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A Winter in London; Or, Sketches of Fashion: A Novel, in Three Volumes, Thomas Skinner Surr Úplné zobrazenie - 1806 |
A Winter in London; Or, Sketches of Fashion: A Novel, in Three Volumes, Thomas Skinner Surr Úplné zobrazenie - 1806 |
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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 gentleman grace Grosvenor Square hand happy hear heart honour Jasper jewels lady Beau lady Beauchamp lady Emily lady Roseville ladyship laugh 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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Strana 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.
Strana 233 - To my muse give attention and deem it not a mystery, If we jumble together music, poetry, and history» The times to display in the days of Queen Best, sir, Whose name and whose memory posterity may bless, sir. 0 the golden days of good Queen Bess, Merry be the memory of good Queen Bess.
Strana 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...
Strana 185 - ... manufactories, and their roasting and boiling experiments, should, 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...
Strana 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.
Strana 184 - ... further I 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...
Strana 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.
Strana 180 - 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 the doctor:
Strana 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.
Strana 185 - ... contented themselves with the honour of subscribing to the expense of such an institution, I should have applauded instead of censuring their conduct. I am myself a subscriber. Their lectures I think worse than useless ; their pot and kettle manufactories, and their roasting and boiling experiments, should, 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...