| 1826 - 570 pages
...at length, overpowered with emotion, she turned away her head, and covered her eyes with her hand. Mothers !—English mothers ! who bring your daughters...— do ye well to expose them to scenes like these, andybrce the young bud of early feeling in such a precious hotbed as this ? — Can a finer finger... | |
| Mrs. Jameson (Anna) - Art - 1834 - 292 pages
...at length, overpowered with emotion, she turned away her head, and covered her eyes with her hand. Mothers! — English mothers ! who bring your daughters...— do ye well to expose them to scenes like these, and/orce the young bud of early feeling in such a precious hot-bed as this ? Can a finer finger on... | |
| Mrs. Jameson (Anna) - Art - 1879 - 360 pages
...till at length overpowered with emotion, she turned away her head, and covered her eyes with her hand. Mothers ! — English mothers ! who bring your daughters...— do ye well to expose them to scenes like these, and/orce the young bud of early feeling in such a precious hot-bed as this ? Can a finer finger on... | |
| Mrs. Jameson (Anna) - Art - 1885 - 352 pages
...her hand. Mothers!— English mothers! who bring your daughters abroad to finish their education—do ye well to expose them to scenes like these, and force...precious hot-bed as this ? Can a finer finger on the piano,—a finer taste in painting, or any possible improvement in foreign arts, and foreign graces,... | |
| Peter Gay - Music - 1984 - 532 pages
...aroused her slumbering sexual needs. "Mothers! — " the woman who watched her appealed to her readers, "English mothers! who bring your daughters abroad...like these, and force the young bud of early feeling into such a precious hot-bed as this?"13 Her question, thoroughly conventional, condensed what troubled... | |
| Ian Littlewood - Travel - 2008 - 262 pages
...around, and the risk, as Jameson warns, is that the pursuit of culture will lead into moral danger; 'Mothers! - English mothers! who bring your daughters...the young bud of early feeling in such a precious hot bed as this? - Can a finer finger on the piano, - a finer taste in painting, or any possible improvement... | |
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