 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
 | Tobias Smollett - 1790 - 420 pages
...windows is the King's Bath ; a huge ciftern, where you fee the patients up to their necks in hot water, The ladies wear jackets and petticoats of brown linen,...in which they fix their handkerchiefs to wipe the fweat from their faces ; but, truly, whether it is owing to the fteam that furrounds them, or the heat... | |
 | Tobias Smollett - 1793 - 270 pages
...windows is the King's Bath ; a huge eiftern, where you fee the patients up to their necks in hot water. The ladies wear jackets and petticoats of brown linen,...in which they fix their handkerchiefs to wipe the fweat from their faces ; but, truly, whether it is owing to the fteam that -furrounds them, or the... | |
 | Tobias Smollett - English fiction - 1796 - 564 pages
...windows is the King's Bath ; a huge ciftern, where you fee the patients up to their necks in hot water. The ladies wear jackets and petticoats of brown linen,...chip hats, in which they fix their handkerchiefs to xvipe the fweat from their faces ; but, truly, whether it is owing to the fteam that furrounds them,... | |
 | English literature - 1820 - 280 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,...of the dress, or to all these causes together, they look so flushed, and so frightful, that I always turn my eyes another way.—My aunt, who says every... | |
 | Tobias George Smollett - 1820 - 280 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,...of the dress, or to all these causes together, they look so flushed, and so frightful, that I always turn my eyes another way.—My aunt, who says every... | |
 | Tobias George Smollett - 1824 - 374 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,...of the dress, or to all these causes together, they look so flushed, and so frightful, that I always turn my eyes another way. My aunt, who says every... | |
 | Tobias George Smollett, Sir Walter Scott - 1835 - 558 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,...in which they fix their handkerchiefs to wipe the Hweat from their faces ; but, truly, whether ft is owing to the steam that surrounds them, or the heat... | |
 | Tobias Smollett, Thomas Roscoe - English fiction - 1836 - 436 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,...of the dress, or to all these causes together, they look so flushed, and so frightful, that I always tuni my eyes another way. My aunt, who says every... | |
 | George Augustus Sala, Edmund Yates - English periodicals - 1886 - 588 pages
...is the King's bath, a large cistern, where you see the patients up to their neck in the hot water. The ladies wear jackets and petticoats of brown linen,...hats, in which they fix their handkerchiefs to wipe their faces ; but they look so flushed and so frightful that I always turn my eyes another way." Miss... | |
 | English literature - 1870 - 574 pages
...is the King's bath — a large cistern where you see the patients up to their neck in the hot water. The ladies wear jackets and petticoats of brown linen,...handkerchiefs to wipe the sweat from their faces ; but they look so flushed and so frightful, that I always turn my eyes another way.' Miss Burney's Evelina,... | |
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