 | Richard Graves - 1820 - 330 Seiten
...a lady, nor more insipid than than of a gentleman, at Bath; the one is a constant series of Sirting and gadding about; the other of sauntering from place...conversation of the former ; the news of the day, the price offish, the history of the preceding night at the tavern, or savoury anticipations of their next debauch,... | |
 | Christopher Anstey - 1830 - 270 Seiten
...company. In short, nothing can be more trifling than the life of a lady, nor more insipid than that of a gentleman, at Bath; the one is a constant series of flirting and gadding about,—the other of sauntering from place to place, without any scheme or pursuit. Scandal, or fashions,... | |
 | Lewis Saul Benjamin - 1907 - 314 Seiten
...company. In short, nothing can be more trifling than the life of a lady, nor more insipid than that of a gentleman, at Bath ; the one is a constant series...furnish out the morning entertainment of the latter." * In addition to the round of amusements mentioned, there were, of course, occasional private parties,... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1912 - 652 Seiten
...real chagrins. . . . Nothing can be more trifling than the life of a lady, nor more insipid than that of a gentleman, at Bath ; the one is a constant series...furnish out the morning entertainment of the latter.' Elizabeth Montagu is also severe in her strictures. ' I think no place can be less agreeable,' she... | |
 | Richard Graves - 1926 - 300 Seiten
...company. In short, nothing can be more trifling than the life of a lady, nor more insipid than that of a gentleman, at Bath : the one is a constant series...without any scheme or pursuit. Scandal or fashions engrofs the conversation of the former ; the news of the day, the price offish, the history of the... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1912 - 638 Seiten
...real chagrins. . . . Nothing can be more trifling than the life of a lady, nor more insipid than that of a gentleman, at Bath ; the one is a constant series...furnish out the morning entertainment of the latter.' Elizabeth Montagu is also severe in her strictures. ' I think no place can be less agreeable,' she... | |
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... to the foolish ambition of being seen in, what is called, good company. In short, nothing can be more trifling than the life of a Lady, nor more insipid than that of a Gentleman, at Bath : the one is a constant series of flirting and gadding about... 