 | 1815 - 442 Seiten
...gentlemen in their colours', and statues in their whiteness, and busy waiters, and painted wallsk anil sparkling delicacies of every kind, are mingled, and...effect of a crowd to the experience of accommodation. Leaving these scenes where pleasure puts on her gayest trappings, and appears in all her smiles and... | |
 | 1816 - 926 Seiten
...decoration and enjoyment Ladies and gentlemen in their colours, and statues in their whiteness; and busy waiters, and painted walls, and sparkling delicacies...appearance to infinity, by numerous mirrors, which add vastne&s to elegance, and the effect of a crowd to the experience of accommodation, in one of these,... | |
 | 1819 - 236 Seiten
...decoration and enjoyment. Ladies and gentlemen in their colours, and statues ia their whiteness, and busy waiters, and painted walls, and sparkling delicacies...numerous mirrors, which add vastness to elegance, and the semblance of a crowd to the reality of accommodation. The Cafe Montausier, after having been used for... | |
 | William Bingley - 1821 - 394 Seiten
...kind, are mingled and extend? d, in appearance, to infinity, by numerous mirrors, which add vastriess to elegance, and the effect of a crowd to the experience of accommodation. In one of these, the Cafe des mille colonnes — (so called because its columns are reflected in glasses till they become thousands)... | |
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Colonnes (so called because its columns are reflected in glasses till they become thousands) a priestess of the place presides, with even more than the u.sual pomp of such persons. She is a fine woman, and admits the stare of her visitors as a part of... 