 The Duchess hath been a good comely woman ; but her dress so antick, and her deportment so ordinary, that I do not like her at all, nor did I hear her say anything that was worth hearing, but that she was full of admiration, all admiration.  Essays in Biography - Pagina 261door Charles Whibley - 1913 - 311 pagina’sVolledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | Samuel Pepys - 1906 - 736 pagina’s
...black little eyes, but otherwise a very ordinary woman I do think, but they say sings well. The Duchess hath been a good, comely woman ; but her dress so...deportment so ordinary, that I do not like her at all, nor do I hear her say anything that was worth hearing, but that she was full of admiration, all admiration.... | |
 | Esther Meynell - 1909 - 412 pagina’s
...black little eyes, but otherwise a very ordinary woman I do think, but they say sings well. The Duchess hath been a good comely woman ; but her dress so antick,...but that she was full of admiration, all admiration. Several fine experiments were shown her of colours, loadstones, microscopes, and of liquors : among... | |
 | Charles Wells Moulton - 1910 - 812 pagina’s
...little eyes, but otherwise but a very ordinary woman, I do think, but they say sings well. The Duchesse hath been a good, comely woman ; but her dress so...but that she was full of admiration, all admiration. Several fine experiments were shown her of colours, loadstones, microscopes, and of liquors. . . .... | |
 | Flora Masson - 1914 - 344 pagina’s
...so much talk among the gallants. The Duchess herself, in her "antick" dress, disappointed Pepys : " nor did I hear her say anything that was worth hearing,...that she was full of admiration, all admiration." The Philosophers showed her all their best experiments — " of colours, loadstones, microscopes, and... | |
 | 1878 - 492 pagina’s
...little eyes, but otherwise a very ordinary woman I do think, but they say sings well. The Duchesse hath been a good comely woman ; but her dress so antick, and her deportment so ordinary, * An instrument to facilitate hearing. No allusion to this can be found in the ' Philosophical Transactions.'... | |
 | Henry Ten Eyck Perry - 1918 - 360 pagina’s
...little eyes, but otherwise but a very ordinary woman I do think, but they say sings well. The Duchesse hath been a good, comely woman; but her dress so antick,...that I do not like her at all, nor did I hear her say any thing that was worth hearing, but that she was full of admiration, all admiration. Several fine... | |
 | Samuel Pepys - 1926 - 652 pagina’s
...little eyes, but otherwise but a very ordinary woman I do think, but they say sings well. The Duchesse hath been a good, comely woman; but her dress so antick...that I do not like her at all, nor did I hear her say any thing that was worth hearing, but that she was full of admiration, r SO TO BED 1667] PEPYS WORTH... | |
 | Samuel Pepys - 1927 - 720 pagina’s
...antick and her deportment so ordinary that I do not like her at all, nor did I hear her say any thing that was worth hearing, but that she was full of admiration, all admiration. Several fine experiments were shown her of colours, loadstones, microscopes, and of liquors : among... | |
 | Edward Arthur Fitch, William Herbert Dalton, Charlotte Fell-Smith - 1898 - 288 pagina’s
...of whom so much talk is that her lady would bid her show her face and kill the gallants. The Duchess hath been a good, comely woman, but her dress so antick...ordinary, that I do not like her at all, nor did I hear anything that was worth hearing but that she was full of admiration — all admiration. Several fine... | |
 | Amy Boesky - 1996 - 256 pagina’s
...the Spring and Weight of the Air (1669). By permission of the Houghton Library, Harvard University. not like her at all, nor did I hear her say anything that was worth hearing, hut that she was full of admiration, all admiration. . . . After they had shown her many experiments,... | |
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