 Right under the pump-room windows is the King's Bath ; a huge cistern, where you see the patients up to their necks in hot water. The ladies wear jackets and petticoats of brown linen, with chip hats, in which they fix their handkerchiefs to wipe the...  The Quarterly Review - Pagina 354geredigeerd door - 1912Volledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | Lewis Saul Benjamin - 1907 - 314 pagina’s
...water turned it yellow ; while the very observant Miss Lydia Melford wrote that : " The Ladies wore jackets and petticoats of brown linen, with chip hats, in which they place their handkerchiefs to wipe the sweat from the faces ; but, truly, whether it is owing to the... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1912 - 652 pagina’s
...sort of canvas ; this is the best linning, for the bath water will change any other yellow ' (op. tit. p. 13). Others say that the garments, originally white,...Through England on a Side-Saddle ; being the Diary of Celi* Fieuuea' (London : Field and Tuer, 1888), p. 12. look so flushed and so frightful, that I always... | |
 | Annette Brown Hopkins - 1915 - 824 pagina’s
...windows is the King's bath ; a huge cistern, where you see the> patients up to their necks in hot water. The ladies wear jackets and petticoats of brown linen,...heat of the water, or the nature of the dress, or all these causes together, they look so flushed, and so frightful, that I always turn my eyes another... | |
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