Her dress, like her languages, is a galimatias of several countries ; the groundwork rags, and the embroidery nastiness. She needs no cap, no handkerchief, no gown, no petticoat, no shoes. An old black-laced hood represents the first ; the fur of a horseman's... Analectic Magazine, and Naval Chronicle - Página 21819Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
| William Jerdan, William Ring Workman, Frederick Arnold, John Morley, Charles Wycliffe Goodwin - 1818 - 862 páginas
...cap, no handkerchief, no gown, no petticoat, no shoes. An old blacklaced hood represents the first ; the fur of a horseman's coat, which replaces the third,...Florence, and she was expected there, we were drawing tortet fr'irgiliatwtfor her ; we literally drew ' I ii -.in. nil VilteiU .r-]K- ir - .' It would have... | |
| H. Biglow, Orville Luther Holley - 1818 - 500 páginas
...cap, no handkerchief, no gown, no petticoat, no shoes. An old black-laced hood represents the first ; the fur of a horseman's coat, which replaces the third,...Florence, and she was expected there, we were drawing literally drew were drawing sorlcs ^'irgiliantu for her ; we s expi irgilit * Insanam Vatem asplcies.'... | |
| 1819 - 552 páginas
...here he could tell you every one.' Adieu; I expect Mr. John and you with impatience. Yours ever, HOH. WALPOLE. Arlington-street, Feb. 2, 1762; I scolded...there, we were drawing sortes -virgilianas for her; we literaliy drew Insanam vatcm aspicies. It would nave been a stronger prophecy now, even than it was... | |
| Mrs. Jameson (Anna) - 1837 - 382 páginas
...cap, no handkerchief, no gown, no petticoat, no shoes ; an old black-laced hood represents the first ; the fur of a horseman's coat, which replaces the third,...the fourth ; and slippers act the part of the last." About six months after her arrival she died in the arms of her daughter, the Countess of Bute, of a... | |
| William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1837 - 606 páginas
...black-lace hood represents the first ; the fur of a horseman's coat, which replaces the third, represents the second ; a dimity petticoat is deputy, and officiates...the fourth ; and slippers act the part of the last." — Letters to Montagu, 4th edit. vol. vi. p. 211. And on the following June he thus announces the... | |
| Horace Walpole - 1842 - 580 páginas
...cap, no handkerchief, no gown, no petticoat, no shoes. An old black-laced hood represents the first; the fur of a horseman's coat, which replaces the third,...serves for the second ; a dimity petticoat is deputy, nnd officiates for the fourth; and slippers act the part of the last. When I was at Florence, and she... | |
| Horace Walpole (4th earl of Orford.) - 1842 - 580 páginas
...cap, no handkerchief, no gown, no petticoat, no shoes. An old black-laced hood represents the first; the fur of a horseman's coat, which replaces the third, serves for the second ; a dimity petticoat is deputv, and officiates for the fourth ; and slippers act the part of the last. When I was at Florence,... | |
| Horace Walpole - 1842 - 574 páginas
...horseman's coat, which replaces the third, serves for the second ; a dimity petticoat is deputy, nnd officiates for the fourth ; and slippers act the part of the last. When I was nt Florence, and she was expected there, we were drawing Sortes Virgili-anas for her; we literally... | |
| John Heneage Jesse - 1843 - 470 páginas
...cap, no handkerchief, no gown, no petticoat, no shoes. An old black-laced hood represents the first ; the fur of a horseman's coat, which replaces the third,...fourth ; and slippers act the part of the last."* Her family inform us that she had acquired foreign tastes and foreign habits, and consequently the... | |
| John Heneage Jesse - 1843 - 482 páginas
...cap, no handkerchief, no gown, no petticoat, no shoes. An old black-laced hood represents the first ; the fur of a horseman's coat, which replaces the third,...fourth ; and slippers act the part of the last."* Her family inform us that she had acquired foreign tastes and foreign habits, and consequently the... | |
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