 To-day she was a paysanne, with her straw hat tied at the back of her head, looking as if too new to what she passed, to know what she looked at. Yesterday she, perhaps, had been the dressed belle of Hyde Park, trimmed, powdered, patched, painted to the...  Memoirs, Anecdotes, Facts, and Opinions - Seite 24von Laetitia Matilda Hawkins - 1824 - 415 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Laetitia Matilda Hawkins - 1824 - 442 Seiten
...figure; and as she proceeded in her course, she acquired a remarkable facility in adapting her deportment to her dress. When she was to be seen daily in St....whole story of all that was passing in the house she was quitting. of the day, three candidates and her husband were outriders; and this in the face of... | |
 | Percy Hetherington Fitzgerald - 1874 - 346 Seiten
...utmost power of rouge and white lead ; to-morrow she would be the cravated Amazon of the riding-house ; but be she what she might, the hats of the fashionable...high phaeton, in which she was driven by the favoured of the day. Three candidates and her husband were outriders : and this in the face of the congregations... | |
 | Dutton Cook - 1881 - 296 Seiten
...utmost power of rouge and white lead ; to-morrow she would be the cravated Amazon of the riding-house ; but be she what she might, the hats of the fashionable promenaders swept the ground as she passed." The prince's favourite had reached her apogee. It was very splendid shame — while it lasted. She... | |
 | Herbert Greenhough Smith - 1907 - 1026 Seiten
...utmost power of rouge and white lead. Tomorrow she would be the cravated Amazon of the riding-house ; but be she what she might, the hats of the fashionable promenaders swept the ground as she passed." Sarah Siddons, probably the greatest tragedienne England, if not the world, has ever seen, was the... | |
 | Mary Robinson - 1894 - 324 Seiten
...patched, painted to the utmost power of rouge and white lead ; to-morrow she would be the cravated Amazon of the riding house ; but, be she what she...fashionable promenaders swept the ground as she passed." This life lasted about two years, when just as the Prince, on his coming of age, was about to take... | |
 | Leslie Stephen, Sir Sidney Lee - 1897 - 514 Seiten
...power of rouge and white lead. To-morrow she would be the cravatted Amazon of the riding-house ; hut be she what she might, the hats of the fashionable promenaders swept the ground as she passed ' (HAWKINS, Memoirs, ii. 24). A companion picture shows her at a later date seated, helplessly paralysed,... | |
 | Lewis Saul Benjamin - 1906 - 398 Seiten
...Mary Robinson, written by Herself. to-morrow she would be the cravated Amazon of the riding-house ; but, be she what she might, the hats of the fashionable promenaders swept the ground as she passed." They were the most devoted of lovers, and all went merrily enough with them for a few months. Then... | |
 | John Fyvie - 1906 - 496 Seiten
...utmost power of rouge and white lead ; to-morrow she would be the cravatted Amazon of the riding-house : but, be she what she might, the hats of the fashionable promenaders swept the ground as she passed.' At this time, too. she used to drive a light blue carriage, which the Prince had bought for her at... | |
 | Charles Collins - 1911 - 374 Seiten
...utmost power of rouge and white lead; to-morrow she would be the cravatted Amazon of the riding-house; but, be she what she might, the hats of the fashionable promenaders swept the ground as she passed." The Prince of Wales reached his eighteenth birthday August 12, 1780; and on January 1, 1781, he was... | |
 | Albert Payson Terhune - 1918 - 368 Seiten
...perhaps had been the dressed belle of Hyde Park, powdered, padded, painted. To-morrow she would be the Amazon of the riding house. But be she what she might,...fashionable promenaders swept the ground as she passed." The Prince was enjoying it all. He encouraged Mary to run into debt ; then gracefully got out of paying... | |
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