 | 1853 - 640 pages
...; her gracious bows, seasonable nods, courteous stretching out of her hands, twinkling of her eyes, and various gestures of approbation, show what may...and obscenity. Her way of address to people, more than necessarily submissive ; a certain general form to all, obliging, by repeating aflecte'd generous,... | |
 | John Evelyn - 1852 - 460 pages
...; her gracious bows, seasonable nods, courteous stretching out of her hands, twinkling of her eyes, and various gestures of approbation, show what may...and obscenity. Her way of address to people, more than necessarily submissive; a certain general form to all, obliging, by repeating affected, generous,... | |
 | John Evelyn - Great Britain - 1852 - 468 pages
...greatness; her gracious bows, seasonable nods, courteous stretching out of her hands, twinkling of her eyes, and various gestures of approbation, show what may...books, aiming at science, difficulties, high notions, * This letter appears to describe the impression produced on the writer by that interview with Margaret,... | |
 | John Evelyn - 1854 - 642 pages
...; her gracious bows, seasonable nods, courteous stretching out of her hands, twinkling of her eyes, and various gestures of approbation, show what may...books, aiming at science, difficulties, high notions, * This letter appears to describe the impression produced on the writer by that interview with Margaret,... | |
 | John Evelyn - Great Britain - 1879 - 530 pages
...; her gracious bows, seasonable nods, courteous stretching out of her hands, twinkling of her eyes, and various gestures of approbation, show what may...obscenity. Her way of address to people, more 1 This letter appears to describe the impression produced on the writer by that interview with Margaret, Duchess... | |
 | Henry Benjamin Wheatley - Authors, English - 1880 - 342 pages
...her eyes, and various gestures of approbation, show what may be expected from her discourse, which is airy, empty, whimsical, and rambling as her books,...terminating commonly in nonsense, oaths, and obscenity." Pepys's summing up of the Duchess's character is shorter, but accords well with Mrs. Evelyn's opinion—he... | |
 | Henry Benjamin Wheatley - Authors, English - 1880 - 330 pages
...greatness; her gracious bows, seasonable nods, courteous stretching out of her hands, twinkling of her eyes, and various gestures of approbation, show what may be expected from her discourse, which is airy, empty, whimsical, and rambling as her books, aiming at science difficulties, high notions, terminating... | |
 | Henry Benjamin Wheatley - 1880 - 356 pages
...eyes, and various gestures of approbation, show what may be expected from her discourse, -which is airy, empty, whimsical, and rambling as her books,...at science difficulties, high notions, terminating In a book written by a man so intimately connected with the navy as Pcpys was, it is not surprising... | |
 | John Evelyn - Great Britain - 1891 - 540 pages
...; her gracious bows, seasonable nods, courteous stretching out of her hands, twinkling of her eyes, and various gestures of approbation, show what may...obscenity. Her way of address to people, more 1 This letter appears to describe the impression produced on the writer by that interview with Margaret, Duchess... | |
 | John Evelyn - Great Britain - 1906 - 510 pages
...; her gracious bows, seasonable nods, courteous stretching out of her hands, twinkling of her eyes, and various gestures of approbation, show what may...terminating commonly in nonsense, oaths, and obscenity." Mrs. Evelyn paints a full-length ; but a kit-cat is enough, and justifies Pepys' briefer report of... | |
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Her mien surpasses the imagination of poets, or the descriptions of a romance heroine's greatness ; her gracious bows, seasonable nods, courteous stretching out of her hands, twinkling of her eyes, and various gestures of approbation, show what may be... 
