 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1847 - 580 pages
...riding in English fashion, and in English riding costume, in itself creates what the French call a sensation ; but to see her in such out-of-the-way...we used to overhear, both in the town and country.' Nay, such was the rage for copying the last new fashions, that at the next carnival, when all devout... | |
 | American periodicals - 1847 - 610 pages
...riding in English fashion, and in English riding costume, in itself creates what the French call a sensation ; but to see her in such out-of-the-way...we used to overhear, both in the town and country. Nay, such was the rage for copying the last new fashions, that at the next carnival, when all devout... | |
 | Frank Vigor Morley - 1924 - 226 pages
...to the Foz, stayed there till November, and were then driven by the weather to Oporto. She writes: 'Oporto is a most interesting and entertaining town...another time a little urchin ran after me, crying out, "Que diablo" of a long gown!' She describes the embarrassing punctilio of calls and visits which occupied... | |
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Nay, such was the rage for copying the last new fashions, that at the next carnival, when all devout Roman Catholics dance and disguise themselves, an equestrian mask appeared, to the rapture of streets and balconies, representing 