"Dirty fellow!" exclaimed the Captain, seizing both her wrists, "hark you, Mrs. Frog, you'd best hold your tongue; for I must make... bold to tell you, if you don't, that I shall make no ceremony of tripping you out of the window, and there you may lie in the mud till some of your Monseers come to help you out of it."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I have a vast deal to say, and shall give all this morning to my pen. As to my plan of writing every evening the adventures of the... day, I find it impracticable; for the diversions here are so very late, that if I begin my letters after them, I could not go to bed at all.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We went to Ranelagh. It is a charming place; and the brilliancy of the lights, on my first entrance, made me almost think I was in... some enchanted castle or fairy palace, for all looked like magic to me.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Mrs. Mirvan says we are not to walk in [St. James's] Park again next Sunday ... because there is better company in Kensington Gard...ens; but really, if you had seen how every body was dressed, you would not think that possible.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Well may Mr. [David] Garrick be so celebrated, so universally admired--I had not any idea of so great a performer. Such ease! such... vivacity in his manner! such grace in his motions! such fire and meaning in his eyes!--I could hardly believe he had studied a written part, for every word seemed uttered from the impulse of the moment. ... his voice--so clear, so melodious, yet so wonderfully various in its tones!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
At the milliners, the ladies we met were so much dressed, that I should rather have imagined they were making visits than purchase...s. But what diverted me most was, that we were more frequently served by men than by women; and such men! so finical, so affected! they seemed to understand every part of a woman's dress better than we do ourselves; and they recommended caps and ribbons with an air of so much importance, that I wished to ask them how long they had left off wearing them.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Another gentleman ... desired to know if I was engaged, or would honour him with my hand [to dance]. So he was pleased to say, tho...ugh I am sure I know not what honour he could receive from me; but these sort of expressions, I find, are used as words of course, without any distinction of persons, or study of propriety.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The gentlemen [at a ball], as they passed and repassed, looked as if they thought we were quite at their disposal, and only waitin...g for the honour of their commands; and they sauntered about, in a careless indolent manner, as if with a view to keep us in suspense.... I thought it so provoking, that I determined in my own mind that, far from humouring such airs, I would rather not dance at all.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I wish the opera was every night. It is, of all entertainments, the sweetest and most delightful. Some of the songs seemed to melt... my very soul.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We have been a-shopping ... all this morning, to buy silks, caps, gauzes, and so forth. The shops are really very entertaining, es...pecially the mercers; there seem to be six or seven men belonging to each shop; and every one took care, by bowing and smirking, to be noticed.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »