 Here young, fair, fresh-coloured country girls, with clean linen, small straw hats, and neat shoes and stockings, sell game, vegetables, flowers, and fruit : here one may live as well as one pleases : here is, likewise, deep play, and no want of amorous...  The Union Magazine, and Imperial Register ... - Strona 301801Pełny widok - Informacje o książce
 | John Radford Thomson - 1876 - Liczba stron: 286
...as " good living as you wish. There is playing for high stakes, and " love-making in abundance. When evening comes, every one " quits his little palace to assemble on the bowling green (Boulin" grin.) There in the open air there is, dancing for those who like " it, upon... | |
 | 1878 - Liczba stron: 698
...from each other, a mile and a half all round the Wells, where the company meet in the morning. . . As soon as the evening comes, every one quits his little palace to assemble on the bowling green.' ' The game of bowls, which in France is the pastime of mechanics and servants only,... | |
 | 1878 - Liczba stron: 536
...from each other, a mile and a half all round the Wells, where the company meet in the morning. . . As soon as the evening comes, every one quits his little palace to assemble on the bowling green.' ' The game of bowls, which in France is the pastime of mechanics and servants only,... | |
 | Robert Macgregor - 1881 - Liczba stron: 226
...from each other, a mile and a half all round the Wells, where the company meet in the morning. . . As soon as the evening comes, every one quits his little palace to assemble on the bowling green." "The game of bowls, which in France is the pastime of mechanics and servants only,... | |
 | 1892 - Liczba stron: 680
...De Grammont accounts for the popularity of the little wateringplace very simply. " Here," he says, " one may live as one pleases ; here is likewise deep play and no want of amorous intrigue." It soon grew impossible to live as one pleased at " The Wells," and the " person of quality... | |
 | Pelton, Richard, publisher - 1896 - Liczba stron: 344
...as good living as you wish. There is " playing for high stakes, and love-making in abundance. When " evening comes, every one quits his little palace to assemble "on the bowling green (Boulin grin). There in the open air " there is dancing for those who like it, upon a... | |
 | Thomas Firminger Thiselton-Dyer - 1903 - Liczba stron: 482
...separated from each other a mile and a half all round the Wells, where the company meet in the morning. ... As soon as the evening comes every one quits his little palace to assemble on the bowling-green." Another game once countenanced by royalty was skittles or nine-pins, a pastime, it is said, in which... | |
 | Anthony Hamilton (Count) - 1906 - Liczba stron: 636
...offensive appears on the stalls. Here young, fair, fresh-coloured country girls, with clean linen, small straw hats, and neat shoes and stockings, sell...play, and no want of amorous intrigues. As soon as with her numerous Court is still at Tunbridge, where the waters have done nothing of what was expected.... | |
 | Anthony Hamilton (Count) - 1910 - Liczba stron: 402
...offensive appears on the stalls. Here young, fair, fresh-coloured country girls, with clean linen, small straw hats, and neat shoes and stockings, sell...comes, every one quits his little palace to assemble at the bowling-green, where, in the open air, those who choose, dance upon a turf more soft and smooth... | |
 | Anthony Hamilton (Count) - 1910 - Liczba stron: 402
...offensive appears on the stalls. Here young, fair, fresh-coloured country girls, with clean linen, small straw hats, and neat shoes and stockings, sell...want of amorous intrigues. As soon as the evening conies, every one quits his little palace to assemble at the bowling-green, where, in the open air,... | |
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