The British Novelists: With an Essay, and Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, Volume 49,Deel 1F. C. and J. Rivington, 1820 |
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Pagina 8
... laughed at -you understand me . It would be as well , flat or not flat , my Lady Delacour , if your ladyship would attend more to your own conduct , and less to others ! - To that of others - his lordship means , if he means any thing ...
... laughed at -you understand me . It would be as well , flat or not flat , my Lady Delacour , if your ladyship would attend more to your own conduct , and less to others ! - To that of others - his lordship means , if he means any thing ...
Pagina 20
... laughed affectedly at her own whimsi- calities , and declared that she could always dress herself better without a glass than with one . All this went off admirably well with every body but Miss Portman ; she could not help thinking it ...
... laughed affectedly at her own whimsi- calities , and declared that she could always dress herself better without a glass than with one . All this went off admirably well with every body but Miss Portman ; she could not help thinking it ...
Pagina 23
... laugh , except behind her mask , said Clarence Hervey . Far be it from her to laugh at those follies which she must for ever deplore ! said Belinda in a feigned voice - What miseries spring from these ill - suited marriages ! The ...
... laugh , except behind her mask , said Clarence Hervey . Far be it from her to laugh at those follies which she must for ever deplore ! said Belinda in a feigned voice - What miseries spring from these ill - suited marriages ! The ...
Pagina 25
... laugh . Laugh on , my merry men all ! cried Clarence , but the devil's in it if I don't know my own mind bet- ter than any of you- you don't imagine I go to Lady Delacour's to look for a wife ? -- Belinda Portman's a good pretty girl ...
... laugh . Laugh on , my merry men all ! cried Clarence , but the devil's in it if I don't know my own mind bet- ter than any of you- you don't imagine I go to Lady Delacour's to look for a wife ? -- Belinda Portman's a good pretty girl ...
Pagina 29
... and hope I didn't hurt ye , ' you will be trod under foot . - Now , you'll meet those young men continually , who took the liberty of laughing at your D 3 MASKS . 29 appeared-little did I know what gentlemen thought ...
... and hope I didn't hurt ye , ' you will be trod under foot . - Now , you'll meet those young men continually , who took the liberty of laughing at your D 3 MASKS . 29 appeared-little did I know what gentlemen thought ...
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Pagina 202 - Still to be neat, still to be drest, As you were going to a feast ; Still to be powdered, still perfumed: Lady, it is to be presumed, Though art's hid causes are not found, All is not sweet, all is not sound. Give me a look, give me a face; That makes simplicity a grace ; Robes loosely flowing, hair as free : Such sweet neglect more taketh me, Than all the adulteries of art ; They strike mine eyes, but not my heart.
Pagina 282 - Drapery, if you ask me my opinion," cried Mrs Freke, "drapery, whether wet or dry, is the most confoundedly indecent thing in the world." "That depends on public opinion, I allow," said Mr Percival. "The Lacedaemonian ladies, who were veiled only by public opinion, were better covered from profane eyes, than some English ladies are in wet drapery.