Famous Blue-stockingsJohn Lane Company, 1910 - 352 páginas |
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admiration appears assemblies Bas Bleu Bath Batheaston beauty blue Blue-Stocking Boscawen Boswell breakfast Burney's Chapone Chapone's character charm circle colour common-sense contemporary conversation coterie Delany's delicate delightful describes Dr Burney Dr Delany Dr Johnson dress Duchess of Portland Eighteenth Century Elizabeth Carter English entertainment Epictetus Evelina eyes famous fancy Fanny Burney fashion father French friendship garden Garrick genius give grace guests Hannah More's happy heart Hester Mulso Hogarth Horace Walpole hostess humour husband ideal imagination intellectual interest Irish Lady Louisa Stuart learning letters literary lived London Madame d'Arblay Madame de Genlis Madame Geoffrin marriage memoirs ment mind Miss Montagu ness never painted parties perfect personality picture Piozzi poem portrait possessed praise qualities Queen Salon says seems sense Shakespeare Sir Joshua Reynolds social society speaks spirit Streatham Place sweetness sympathy Thrale tion Vesey Vesey's woman women word Blue-Stocking writes
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Página 67 - And decks the goddess with the glittering spoil. This casket India's glowing gems unlocks, And all Arabia breathes from yonder box ; The tortoise here and elephant unite, Transformed to combs, the speckled, and the white.
Página 108 - The second caution to be given her (and which is most absolutely necessary) is to conceal whatever learning she attains, with as much solicitude as she would hide crookedness or lameness. The parade of it can only serve to draw on her the envy, and consequently the most inveterate hatred, of all he and she fools, which will certainly be at least three parts in four of all her acquaintance.
Página 143 - Down with her, Burney ! — down with her ! — spare her not ! — attack her, fight her, and down with her at once ! You are a rising wit, and she is at the top ; and when I was beginning the world, and was nothing and nobody, the joy of my life was to fire at all the established wits ! and then everybody loved to halloo me on.
Página 21 - We can do nothing without the blue stockings ; ' and thus by degrees the title was established.
Página 108 - Je consens qu'une femme ait des clartés de tout : Mais je ne lui veux point la passion choquante De se rendre savante afin d'être savante; Et j'aime que souvent, aux questions qu'on fait, Elle sache ignorer les choses qu'elle sait : De son étude enfin je veux qu'elle se cache, Et qu'elle ait du savoir sans vouloir qu'on le sache, Sans citer les auteurs, sans dire de grands mots, Et clouer de l'esprit à ses moindres propos.
Página 114 - I do not remember his common gait: he always entered a room in that style of affected delicacy which fashion had then made almost natural; chapeau bras between his hands, as if he wished to compress it, or under his arm; knees bent; and feet on tip-toe, as if afraid of a wet floor.
Página 129 - We are not here to sell a parcel of boilers and vats, but the potentiality of growing rich beyond the dreams of avarice.
Página 232 - Alas ! she has reversed experience, which I have long thought reverses its own utility by coming at the wrong end of our life when we do not want it. This author...
Página 65 - On Wednesday, April 29, I dined with him at Mr. Allan Ramsay's, where were Lord Binning, Dr. Robertson the historian, Sir Joshua Reynolds, and the Honourable Mrs. Boscawen, widow of the Admiral, and mother of the present Viscount Falmouth; of whom, if it be not presumptuous in me to praise her, I would say, that her manners are the most agreeable, and her conversation the best, of any lady with whom I ever had the happiness to be acquainted.
Página 318 - On y sait comme vont lune, étoile polaire, Vénus, Saturne et Mars, dont je n'ai point affaire; Et, dans ce vain savoir, qu'on va chercher si loin, On ne sait comme va mon pot, dont j'ai besoin.