 To-day she was a paysanne, with her straw hat tied at the back of her head, looking as if too new to what she passed, to know what she looked at. Yesterday she, perhaps, had been the dressed belle of Hyde Park, trimmed, powdered, patched, painted to the...  Memoirs, Anecdotes, Facts, and Opinions - Strana 24podľa Laetitia Matilda Hawkins - 1824 - Počet stránok 415Úplné zobrazenie - O tejto knihe
 | Laetitia Matilda Hawkins - 1824 - Počet stránok 442
...figure; and as she proceeded in her course, she acquired a remarkable facility in adapting her deportment to her dress. When she was to be seen daily in St....whole story of all that was passing in the house she was quitting. of the day, three candidates and her husband were outriders; and this in the face of... | |
 | Percy Hetherington Fitzgerald - 1874 - Počet stránok 346
...utmost power of rouge and white lead ; to-morrow she would be the cravated Amazon of the riding-house ; but be she what she might, the hats of the fashionable...high phaeton, in which she was driven by the favoured of the day. Three candidates and her husband were outriders : and this in the face of the congregations... | |
 | Dutton Cook - 1881 - Počet stránok 296
...utmost power of rouge and white lead ; to-morrow she would be the cravated Amazon of the riding-house ; but be she what she might, the hats of the fashionable promenaders swept the ground as she passed." The prince's favourite had reached her apogee. It was very splendid shame — while it lasted. She... | |
 | Herbert Greenhough Smith - 1907 - Počet stránok 1026
...utmost power of rouge and white lead. Tomorrow she would be the cravated Amazon of the riding-house ; but be she what she might, the hats of the fashionable promenaders swept the ground as she passed." Sarah Siddons, probably the greatest tragedienne England, if not the world, has ever seen, was the... | |
 | Mary Robinson - 1894 - Počet stránok 324
...patched, painted to the utmost power of rouge and white lead ; to-morrow she would be the cravated Amazon of the riding house ; but, be she what she...fashionable promenaders swept the ground as she passed." This life lasted about two years, when just as the Prince, on his coming of age, was about to take... | |
 | Leslie Stephen, Sir Sidney Lee - 1897 - Počet stránok 514
...power of rouge and white lead. To-morrow she would be the cravatted Amazon of the riding-house ; hut be she what she might, the hats of the fashionable promenaders swept the ground as she passed ' (HAWKINS, Memoirs, ii. 24). A companion picture shows her at a later date seated, helplessly paralysed,... | |
 | Lewis Saul Benjamin - 1906 - Počet stránok 398
...Mary Robinson, written by Herself. to-morrow she would be the cravated Amazon of the riding-house ; but, be she what she might, the hats of the fashionable promenaders swept the ground as she passed." They were the most devoted of lovers, and all went merrily enough with them for a few months. Then... | |
 | John Fyvie - 1906 - Počet stránok 496
...utmost power of rouge and white lead ; to-morrow she would be the cravatted Amazon of the riding-house : but, be she what she might, the hats of the fashionable promenaders swept the ground as she passed.' At this time, too. she used to drive a light blue carriage, which the Prince had bought for her at... | |
 | Charles Collins - 1911 - Počet stránok 374
...utmost power of rouge and white lead; to-morrow she would be the cravatted Amazon of the riding-house; but, be she what she might, the hats of the fashionable promenaders swept the ground as she passed." The Prince of Wales reached his eighteenth birthday August 12, 1780; and on January 1, 1781, he was... | |
 | Albert Payson Terhune - 1918 - Počet stránok 368
...perhaps had been the dressed belle of Hyde Park, powdered, padded, painted. To-morrow she would be the Amazon of the riding house. But be she what she might,...fashionable promenaders swept the ground as she passed." The Prince was enjoying it all. He encouraged Mary to run into debt ; then gracefully got out of paying... | |
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