Melantha is as finished an impertinent as ever fluttered in a drawing-room, and seems to contain the most complete system of female foppery, that could possibly be crowded into the tortured form of a fine lady. The Life of John Dyrden - Página 121por Walter Scott - 1882Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
| Bonamy Dobrée - 1924 - 196 páginas
...finished an impertinent as ever flutter'd in a drawing room, and seems to contain the most complete system of female foppery that could possibly be crowded into the tortured form of a fine lady. Her language, dress, motion, manners, soul, and body, are in a continual hurry to be something more... | |
| Dorothy Senior - 1928 - 350 páginas
...finished an impertinent as ever fluttered in a drawing-room, and seems to contain the most complete system of female foppery that could possibly be crowded into the tortured form of a fine lady. Her language, dress, motion, manners, soul and body, are in a continual hurry to do something more... | |
| J. L. Styan - 1975 - 272 páginas
...finished an impertinent, as ever fluttered in a drawingroom, and seems to contain the most compleat system of female foppery, that could possibly be crowded into the tortured form of a fine lady. Her language, dress, motion, manners, soul, and body, are in a continual hurry to be something more,... | |
| J. L. Styan - 1986 - 292 páginas
...swan upon waving water, (p. 96) In this performance Gibber believed he had seen 'the most complete 124 system of female foppery that could possibly be crowded into the tortured form of a fine lady.' Restoration playwrights are conscious of the workings of coquetry, and demonstrate it in action on... | |
| Maggs Bros - 1926 - 932 páginas
...fashionable raillery, and the character of Melautha is pronounced by Gibber to exhibit the most complete system of female foppery that could possibly be crowded into the tortured form of a fine lady. 518 CEoipus : a Tragedy. FIRST EDITION. Small 410. New boards. London, 1679. ^8 8s The first and third... | |
| Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1827 - 610 páginas
...finished an impertinent as ever flourished in a drawing-- room, and seems to contain the moat complete system of female foppery that could possibly be crowded into the tortured form of a fine lady : her language, dress, motion, manners, soul, and body, are in a continual hurry to be something more... | |
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