Critical and Historical Essays: Contributed to the Edinburgh Review, Volume 5B. Tauchnitz, 1850 - 1742 pagina's |
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Pagina 18
... court dress ; another fop as ugly and as insolent , but lodged on Snow Hill , and tricked out in secondhand finery for the Hampstead ball ; an old woman , all wrinkles and rouge , flirting her fan with the air of a miss of seventeen ...
... court dress ; another fop as ugly and as insolent , but lodged on Snow Hill , and tricked out in secondhand finery for the Hampstead ball ; an old woman , all wrinkles and rouge , flirting her fan with the air of a miss of seventeen ...
Pagina 31
... court , is quite certain . The same income , too , which in Saint Martin's Street would have afforded her every comfort , must have been found scanty at Saint James's . We cannot venture to speak confidently of the price of millinery ...
... court , is quite certain . The same income , too , which in Saint Martin's Street would have afforded her every comfort , must have been found scanty at Saint James's . We cannot venture to speak confidently of the price of millinery ...
Pagina 32
... court should have caused a fluttering in the bosom of an inexperienced young woman . But it was the duty of the parent to watch over the child , and to show her that on one side were only infantile vanities and chimerical hopes , on the ...
... court should have caused a fluttering in the bosom of an inexperienced young woman . But it was the duty of the parent to watch over the child , and to show her that on one side were only infantile vanities and chimerical hopes , on the ...
Pagina 33
... court was like going to heaven ; that to see princes and princesses was a kind of beatific vision ; that the exquisite felicity enjoyed by royal persons was not con- fined to themselves , but was communicated by some myste- rious efflux ...
... court was like going to heaven ; that to see princes and princesses was a kind of beatific vision ; that the exquisite felicity enjoyed by royal persons was not con- fined to themselves , but was communicated by some myste- rious efflux ...
Pagina 36
... court moved from Kew to Windsor , and from Windsor back to Kew . One dull colonel went out of waiting , and another dull colonel came into waiting . An impertinent servant made a blunder about tea , and caused a misunderstanding between ...
... court moved from Kew to Windsor , and from Windsor back to Kew . One dull colonel went out of waiting , and another dull colonel came into waiting . An impertinent servant made a blunder about tea , and caused a misunderstanding between ...
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