London Characters: Or, Fashions and Customs, of the Present Century, Том 1booksellers in Bondstreet, 1809 - 3 страници |
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... MRS . PERCIVAL . " Sunt Delicta tamen quibus ignovisse velimus . " HOR . Art . Poet . THIS lady is a fortunate ... Miss Smythe , was more inclined to the petite , than the ma- Deseription of her Person . jestic , and yet , MRS PERCIVAL.
... MRS . PERCIVAL . " Sunt Delicta tamen quibus ignovisse velimus . " HOR . Art . Poet . THIS lady is a fortunate ... Miss Smythe , was more inclined to the petite , than the ma- Deseription of her Person . jestic , and yet , MRS PERCIVAL.
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... it would not do . Miss Smythe , by her imitations of one who had so long and so justly been the favourite of the town , pleased the indis- VOL . I. N She changes her Manner . criminating multitude : but the MRS . PERCIVAL . 265.
... it would not do . Miss Smythe , by her imitations of one who had so long and so justly been the favourite of the town , pleased the indis- VOL . I. N She changes her Manner . criminating multitude : but the MRS . PERCIVAL . 265.
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... Miss Smythe was getting bold and vulgar . When first she played Euphrosyne , in Milton's Comus , she had the true idea of the character ; agile , various , playful , not languishingly but gaily voluptuous ; or , as the French express it ...
... Miss Smythe was getting bold and vulgar . When first she played Euphrosyne , in Milton's Comus , she had the true idea of the character ; agile , various , playful , not languishingly but gaily voluptuous ; or , as the French express it ...
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... Miss Smythe was a fine dancer ; and we allow her on those occasions , especially on a benefit night , the display of so beau- tiful an ancle , enveloped in pink silk stock- ings , profusely spangled with silver . But we are assured ...
... Miss Smythe was a fine dancer ; and we allow her on those occasions , especially on a benefit night , the display of so beau- tiful an ancle , enveloped in pink silk stock- ings , profusely spangled with silver . But we are assured ...
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... lady , she had a formidable rival to deal with : the endowments of her mind , and her literary talents , had rendered her justly cele- brated . She was , like Miss Smythe , ungifted Her Rival . by fortune , and very much her N 3 MRS ...
... lady , she had a formidable rival to deal with : the endowments of her mind , and her literary talents , had rendered her justly cele- brated . She was , like Miss Smythe , ungifted Her Rival . by fortune , and very much her N 3 MRS ...
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