A Winter in London; Or, Sketches of Fashion: A Novel, in Three Volumes,Richard Phillips, 1806 - 264 עמודים |
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Adam Osborn appearance arms blush captain Neville carriage Cecilia champ character charms countess creature crowd daughter dear discovered doctor Hoare door dress duchess of Belgrave duchess of Drinkwater earl Edward bowed Edward Montagu elegant entered exclaimed eyes fashionable world father feelings fellow fortune gentleman grace Grosvenor Square hand happy hear heart honour Jasper jewels lady Beau lady Beauchamp lady Roseville ladyship laugh letter London look lord Barton lord Roseville lord Roseville's madam Marchand marquis of Arberry mask means ment mind minstrel morning never noble occasion Ogilvy pain paragraph party pavilion poor Portman Square pray prince recollect retired reviewer rival Roseville House round scarcely scene servant sigh signor Belloni sir Alfred sir Andrew sir Everard Beauchamp smile sure surprise taste theatre thing thousand guineas tion Torrington ward winter wonder woodman words young youth Zounds
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עמוד 220 - Her drawers -were pale pink, her waistcoat green and silver, her slippers white satin, finely embroidered: her lovely arms adorned with bracelets of diamonds, and her broad girdle set round with diamonds; upon her head a rich Turkish handkerchief...
עמוד 220 - Her drawers were pale pink, her waistcoat green and silver, her slippers white satin, finely embroidered : her lovely arms adorned with bracelets of diamonds, and her broad girdle set round with diamonds; upon her head a rich Turkish handkerchief of pink and silver, her own fine black hair hanging a great length in various tresses, and on one side of her head some bodkins of jewels.
עמוד 220 - ... to admiration the beauty of her bosom, only shaded by the thin gauze of her shift. Her drawers were pale pink ; her waistcoat green and silver ; her slippers white satin, finely embroidered ; her lovely arms adorned with bracelets of diamonds; and her broad girdle set round with diamonds; upon...
עמוד 139 - Yet, though dissipated in her mode of life,: never did holy nun carry to a vestal grave a heart more true to her monastic vows, than was that of the duchess of Belgrave to those which she had taken at the altar ; notwithstanding the loud rumours which scandal loved to echo, and which the levity of her manners, or her forced condescension to some freedoms, seemed to. sanction. Nor was her heart less compassionate than. chaste. Her charities were only restrained by her poverty. Such was the duchess...
עמוד 181 - Science ! Nonsense ! The world is absolutely turned topsy-turvy, and the people are all run mad. Don't profane the name of science by associating that word with this depository of pots, pans, and potatoes. Don't call that science, ' That with clipp'd wing, familiar flirts away, In Fashion's cage, the parrot of the day : The sibyl of a shrine, where fops adore The oracle of culinary lore.
עמוד 184 - ... grant, that the increase of population, the source of that wealth, makes it a duty that the rich should not do those services for themselves, to do which forms the subsistence of the poor. I do not, therefore, wish to see duchesses of the nineteenth century working carpets, or spinning cloth ; — but, zounds, man, is there no alternative ? Have they not music and dancing ? Have they not drawing and poetry ? Have they not the exercise of fancy and taste in all the articles of dress ; and all...
עמוד 225 - All, that diversify life's crowded field, And all prolific phantasy can yield : But of the manly masks, a youthful bard Seem'd most to challenge beauty's soft regard : Adorn'd with native elegance, he wore In simplest form, the minstrel dress of yore: They call him EDWIN, who around him throng, EDWIN, immortaliz'd in Beattie's song ; And, sooth to say, within a comely frame He bore a heart that answer'd to the name ; For this neat habit deck'da generous youth ; » Of gentlest manners, and sincerest...
עמוד 221 - ... had been thrown into one, and the light was admitted from the top. The paintings which usually occupied this gallery were sent into temporary banishment ; and the apartment, under the skilful management of Carbonel, Loutherbourg, and that promising young artist Kerr Porter...
עמוד 222 - So elegantly was it e*eciitfed, that the spectator, stepping out of a blaze of splendour, shrunk back \vith horror at the darkness visible ; and ladies actually shrieked at the well counterfeited howlings of beasts of prey, and of the hollow whistling blasts of wind, which seemed alternately to scatter and collect the heaps of sand. At the extremity .of the scene was a well executed design of the ruins of a species of ancient temple, consisting of vast piles of...
עמוד 42 - In this paper," says Mr. Gifford, in his preface to the Baviad, " were given the earliest specimens of those unqualified and audacious attacks on all private character, which the town first smiled at for their quaintness, then tolerated for their absurdity ; and — now that other papers equally wicked and more intelligible have ventured to imitate it— will have to lament to the last hour of British liberty.