 A few pretty woman, not in the highest rank of the nobility, met at Devonshire House to practise quadrilles, then recently imported from the continent. The establishment of a subscription-ball was suggested, to which none but the very e"lite were to be...  The victims of society - Page 166by Marguerite Gardiner (countess of Blessington.) - 1837Full 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) - English literature - 1836 - 568 pages
...may serve to illustrate the mode in which this sort of empire was consolidated. A few pretty woman, not in the highest rank of the nobility, met at Devonshire...no arts of solicitation were left untried to avert so horrible a catastrophe. The wives and daughters of the oldest provincial gentry, with pedigrees... | |
 | Marguerite Countess of Blessington - English fiction - 1837 - 224 pages
...resistance to a well-organized system of exclusiveness. A few pretty women, not in the highest iank of the nobility, met at Devonshire House, to practise...no arts of solicitation were left untried to avert so teriible a catastrophe. The wives and daughters of the oldest provincial gentry, with pedigrees... | |
 | James Grant - London (England) - 1837 - 666 pages
...practise quadrilles, then recently imported from the Continent. The establishment of a subscription ball was suggested, to which none but the very elite were...no arts of solicitation were left untried to avert so horrible a catastrophe. The wives and daughters of the oldest provincial gentry, with pedigrees... | |
 | English literature - 1837 - 590 pages
...subscription to be low, with the view of checking the obtrusive vulgarity of wealth. The fancy took, nnd when it transpired that the patronesses had actually...refused a most estimable English duchess, all London hecame mad to be admitted ; exclusion was universally regarded as u positive loss of caste, and no... | |
 | 1836 - 564 pages
...continent. The establishment of a subscription-ball was suggested, to which none but the "very fide were to be admissible ; the subscription to be low,...no arts of solicitation were left untried to avert so horlible a catastrophe. The wives and daughters of the oldest provincial gentry, with pedigrees... | |
 | 1851 - 448 pages
...imported from the Continent. The establishment of a subscription ball was suggested, to which none hut the very elite were to be admissible ; the subscription...no arts of solicitation were left untried to avert so horrible a catastrophe. The wives and daughters Of the oldest provincial gentry, with pedigrees... | |
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