Costume in England: A History of Dress from the Earliest Period Until the Close of the Eighteenth CenturyChapman and Hall, 1860 - 607 sidor |
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... age of England's growth . As no historian could venture to give wrong dates designedly , so no painter should falsify history by delineating the charac- ters on his canvas in habits not known until many years after their death , or ...
... age of England's growth . As no historian could venture to give wrong dates designedly , so no painter should falsify history by delineating the charac- ters on his canvas in habits not known until many years after their death , or ...
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... ages , were disinterred from the burial - places of the early Britons , in that most interesting county , so rich in relics of remote antiquity . * The contents of these graves , then , are the only existing relics in our possession of ...
... ages , were disinterred from the burial - places of the early Britons , in that most interesting county , so rich in relics of remote antiquity . * The contents of these graves , then , are the only existing relics in our possession of ...
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... ages of population each nation was obliged to make use of those articles which the nature of their own soil supplied ... age , and the pattern then generally adopted . amber , together with the numerous articles of brass , THE EARLY ...
... ages of population each nation was obliged to make use of those articles which the nature of their own soil supplied ... age , and the pattern then generally adopted . amber , together with the numerous articles of brass , THE EARLY ...
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... ages before the Christian era . They are here engraved to convey an idea of the sort of ornamental taste displayed by our forefathers . In Douglas's Nenia Britannica some beautiful specimens of these ornaments and cruciform fibula may ...
... ages before the Christian era . They are here engraved to convey an idea of the sort of ornamental taste displayed by our forefathers . In Douglas's Nenia Britannica some beautiful specimens of these ornaments and cruciform fibula may ...
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... of feathers , were worn by the people of the Sandwich Islands . See the plates to Cook's Voy- ages , or the articles themselves in the British Museum . lines and bosses arranged circularly . In the same volume. 16 COSTUME IN ENGLAND .
... of feathers , were worn by the people of the Sandwich Islands . See the plates to Cook's Voy- ages , or the articles themselves in the British Museum . lines and bosses arranged circularly . In the same volume. 16 COSTUME IN ENGLAND .
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Sida 241 - I came one morning into the House well clad, and perceived a gentleman speaking whom I knew not, very ordinarily apparelled, for it was a plain cloth suit, which seemed to have been made by an ill country tailor...
Sida 241 - I knew not, very ordinarily apparelled, for it was a plain cloth suit, which seemed to have been made by an ill country tailor : his linen was plain and not very clean, and I remember a speck or two of blood upon his little band, which was not much larger than his collar : his hat was without a hat-band, his stature was of a good size, his sword stuck close to his side, his countenance swollen and reddish, his voice sharp and untunable, and his eloquence full of fervour, for the subjectmatter would...
Sida 363 - The spinsters and the knitters in the sun, And the free maids that weave their thread with bones, Do use to chant it ; it is silly sooth, And dallies with the innocence of love, Like the old age.
Sida 539 - While spouts run clattering o'er the roof by fits, And ever and anon with frightful din The leather sounds ; he trembles from within. So when...
Sida 109 - Then was there flowing hair, and extravagant dress ; and then was invented the fashion of shoes with curved points : then the model for young men was to rival women in delicacy of person, to mimic their gait, to walk with loose gesture, half-naked.
Sida 359 - Whilst they, sir, to relieve him in the fable, Make their loose comments upon every word, Gesture, or look, I use; mock me all over, From my flat cap unto my shining shoes; And, out of their impetuous rioting phant'sies, Beget some slander that shall dwell with me.
Sida 278 - ... heavy complaint against fringed gloves. To be brief, there is scarce an ornament of either sex which one or other of my correspondents has not inveighed against with some bitterness, and recommended to my observation. I must, therefore, once for all, inform my readers, that it is not my intention to sink the dignity of this my paper, with reflections upon red...
Sida 310 - Let her flaps fly behind, for a yard at the least ; Let her curls meet just under her chin ; Let these curls be supported, to keep up the jest, With an hundred, instead of one pin. Let her gown be...
Sida 376 - By'r lady, your ladyship is nearer to heaven than when I saw you last, by the altitude of a chopine.
Sida 198 - anatomised" them as well as the ladies ; and most efficiently has he wielded his lancet, and cut them up in a very workmanlike manner, from the crown of their heads to the soles of their feet. His satire will illustrate the points of costume exhibited in the above engraving ; but I may just mention the authorities from which the figures are derived.