsa. With this she closed up her talk, and bidding me farewell, retired...
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