A Winter in London: Or, Sketches of Fashion : a Novel ...R. Phillips, 1806 |
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Adam Osborn appearance arms blush captain Neville carriage Cecilia champ character charms countess crowd daughter dear discovered doctor Hoare door dress duchess of Belgrave duchess of Drinkwater earl Edward bowed Edward Montagu entered excited exclaimed eyes fashionable world father feelings fellow fortune gentleman grace Grosvenor Square hand happy Hartley hear heart honour interrupted Jasper jewels lady Beau lady Beauchamp lady Roseville ladyship laugh letter London 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 replied reviewer rival Roseville House round scarcely scene servant signor Belloni sir Alfred sir Andrew sir Everard Beauchamp smile sure surprise tagu taste tell theatre thing thousand guineas tion Torrington ward winter wonder woodman words young youth Zounds
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עמוד 220 - She was dressed in a caftan of gold brocade, flowered with silver, very well fitted to her shape, and showing to admiration the beauty of her bosom, only shaded by the thin gauze of her shift.
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 182 - But are not the scientific pursuits of the present day at least as beneficial to society as the old amusements of working carpets and chair bottoms ?" said doctor Hoare. " No ; they are not. The end of such occupations was to render our homes, a word now almost obsolete, agreeable to their masters ; whereas this mania of philosophy has a direct contrary tendency,converting our parlours into chemical laboratories, and our drawing-rooms into debating societies.
עמוד 180 - ... Such was the confused collision of sounds that struck the ears of Edward, instead of the scientific lecture he had anticipated. At the upper end of the room he observed the Beauchamps and the signor Belloni. Seats were reserved for the duchess of Belgrave's party, very near them. The parties mingled. As Edward was standing in one corner of the room, endeavouring to catch a part of the lecture, he felt his coat twitched, and % turning round saw doctor Hoare at his elbow. " Step this way," said...
עמוד 181 - I see Ogilvy." Edward followed him out of the lecture-room. '* Well, my old friend," said the doctor, " what do you say to the moderns now ? Here are golden times, when science is not only patronised by fashion, but when it is absolutely necessary to be scientific to be fashionable I"
עמוד 185 - I conceive, have been, distinct branches, entirely separated from and unconnected with the literary or scientific parts of the establishment ! — An union of soup and science ' — Good Heavens ! — What cannot fashion do ! — But you ask what brings me here ? The news-room and the library. These are supplied with more than fifty periodical publications, in English, French, and German, with all the London, and many of the foreign newspapers.
עמוד 181 - £cience ! 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 185 - I feel no inclination further to contest a subject on which it is impossible there should be a difference of opinion. But, if you are not an approver of this Institution, may I ask what brings you here ?" " I have not condemned the Institution. 7 On the contrary, with some exceptions, I admire its plan. The avowed purpose of its establishment was ' the diffusion of knowledge, and facilitating the general introduc lion of useful mechanical improvements...
עמוד 232 - ... the lovely spring of nature smiles in all her charms ; and to go into the country for the purpose of enjoying the summer, just as the fall of the leaf gives notice of the approach of winter. It makes them do many things that are extremely painful to them, which they call taking their pleasures ; and it deters them from the pursuit of heartfelt enjoyments, from a dread of their petrifying dulness. At length it deprives them of the power of seeing, hearing, tasting, feeling, reasoning, or deciding...
עמוד 184 - ... 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 the arrangements of routs, balls, and assemblies ? Besides, I would even allow them a dip into botany and horticulture : — all this may do well enough for amusement. But let me not hear the studies of abstruse sciences called feminine amusements, and the severest labours of human...