 conversation, some •working, others drinking coffee or sherbet, and many negligently lying on their cushions, while their slaves (generally pretty girls of seventeen or eighteen) were employed in braiding their hair in several pretty fancies.  The Eastern, or Turkish bath - Pàgina 39per Sir Erasmus Wilson - 1861 - 167 pàginesVisualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | Lady Mary Wortley Montagu - 1796 - 468 pàgines
...naked in different postures , some in conversation, some working, others drinking coffee or sherbert , and many negligently lying on their cushions, while...in braiding their hair in several pretty fancies. In short, 'tis the woman's coffee-house, where all the news of the town is told, scandal invented ,... | |
 | William Fordyce Mavor - 1809 - 458 pàgines
...fine women naked, in' different postures, some in conversation, some working, pthcrs drinking cof. lee or sherbet, and many negligently lying on their cushions,...in braiding their hair in several pretty fancies. In 'short, it is the women's coffee-house, where all the news of the * Charles Jervas was a puptl of... | |
 | Lady Mary Wortley Montagu - 1822 - 336 pàgines
...wonld have very much improved his art, to see so many fine women naked in different postures, some in conversation, some working, others drinking coffee or sherbet, and many negligently lying on their eushions, while their slaves (generally pretty girls of seventeen or eighteen ) were employed in braiding... | |
 | James Augustus St. John - 1832 - 446 pàgines
...indolent, were reclining negligently• cia their cushions, “while their slaves, generally prettp' 1 ' girls of seventeen or eighteen, were employed in braiding their hair in several pretty fancies.” This spectacle our traveller quitted for the wn'¿ pose of examining the ruins of Justinian's church;... | |
 | James Augustus St. John - 1835 - 454 pàgines
...some drinking coffee or sherbet, and others, more languid and indolent, were reclining negligently on their cushions, " while their slaves, generally...in braiding their hair in several pretty fancies." This spectacle our traveller quitted for the purpose of examining the ruins of Justinian's church;... | |
 | Lady Mary Wortley Montagu - 1837 - 430 pàgines
...would have very much improved his art, to see so many fine women naked, in different postures, some in conversation, some working, others drinking coffee...in braiding their hair in several pretty fancies, In short, it is the women's coffee-house, where all the news of the town is told, scandal invented,... | |
 | Lady Mary Wortley Montagu - 1837 - 606 pàgines
...would have very much improved his art, to see so many fine women naked, in different postures, some in conversation, some working, others drinking coffee...in braiding their hair in several pretty fancies, In short, it is the women's coffee-house, where all the news of the town is told, scandal invented,... | |
 | Lady Mary Wortley Montagu - 1837 - 514 pàgines
...his celebrated epistle to him, in which he is complimented, as " selling a thousand years of bloom." many negligently lying on their cushions, while their...in braiding their hair in several pretty fancies. In short, it is the women's coffee-house, where all the news of the town is told, scandal invented,... | |
 | Lady Mary Wortley Montagu - 1837 - 556 pàgines
...his celebrated epistle to him, in which he is complimented, as " selling a thousand years of bloom." many negligently lying on their cushions, while their...in braiding their hair in several pretty fancies. In short, it is the women's coffee-house, where all the news of the town is told, scandal invented,... | |
 | Lady Mary Wortley Montagu - 1837 - 512 pàgines
...his celebrated epistle to him, in which he is complimented, as " selling a thousand years of bloom." many negligently lying on their cushions, while their...in braiding their hair in several pretty fancies. In short, it is the women's coffee-house, where all the news of the town is told, scandal invented,... | |
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