Famous Blue-stockingsJohn Lane Company, 1910 - 352 עמודים |
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מונחים וביטויים נפוצים
admiration appears assemblies Bas Bleu Bath Batheaston beauty blue Blue-Stocking Blue-Stocking movement Boscawen Boswell breakfast Burney's Chapone Chapone's character charm colour contemporary conversation coteries Delany's delicate delightful describes domestic Dr Burney Dr Johnson dress Duchess of Portland Eighteenth Century Elizabeth Carter English entertainment Epictetus Evelina eyes famous fancy Fanny Burney French friendship garden Garrick genius give grace guests Hannah More's happy heart Hester Mulso Hogarth Horace Walpole hostesses humour husband ideal intellectual interest intimate Lady Louisa Stuart learning letters Lichfield literary lived London Lord Lyttleton Madame d'Arblay Madame de Staël marriage memoirs ment mind Monsieur d'Arblay Montagu nature never painted parties perfect perhaps personality picture Piozzi poem portrait possessed praise qualities Queen Salon says seems sense Sir Joshua Reynolds Soame Jenyns social society spirit Streatham Place sweetness sympathy Thrale tion translation verses Vesey Vesey's woman women writes wrote
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עמוד 57 - 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.
עמוד 133 - 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.
עמוד 98 - 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.
עמוד 265 - April 26. 1752, being after 12 at Night of the 25th. " O Lord! Governor of heaven and earth, in whose hands are embodied and departed spirits, if thou hast ordained the souls of the dead to minister to the living, and appointed my departed wife to have care of me, grant that I may enjoy the good effects of her attention and ministration, whether exercised by appearance, impulses, dreams, or in any other manner agreeable to thy government. Forgive my presumption, enlighten my ignorance, and however...
עמוד 98 - 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.
עמוד 9 - We can do nothing without the blue stockings ; ' and thus by degrees the title was established.
עמוד 297 - Pascal or any of the Port Royal authors, alleging, that as a good Protestant, I ought to abstain from books written by Catholics. I was beginning to stand upon my defence, when he took me with both hands, and with a tear running down his cheeks, 'Child...
עמוד 104 - 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.
עמוד 121 - We are not here to sell a parcel of boilers and vats, but the potentiality of growing rich beyond the dreams of avarice.
עמוד 205 - Here closed in death, th' attentive eyes, That saw the manners in the face.' Mr. Hogarth, among the variety of kindnesses shown to me when I was too young to have a proper sense of them, was used to be very earnest that I should obtain the acquaintance, and if possible, the friendship of Dr. Johnson , whose conversation was, to the talk of other men, like Titian's painting compared to Hudson's, he said : ' but don't you tell people now that I say so...