But literally here the evenings and nights are so charming and so warm, one can't avoid 'em. Did I tell you Lady Mary Wortley is here ? She laughs at my Lady Walpole, scolds my Lady Pomfret, and is laughed at by the whole town. Her dress, her avarice,... A History of the Four Georges - Page 198de Justin McCarthy, Justin Huntly McCarthy - 1884Affichage du livre entier - À propos de ce livre
| Horace Walpole (4th earl of Orford.) - 1837 - 462 pages
...here ? She laughs at my lady Walpole, scolds my lady Pomfret, and is laughed at by the whole town. Her dress, her avarice, and her impudence must amaze...locks, that hang loose, never combed or curled; an old mazarine blue wrapper, that gapes open and discovers a canvass petticoat. Her face swelled violently... | |
| Horace Walpole - 1837 - 462 pages
...here ? She laughs at my lady Walpole, scolds my lady Pomfret, and is laughed at by the whole town. Her dress, her avarice, and her impudence must amaze...locks, that hang loose, never combed or curled; an old mazarine blue wrapper, that gapes open and discovers a canvass petticoat. Her face swelled violently... | |
| William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1837 - 602 pages
...Pomfret, and is laughed at by the whole town. Her dress, her avarice, and her impudence, must amuse any one that never heard her name. She wears a foul mob [cap], that does not cover her greasy black locks that hang loose, — never combed nor curled ; an... | |
| Horace Walpole - 1842 - 594 pages
...here ? She laughs at my Lady Walpole, scolds my Lady Pomfret, and is laughed at by the whole town." Her dress, her avarice, and her impudence must amaze...locks, that hang loose, never combed or curled ; an old mazarine blue wrapper, that gapes open and discovers a canvass petticoat. Her face swelled violently... | |
| Horace Walpole - 1842 - 592 pages
...here ? She laughs at my Lady Walpole, scolds my Lady Pomfret, and is laughed at by the whole town.* Her dress, her avarice, and her impudence must amaze...locks, that hang loose, never combed or curled ; an old mazarine blue wrapper, that gapes open and discovers a canvass petticoat. Her face swelled violently... | |
| John Heneage Jesse - 1843 - 482 pages
...here ? She laughs at my Lady Walpole, scolds my Lady Pomfret, and is laughed at by the whole town. Her dress, her avarice, and her impudence, must amaze...locks that hang loose, never combed or curled ; an old mazarineblue wrapper, that gapes open and discovers a canvass petticoat. Her face swelled violently... | |
| Eliot Warburton - 1851 - 574 pages
...here ? She laughs at my Lady Walpole, scolds my Lady Pomfret, and is laughed at by the whole town. Her dress, her avarice, and her impudence must amaze...black locks, that hang loose, never combed or curled ; on old Mazarine blue wrapper, that gapes open and discovers a canvass petticoat. Her face swelled... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1854 - 338 pages
...family connexions biassed from his birth against her. He mentions the wandering lady's eccentricities. " Her dress, her avarice, and her impudence, must amaze...locks, that hang loose, never combed or curled, an old mazarine blue wrapper, that gapes open and discovers a canvas petticoat. Her face swelled violently... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1854 - 340 pages
...family connexions biassed from his birth against her. He mentions the wandering lady's eccentricities. " Her dress, her avarice, and her impudence, must amaze...locks, that hang loose, never combed or curled, an old mazarine blue wrapper, that gapes open and discovers a canvas petticoat. Her face swelled violently... | |
| Dr. Doran (John) - 1854 - 436 pages
...adored. Walpole met her at Florence in 1740, and there, he says, she was " laughed at by the whole town. Her dress, her avarice, and her impudence must amaze...locks, that hang loose, never combed or curled ; an old mazarine blue wrapper, that gapes open and discovers a canvas petticoat. Her face swelled violently... | |
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