 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 groundwork rags, and the embroidery nastiness. She needs no cap,...  The Quarterly review - Page 1911837Full view - About this book
 | Paul Elmer More - English wit and humor - 1919 - 336 pages
...pendant to his portrait of her as he had seen her in Florence twenty-two years earlier: Lady Mary Wortley is arrived; I have seen her; I think her avarice,...ground-work, 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 - English wit and humor - 1919 - 334 pages
...pendant to his portrait of her as he had seen her in Florence twenty-two years earlier: Lady Mary Wortley is arrived; I have seen her; I think her avarice,...language, is a galimatias of several countries; the ground- work, rags, and the embroidery, nastiness. She wears no cap, no handkerchief, no gown, no petticoat,... | |
 | Paul Elmer More - American literature - 1919 - 342 pages
...pendant to his portrait of her as he had seen her in Florence twenty-two years earlier: Lady Mary Wortley is arrived; I have seen her; I think her avarice,...language, is a galimatias of several countries; the ground- work, rags, and the embroidery, nastiness. She wears no cap, no handkerchief, no gown, no petticoat,... | |
 | Paul Elmer More - English wit and humor - 1919 - 550 pages
...a galimatias of several countries; the ground-work, rags, and the embroidery, nastiness. She wears no cap, no 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... | |
 | Horace Walpole - Authors, English - 1926 - 338 pages
...letters, you are good company, 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 vivacity, are all increased. Her dress, like her languages, is a galimatias of several countries; the groundwork, rags; and the embroidery, nastiness.... | |
 | Horace Walpole - Authors, English - 1926 - 338 pages
...and I have a notion I shall still be glad to see you. Lady Mary Wortley is arrived } I have seen herj I think her avarice, her dirt, and her vivacity, are all increased. Her dress, like her languages, is a galimatias of several countries} the groundwork, rags; and the embroidery, nastiness.... | |
 | American essays - 1908 - 976 pages
...to his portrait of her as he had seen her in Florence twenty-two years earlier: "Lady Mary Wortley is arrived; I have seen her; I think her avarice,...groundwork, rags, and the embroidery, nastiness. She wears no cap, no handkerchief, no gown, no petticoat, no shoes. An old black-laced hood represents... | |
 | Helen Deutsch, Felicity Nussbaum - Literary Criticism - 2000 - 348 pages
...level her physical grotesqueries had reached. Indeed, he assured George Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley is arrived; I have seen her; I think her avarice,...her vivacity are all increased. Her dress, like her languages, is a galimatias of several countries; the groundwork, rags; and the embroidery, nastiness.... | |
 | American essays - 1908 - 1022 pages
...his portrait of her as he had seen her in Florence twenty-two years earlier : — " Lady Mary Wortley is arrived; I have seen her; I think her avarice,...groundwork, rags, and the embroidery, nastiness. She wears no cap, no handkerchief, no gown, no petticoat, no shoes. An old black-laced hood represents... | |
 | Books - 1819 - 578 pages
...all increased. Her dress, like her languages, is a galimatias of several countries; the. ground work, rags, and the embroidery, nastiness. She needs no...handkerchief, no gown, no petticoat, no shoes. An old black-laced hood represents the fiist, the fur of a horseman's coat, which replaces the third, serves... | |
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