 It was certainly a wonderful medley of people. Gorgeous peeresses chatted affably to violent Radicals, popular preachers brushed coat-tails with eminent sceptics, a perfect bevy of bishops kept following a stout prima-donna from room to room, on the staircase...  Lord Arthur Savile's Crime & Other Stories - Strana 4podľa Oscar Wilde - 1891 - Počet stránok 168Úplné zobrazenie - O tejto knihe
 | Oscar Wilde - 1907 - Počet stránok 298
...brushed coat-tails with eminent sceptics, a perfect bevy of bishops kept following a stout prima-donna from room to room, on the staircase stood several...and it was said that at one time the supper-room was absolately crammed with geniuses. In fact, it was one of Lady Windermere's best nights, and the Princess... | |
 | Oscar Wilde - 1909 - Počet stránok 284
...brushed coat-tails with eminent sceptics, a perfect bevy of bishops kept following a stout prima-donna from room to room, on the staircase stood several...and it was said that at one time the supper-room was abso3 lutely crammed with geniuses. In fact, it was one of Lady Winder-mere's best nights, and the... | |
 | Oscar Wilde - 1910 - Počet stránok 286
...brushed coat-tails with eminent sceptics, a perfect bevy of bishops kept following a stout prima-donna from room to room, on the staircase stood several...and it was said that at one time the supper-room was abso3 lutely crammed with geniuses. In fact, it was one of Lady Windermere's best nights, and the Princess... | |
 | Arthur Ransome - 1912 - Počet stránok 226
...brushed coat-tails with emi84 nent sceptics, a perfect bevy of bishops kept following a stout prima-donna from room to room, on the staircase stood several...supper-room was absolutely crammed with geniuses." There was a cheiromantist, and a Duchess, who, on learning that he was present, "began looking about... | |
 | Oscar Wilde - 1915 - Počet stránok 1054
...brushed coat-tails with eminent sceptics, a perfect bevy of bishops kept following a stout prima-donna from room to room, on the staircase stood several...crammed with geniuses. In fact, it was one of Lady Winder321 L mere's best nights, and the Princess stayed till nearly half-past eleven. As soon as she... | |
 | Peter Raby - 1988 - Počet stránok 180
...brushed coat-tails with eminent sceptics, a perfect bevy of bishops kept following a stout prima-donna from room to room, on the staircase stood several...supper-room was absolutely crammed with geniuses." The incidental irony is relatively unobtrusive - the Royal Academicians 'disguised as artists', for... | |
 | Patrick M. Horan - 1997 - Počet stránok 156
...brushed coattails with eminent sceptics, a perfect bevy of bishops kept following a stout prima-donna from room to room, on the staircase stood several...fact, it was one of Lady Windermere's best nights. 9 Conspicuously quiet in these early stories, however, is Virginia who becomes a mother at the end... | |
 | Salvatore Attardo - 2001 - Počet stránok 264
...none (7,); NS irr; LA irr. sceptics*, & perfect bevy of bishops kept following a stout prima-donna9 from room to room, on the staircase stood several Royal Academicians, disguised as artists,10 and it was said that at one time the supper-room was absolutely crammed with geniuses.11... | |
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