The British Novelists: With an Essay, and Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, Volume 49, Part 1F. C. and J. Rivington, 1820 - English literature |
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... dress and frivolous extravagance , fails in her matrimonial expectations ( as many do merely from not beginning to speculate in time ) . She finds herself at five or six and thirty a burden to her friends , destitute of the means of ...
... dress and frivolous extravagance , fails in her matrimonial expectations ( as many do merely from not beginning to speculate in time ) . She finds herself at five or six and thirty a burden to her friends , destitute of the means of ...
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... dress and frivolous extravagance , fails in her matrimonial expectations ( as many do merely from not beginning to speculate in time ) . She finds herself at five or six and thirty a burden to her friends , destitute of the means of ...
... dress and frivolous extravagance , fails in her matrimonial expectations ( as many do merely from not beginning to speculate in time ) . She finds herself at five or six and thirty a burden to her friends , destitute of the means of ...
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... dress - consult her , my dear , and do not , by an ill- judged economy , counteract my views - apropos-- I have no objection to your being presented at court . You will , of course , have credit with all her lady- ship's trades - people ...
... dress - consult her , my dear , and do not , by an ill- judged economy , counteract my views - apropos-- I have no objection to your being presented at court . You will , of course , have credit with all her lady- ship's trades - people ...
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... dresses , and Lady Delacour's bon mots : every thing that her ladyship said was repeated as witty ; every thing that her ladyship wore was imitated as fashionable . Female wit sometimes depends on the beauty of its possessor , for its ...
... dresses , and Lady Delacour's bon mots : every thing that her ladyship said was repeated as witty ; every thing that her ladyship wore was imitated as fashionable . Female wit sometimes depends on the beauty of its possessor , for its ...
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... dress , gold fringe , and laurel wreaths into the bargain , that you don't guess right.- I hope you don't think of going to this birthnight , Lady Delacour ? said his lordship . I'll give you six guesses , and I'll bet you don't come ...
... dress , gold fringe , and laurel wreaths into the bargain , that you don't guess right.- I hope you don't think of going to this birthnight , Lady Delacour ? said his lordship . I'll give you six guesses , and I'll bet you don't come ...
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Page 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.
Page 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.