 | Ella Shohat, Robert Stam - 1994 - 436 דפים
...their companions. To tell you the truth. I had the wickedness enough to wish secretly that Mr. Gervase could have been there invisible, I fancy it would have very much improv'd his art to see so many fine Women naked in different postures.80 Female travelers were also... | |
 | Meyda Yegenoglu - 1998 - 200 דפים
...the Oriental harem: To tell you the truth, I had wickedness enough to wish secretly that Mr. Gervase could have been there invisible. I fancy it would have very much improv'd his art to see so many fine Women naked in different postures, some in conversation, some... | |
 | Mohja Kahf - 1999 - 228 דפים
...representing the figures of the Graces. ... I had wickedness enough to wish secretly that Mr. Jervas I2 could have been there invisible. I fancy it would...employed in braiding their hair in several pretty manners. In short, 'tis the women's coffeehouse . . . (91) The evocation of prelapsarian Eve is significant,... | |
 | Fred Inglis - 2000 - 234 דפים
...baths at Sophia. To tell you the truth, I had the wickedness enough to wish secretly that Mr. Gervase could have been there invisible. I fancy it would...Cushions while their slaves (generally pretty girls of 17 or 18) were employ 'd in braiding their hair in several pritty manners. In short, 'tis the Women's... | |
 | Carolyn A. Barros, Johanna M. Smith - 2000 - 438 דפים
...their companions. To tell you the truth, I had wickedness enough, to wish secretly, that Mr. Gervais1* could have been there invisible. I fancy it would...different postures, some in conversation, some working, other drinking coffee or sherbet, and many negligently lying on their cushions, while their slaves... | |
 | Robert Allison - 2000 - 304 דפים
...Jervas, an English painter famed for his portraits of women, could visit this bath, as it would improve his art "to see so many fine women naked, in different...some working, others drinking coffee or sherbet," others having their slave girls braiding their hair. The women urged Lady Mary to join them, but she... | |
 | Devoney Looser - 2005 - 298 דפים
...of the Graces. ... To tell you the truth, I had wickedness enough to wish secretly that Mr. Gervase could have been there invisible. I fancy it would have very much improv'd his art to see so many fine Women naked in different postures, some in conversation, some... | |
 | Patricia Goldstone - 2001 - 300 דפים
...wickedness enough to wish secretly that Mr. Jervas had been there invisible. I fancy it would very much have improved his art to see so many fine women naked,...conversation, some working, others drinking coffee or sherbert, and many negligently lying on their cushions, while their slaves (generally pretty girls... | |
 | Saree Makdisi - 2003 - 432 דפים
...naked, in different postures, some in conversation, some working, others drinking coffee or sherbot, and many negligently lying on their cushions, while...braiding their hair in several pretty fancies. In short, 'tis the womens coffee-house, where all the news of the town is told, scandal invented, &c."42 Particularly... | |
 | Saree Makdisi - 2007 - 422 דפים
...reflects on the community of women enabled by the social space of the bath and is impressed by seeing "so many fine women naked, in different postures,...conversation, some working, others drinking coffee or sherbot, and many negligently lying on their cushions, while their slaves (generally pretty girls of... | |
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To tell you the truth, I had wickedness enough to wish secretly that Mr Jervas could have been there invisible. I fancy it would have very much improved his art to see so many fine women naked in different postures... 
