Old Wine in New Bottles; Or, Spare Hours of a Student in ParisJ. M'Glashan, 1849 - 332 páginas |
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Página xii
... Ball of the American Minister . Expenses of the Embassy . Ball of the Cafe Tortoni 68 XI . The Prado . New Year's Day . Greetings in private Life . To Military Officers of the National Guards . Drummers ! Champs Elysees . Goat Carriages ...
... Ball of the American Minister . Expenses of the Embassy . Ball of the Cafe Tortoni 68 XI . The Prado . New Year's Day . Greetings in private Life . To Military Officers of the National Guards . Drummers ! Champs Elysees . Goat Carriages ...
Página 40
... ball of the season , and , as the peculiar manners of a people are apt to be conspicuous in their amusements , I shall attempt to give you a description of it . These balls are very frequent during the Carnival , and are held at various ...
... ball of the season , and , as the peculiar manners of a people are apt to be conspicuous in their amusements , I shall attempt to give you a description of it . These balls are very frequent during the Carnival , and are held at various ...
Página 44
... ball ? I must not forget to say that she polkaed à ravir . The next was pretty enough to be better . Without urging she gave me her address . In the course of the evening she sought for me , with the desire that I should give her some ...
... ball ? I must not forget to say that she polkaed à ravir . The next was pretty enough to be better . Without urging she gave me her address . In the course of the evening she sought for me , with the desire that I should give her some ...
Página 48
... ball- room in a grave yard , will not be surprised , if you find in this letter but a single step between my description of a dance and that of a funeral . Such is actual life . The house of feasting is often the very next door to the ...
... ball- room in a grave yard , will not be surprised , if you find in this letter but a single step between my description of a dance and that of a funeral . Such is actual life . The house of feasting is often the very next door to the ...
Página 50
... balls are suspended . The numerous crowds of joyous beings no longer throng the theatres and other dancing saloons . The reign of " Musard the Great , " the distinguished composer of quadrilles and dances , is at an end . At one of the ...
... balls are suspended . The numerous crowds of joyous beings no longer throng the theatres and other dancing saloons . The reign of " Musard the Great , " the distinguished composer of quadrilles and dances , is at an end . At one of the ...
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Palavras e frases frequentes
American balls beauty body Boston building celebrated character chiffonier church clothes College of France colour commenced Conciergerie contains Count of Paris crowd dance death disease dollars door dress edifice eight entirely erected eyes feet Felicien David flowers four France French friends galleries gardens girl give Gobelin Manufactory grand Grand Trianon guillotine hand head heart honour horses hospital hour hundred immense institution king labour ladies lectures letter live Louis Philippe Louis XIII Louis XIV marble Marie Antoinette ment Monsieur monument never o'clock Opera paintings palace Paris patients Paul Dubois peculiar Père la Chaise performed perhaps persons physician poor pounds present prison pupils quadrille remarkable royal seen side similar sous specimens stone streets taste thing thousand tion tomb twenty United walls waltz whole women young
Passagens conhecidas
Página 103 - I found not Cassio's kisses on her lips : He that is robb'd, not wanting what is stolen, Let him not know it, and he's not robb'd at all.
Página 245 - Baulk'd are the courts, and contest is no more. Despairing quacks with curses fled the place, And vile attorneys, now a useless race.
Página 113 - Tis thou, thrice sweet and gracious goddess, addressing myself to LIBERTY, whom all in public or in private worship, whose taste is grateful, and ever will be so, till NATURE herself shall change no tint of words can spot thy snowy mantle...
Página v - The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.
Página 98 - ... of his woollen or silken thread to that part of the picture he is copying. The object of the process being to present as smooth and delicate a surface as possible, all cuttings and fastenings are performed at the back. Hence the necessity of his working on the wrong side.
Página 224 - Here the o'erloaded slave flings down his burden From his gall'd shoulders; and, when the stern tyrant, With all his guards and tools of power about him, Is meditating new unheard-of hardships, Mocks his short arm, and quick as thought escapes, Where tyrants vex not, and the weary rest.
Página 234 - Nor number, nor example with him wrought To swerve from truth, or change his constant mind Though single.
Página 45 - France, there is a market, whither young girls resort, and stand hour after hour, with their flowing hair, rich and glossy, deriving additional lustre from the contrast with their naked shoulders. This is the resort of the merchant barbers, some of whom come even from England. The merchants pass along among them, examine the color, texture, evenness, and other qualities of the beautiful fleece, haggle for a sou, and finally buy.
Página 53 - When a guinguette adds an orchestra and a ball-room to its other attractions, it is called a bastringue.