 | Ann Bermingham, John Brewer - 1995 - 668 oldal
...[1751]), an ambivalent work, depicts a frivolous heroine who enjoys a typical list of urban pastimes: "The court, the play, the ball, and opera, with giving and receiving visits, engrossed all the time that could be spared from the toilette" (Hay wood 1751: 12). Mr. Trueworth,... | |
 | John J. Richetti - 1999 - 304 oldal
...by a household governed by fashionable manners supported by wealth drawn from commercial activity: The court, the play, the ball, and opera, with giving and receiving visits engrossed all the time that could be spared from the toilette. It cannot, therefore, seem strange... | |
 | Christopher Flint - 2002 - 416 oldal
...than a place of systematic relations, the house has become the repository of false ideology in which "[t]he court, the play, the ball, and opera, with giving and receiving visits, engrossed all the time that could be spared from the toilet" (1: 20). Domestic privacy and... | |
 | Kirsten T. Saxton, Rebecca P. Bocchicchio - 2000 - 386 oldal
...private family indulge herself, and those about her, with such a continual round of publick diversions. The court, the play, the ball, and opera, with giving and receiving visits, engrossed all the time could be spared from the toilet. It cannot, therefore, seem strange,... | |
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The court, the play, the ball, and opera, with giving and receiving visits, engrossed all the time could be spared from the toilet. 