 Right under the pump-room windows is the King's Bath ; a huge cistern, where you see the patients up to their necks in hot water. The ladies wear jackets and petticoats of brown linen, with chip hats, in which they fix their handkerchiefs to wipe the...  The Quarterly Review - Page 354edited by - 1912Full view - About this book
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1912 - 652 pages
...sort of canvas ; this is the best linning, for the bath water will change any other yellow ' (op. tit. p. 13). Others say that the garments, originally white,...Through England on a Side-Saddle ; being the Diary of Celi* Fieuuea' (London : Field and Tuer, 1888), p. 12. look so flushed and so frightful, that I always... | |
 | Annette Brown Hopkins - 1915 - 824 pages
...windows is the King's bath ; a huge cistern, where you see the> patients up to their necks in hot water. The ladies wear jackets and petticoats of brown linen,...heat of the water, or the nature of the dress, or all these causes together, they look so flushed, and so frightful, that I always turn my eyes another... | |
 | Frances Burney - 2000 - 698 pages
...windows is the King's Bath; a huge cistern, where you see the patients up to their necks in hot water. The ladies wear jackets and petticoats of brown linen,...their handkerchiefs to wipe the sweat from their faces ..." (Ed. Lewis Knapp, (New York: Oxford University Press, iy66], 39). 2 "Ton" is "the fashion, the... | |
 | Fiona Haslam - 1996 - 364 pages
...a huge cistern, where you see the patients up to their necks in hot water. The ladies wear jackets of brown linen, with chip hats, in which they fix...their handkerchiefs to wipe the sweat from their faces . . . my aunt . . . contrived a cap with cherry-coloured ribbons to suit her complexion . . .M Fashion,... | |
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