Right under the pump-room windows is the King's Bath ; a huge cistern, where you see the patients up to their necks in hot water. The ladies wear jackets and petticoats of brown linen, with chip hats, in which they fix their handkerchiefs to wipe the... The Quarterly Review - Page 354edited by - 1912Full view - About this book
| 1896 - 928 pages
...described as "a huge cistern, where you see the patients of both soxes up to their necks in hot water. The ladies wear jackets and petticoats of brown linen,...chip hats, in which they fix their handkerchiefs." Close to the pump-room was a coffeehouse for ladies, the headquarters of gossip and scandal. But the... | |
| 1896 - 842 pages
..."a huge cistern, where yon see the patients of both sexes up to their necks in hot water. The ladles wear jackets and petticoats of brown linen, with chip hats. in which they fix their handkerchiefs." Close to the pump-room was a coffeehouse for ladles, the headquarters of gossip and scandal. But the... | |
| Susan Hale - 1898 - 336 pages
...windows is the King's Bath '; a huge cistern, where you see the patients up to their necks in hot water. The ladies wear jackets and petticoats of brown linen,...whether it is owing to the steam that surrounds them, or to the heat of the water, or the nature of the dress, or to all three causes together, they look so... | |
| Tobias Smollett - 1899 - 368 pages
...windows, is the King's bath ; a huge cistern, where you see the patients up to their necks in hot water. The ladies wear jackets and petticoats of brown linen,...of the dress, or to all these causes together, they look so Bushed and so frightful, that I always turn my eyes another way. — My aunt, who says every... | |
| Tobias George Smollett - 1902 - 680 pages
...windows is the King's Bath ; a huge cistern, where you see the patients up to their necks in hot water. The ladies wear jackets and petticoats of brown linen,...of the dress, or to all these causes together, they look so flushed, and so frightful, that I always turn my eyes another way. — My aunt, who says every... | |
| Tobias Smollett - 1902 - 226 pages
...windows is the king's bath ; a huge cistern, where you see the patients up to their necks in hot water. The ladies wear jackets and petticoats of brown linen,...of the dress, or to all these causes together, they look so flushed and so frightful, that I always turn my eyes another way. My aunt, who says every person... | |
| Alfred Barbeau - 1904 - 452 pages
...published in 1798, the bathers are represented with threecornered hats on their heads (plate 7). 1 " The ladies wear jackets and petticoats of brown linen,...handkerchiefs, to wipe the sweat from their faces . . ." (" Humphry Clinker," Lydia Melford, April 26). ^1724, Defoe merely says : " dress'd in your... | |
| A. Barbeau - 1904 - 426 pages
...Bath et publiée en 1798, les baigneurs sont représentés le tricorne sur la tête (planche?). 2. « The ladies wear jackets and petticoats of brown linen,...handkerchiefs, to wipe the sweat from their faces... » )Humphry Clinker, Lydia Melford, Ж avril); cf. ci-dessus, chap, i, p. 19, note 4. En 1724, De foe... | |
| Alfred Barbeau - 1904 - 432 pages
...Bath et publiée en 1798, les baigneurs sont représentés le tricorne sur la tête (planche 7). 2. * The ladies wear jackets and petticoats of brown linen, with chip hats, in which they fix their handkerehicfs, to wipe the sweat from their faces... » tHumphry Clinker, Lydia Melford, 26 avril);... | |
| Lewis Saul Benjamin - 1907 - 314 pages
...water turned it yellow ; while the very observant Miss Lydia Melford wrote that : " The Ladies wore jackets and petticoats of brown linen, with chip hats, in which they place their handkerchiefs to wipe the sweat from the faces ; but, truly, whether it is owing to the... | |
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