 Vesey is vastly agreeable, but [her fear of ceremony is really troublesome ; for her eagerness to break a circle is such, that she insists upon everybody's sitting with their backs one to another; that is, the chairs are drawn into little parties of three...  Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay - Page 170by Fanny Burney - 1842Full view - About this book
 | James Boswell, Samuel Johnson - 1887 - 490 lehte
...The hostess must have suffered, for, according to Miss Burney, ' Lord Harcourt said, " Mrs. Vesey's fear of ceremony is really troublesome ; for her eagerness...together, in a confused manner all over the room." ' Mme. D'Arblay's Diary, i. 184. Miss Burney thus describes her : — ' She has the most wrinkled,... | |
 | James Boswell, Samuel Johnson - 1887 - 490 lehte
...The hostess must have suffered, for, according to Miss Burney, ' Lord Harcourt said, " Mrs. Vesey's fear of ceremony is really troublesome ; for her eagerness...together, in a confused manner all over the room.'" Mme. D'Arblay's Diary, \. 184. Miss Bumey thus describes her : — ' She has the most wrinkled, sallow,... | |
 | Fanny Burney - 1890 - 482 lehte
...Mrs. Cholmondeley, speaking of the lady from whose house he was just come, he said, " Mrs. Vesey 3 is vastly agreeable, but her fear of ceremony is really...cried Mrs. Cholmondeley, " I shall certainly adopt it ! " 1 Miss Hannah More, the authoress. — ED. 2 Hannah More gave Dr. Johnson, when she was first introduced... | |
 | George Birkbeck Norman Hill - 1897 - 530 lehte
...More's Bos Bleu is addressed to her. 3 According to M iss Burney, ' Lord Harcourt said, " Mrs. Vesey's fear of ceremony is really troublesome ; for her eagerness...together in a confused manner all over the room." ' Mme. D'Arblay's Diary, i. 184. 4 Life, iii. 425, ». 3. Now and then perhaps Mrs. Vesey might call... | |
 | Sir William Weller Pepys - 1904 - 518 lehte
...so great, that she insisted upon everybody sitting with their backs to each other, the chairs being drawn into little parties of three together, in a confused manner all over the room, so that those -who occupied them saw no more of their neighbours than of those in the next room, except... | |
 | Sir William Weller Pepys - 1904 - 516 lehte
...so great, that she insisted upon everybody sitting with their backs to each other, the chairs being drawn into little parties of three together, in a confused manner all over the room, so that those who occupied them saw no more of their neighbours than of those in the next room, except... | |
 | Alice Cecilia Caroline Gaussen - 1906 - 316 lehte
...and eagerness to break a circle, she insisted upon everybody sitting back to back, the chairs being drawn into little parties of three together in a confused manner, all over the room, so that the occupants could not catch sight of their neighbours except by twisting their necks. But... | |
 | Ethel Rolt-Wheeler - 1910 - 410 lehte
...troublesome ; for her eagerness to break a circle is such, that she insists upon everybody's sitting with backs one to another ; that is, the chairs are drawn...together, in a confused manner, all over the room. . .' " Oh, I like the notion of all things,' cried Mrs Cholmondeley, ' I shall certainly adopt it !... | |
 | Hugh Stokes - 1917 - 506 lehte
...an ideal hostess. " Her fear of ceremony is really troublesome," Lord Harcourt told Fanny Burney. " Her eagerness to break a circle is such that she insists...together in a confused manner all over the room." This was trying. No man wished to sit with his back to the Duchess of Devonshire or Mrs. Crewe. Mrs.... | |
 | 1925 - 428 lehte
...is really troublesome ; for her eagerness to break a circle is such that she insists upon everybody sitting with their backs one to another ; that is,...together in a confused manner, all over the room." Fanny's visitors, including Mrs. Cholmondeley, declared their instant resolve to adopt the Vesey triangles,... | |
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