 | 342 sider
...confess, have more charm for us than all his political letters, observes with his usual sly satire — " I have myself so " vulgar a taste, that I see more...feigned. This unhappy depravity of taste has been occa" sioned, perhaps, by my having been so long accustomed to view the " Brahmin women, who are in... | |
 | 1844 - 606 sider
...confess, have more charm for us than all his political letters, observes with his usual sly satire — " I have myself so vulgar a taste, that " I see more...personal charms almost always arrayed in nothing but simple pieces of dark blue cotton cloth, which they throw on with a decent art, and a careless grace,... | |
 | 1846 - 606 sider
...confess, have more charm for us than all his political letters, observes with his usual sly satire — " I have myself so vulgar a taste, that ' I see more...personal charms, almost always arrayed in nothing ' but simple pieces of dark blue cotton cloth, which they throw on with a decent art, and a careless grace,... | |
 | 1846 - 626 sider
...confess, have more charm for us than all his political letters, observes with his usual sly satire—" I have myself so vulgar a taste, that ' I see more...fashionable painter ' feigned. This unhappy depravity of ta-te has been occasioned, ' perhaps, by my having been so long accustomed to view the ' Brahmin women,... | |
 | George Robert Gleig - 1849 - 390 sider
...parted. I have not been idle in that time, as you shall see when I return to expose my sun-dried beauty. "I have myself so vulgar a taste, that I see more...perhaps, by my having been so long accustomed to view the Brahman women, who are in this country both the first in rank and in personal charms, almost always... | |
 | George Robert Gleig - 1849 - 388 sider
...I have not been idle in that time, as you shall see when I return to expose my sun-dried beauty. " I have myself so vulgar a taste, that I see more beauty...perhaps, by my having been so long accustomed to view the Brahman women, who are in this country both the first in rank and in personal charms, almost always... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1927 - 904 sider
...while I am pulling it off to try on a new waistcoat.' 1 Again, in a letter to his sister, he writes : ' I have myself so vulgar a taste, that I see more beauty in a plain dress than in one tricked ont with the most elegant pattern that ever fashionable painter feigned.' a He accounts for his attitude... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1927 - 782 sider
...while I am pulling it off to try on a new waistcoat.' l Again, in a letter to his sister, he writes : ' I have myself so vulgar a taste, that I see more beauty...elegant pattern that ever fashionable painter feigned.' * He accounts for his attitude thus : ' This unhappy depravity of taste has been occasioned perhaps... | |
 | Ramananda Chatterjee - 1913 - 806 sider
...would very soon bring about her dissolution ."* Here is another extract from a letter to his sister: "I have myself so vulgar a taste, that I see more beauty in a plain dress lhan in one tricked out with the most elegant pattern that ever fashionable painter feigned. This unhappy... | |
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I have myself so vulgar a taste, that " I see more beauty in a plain dress, than in one tricked out " with the most elegant pattern, that ever fashionable painter feigned. This unhappy depravity of taste has been occasioned, perhaps, by my having been... 