 | Walter Bagehot - 1915 - 356 pages
...her ; I think her avarice, her art, and her vivacity are all increased. Her dress, like her language, is a galimatias of several countries ; the groundwork...needs no cap, no handkerchief, no gown, no petticoat, and no shoes. An old black laced hood represents the first ; the fur of a horseman's coat, which replaces... | |
 | Gamaliel Bradford - 1916 - 252 pages
...sordid avarice, which cannot be omitted, though hideous. "Lady Mary Wortley is arrived; I have seen her; I think her avarice, her dirt, and her vivacity are...groundwork, rags; and the embroidery nastiness. She wears no cap, no handkerchief, no gown, no petticoat, no shoes. An old black-laced hood represents... | |
 | Paul Elmer More - 1919 - 336 pages
...he had seen her in Florence twenty-two years earlier: Lady Mary Wortley is arrived; I have seen her; I think her avarice, her dirt, and her vivacity, are all increased. Her dress, like her language, is a galimatias of several countries; the ground-work, rags, and the embroidery, nastiness.... | |
 | Paul Elmer More - 1919 - 336 pages
...he had seen her in Florence twenty-two years earlier: Lady Mary Wortley is arrived; I have seen her; I think her avarice, her dirt, and her vivacity, are all increased. Her dress, like her language, is a galimatias of several countries; the ground-work, rags, and the embroidery, nastiness.... | |
 | Paul Elmer More - 1919 - 550 pages
...he had seen her in Florence twenty-two years earlier: Lady Mary Wortley is arrived; I have seen her; I think her avarice, her dirt, and her vivacity, are all increased. Her dress, like her language, is a galimatias of several countries; the ground-work, rags, and the embroidery, nastiness.... | |
 | Paul Elmer More - 1919 - 342 pages
...he had seen her in Florence twenty-two years earlier: Lady Mary Wortley is arrived; I have seen her; I think her avarice, her dirt, and her vivacity, are all increased. Her dress, like her language, is a galimatias of several countries; the ground- work, rags, and the embroidery, nastiness.... | |
 | Horace Walpole - 1926 - 338 pages
...and I have a notion I shall still be glad to see you. Lady Mary Wortley is arrived; I have seen her; I think her avarice, her dirt, and her vivacity, are...groundwork, rags; and the embroidery, nastiness. She wears no cap, no handkerchief, no gown, no petticoat, no shoes. An old black-laced hood represents... | |
 | 1908 - 976 pages
...had seen her in Florence twenty-two years earlier: "Lady Mary Wortley is arrived; I have seen her; I think her avarice, her dirt, and her vivacity, are all increased. Her dress, like her language, is a galimatias of several countries; the groundwork, rags, and the embroidery, nastiness.... | |
 | Helen Deutsch, Felicity Nussbaum - 2000 - 348 pages
...grotesqueries had reached. Indeed, he assured George Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley is arrived; I have seen her; I think her avarice, her dirt, and her vivacity are...groundwork, rags; and the embroidery, nastiness. She wears no cap, no handkerchief, no gown, no petticoat, no shoes. An old black laced hood represents... | |
 | Eneas Sweetland Dallas - 1870 - 788 pages
...which follow. After saying that she had arrived, and that he had seen her, he gives his impressions. " I think her avarice, her dirt, and her vivacity are...handkerchief, no gown, no petticoat, no shoes. An old black-laced hood represents the first ; the fur of a horseman's coat, which replaces the third, serves... | |
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Lady Mary Wortley is arrived; I have seen her; I think her avarice, her dirt, and her vivacity, are all increased. Her dress, like her languages, is a galimatias of several countries; the ground-work rags, and the embroidery nastiness. She needs no cap,... 
