 ... their whole business abroad (as far as I can perceive) being to buy new clothes, in which they shine in some obscure coffee-house, where they are sure of meeting only one another ; and after the important conquest of some waiting gentlewoman of an...  The Grand Tour in the Eighteenth Century - Pagina 108di William Edward Mead - 1914 - 478 pagineVisualizzazione completa - Informazioni su questo libro
 | Lady Mary Wortley Montagu - 1887 - 622 pagine
...nurses taught them ; their whole business abroad (as far as I can perceive) being to buy new clothes, in which they shine in some obscure coffee-house,...conquest of some waiting gentlewoman of an opera queen, whom perhaps they remember as long as they live, return to England excellent judges of men and manners.... | |
 | Lady Mary Wortley Montagu - 1890 - 310 pagine
...nurses taught them, their whole business abroad (as far as I can perceive) being to buy new clothes, — in which they shine in some obscure coffee-house where...conquest of some waiting gentlewoman of an opera queen, whom perhaps they remember as long as they live, return to England excellent judges of men and manners.... | |
 | Lady Mary Wortley Montagu - 1892 - 342 pagine
...nurses taught them ; their whole business abroad (as far as I can perceive) being to buy new clothes, in which they shine in some obscure coffee-house, where they are sure of meeting only one another. ... I find the spirit of patriotism so strong in me every time I see them, that I look on them as the... | |
 | Lady Mary Wortley Montagu - 1906 - 572 pagine
...nurses taught them ; their whole business abroad (as far as I can perceive) being to buy new clothes, in which they shine in some obscure coffee-house,...conquest of some waiting gentlewoman of an opera queen, whom perhaps they remember as long as they live, return to England excellent judges of men and manners.... | |
 | Emily Morse] [Symonds - 1907 - 630 pagine
...master taught them; their whole business abroad being (as far as I can perceive) to buy new clothes, in which they shine in some obscure coffee-house,...conquest of some waiting gentlewoman of an opera queen, whom perhaps thfy remember as long as they live, return to England excellent judges of men and manners.... | |
 | George Paston - 1907 - 640 pagine
...master taught them ; their whole business abroad being (as far as I can perceive) to buy new clothes, in which they shine in some obscure coffee-house,...conquest of some waiting gentlewoman of an opera queen, whom perhaps they remember as long as they live, return to England excellent judges of men and manners.... | |
 | Richard Leppert - 1993 - 284 pagine
...her friend Lady Pomfret, well described the behavior of English boys turned loose on the Continent: Their whole business abroad (as far as I can perceive)...only one another; and after the important conquest of 46 Samuel Alken (1756-1815), after Thomas Rowlandson, An Italian I.amily (1785), aquatint, 33 X 45... | |
 | Ian Littlewood - 1995 - 288 pagine
...stream of brainless and boorish English youths descending on Venice in the course of their Grand Tour: Here are inundations of them broke in upon us this...live, return to England excellent judges of men and manners.31 CAMPO SANT' ANGELO From the Calle Mocenigo we can make our way via the Piscina San Samuele... | |
 | Bruce Redford - 1996 - 156 pagine
...fidelity to the language their nurses taught them." "Their whole business abroad," Lady Mary concludes, is "to buy new cloaths, in which they shine in some obscure...conquest of some waiting gentlewoman of an opera Queen . . . [they] return to England excellent judges of men and manners."36 The most corrosive anxieties,... | |
 | Manfred Pfister - 1996 - 572 pagine
...nurses taught them; their whole business abroad (as far as I can perceive) being to buy new clothes, in which they shine in some obscure coffee-house,...conquest of some waiting gentlewoman of an opera queen, whom perhaps they remember as long as they live, return to England excellent judges of men and manners.... | |
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