| Richard Holt Hutton, Walter Bagehot - 1862 - 544 páginas
...and repays little; its attractions are few, while its trouble and its gene are great. All this time, while the monde has been deteriorating, the demi-monde...clever and amusing, usually more beautiful, and not unfrequently (in external demeanour at least) as modest, as their rivals in more recognised society.... | |
| William Rathbone Greg - 1873 - 366 páginas
...while the monde has been deteriorating, the I demi-monde has been improving ; as the one has grown I stupider and costlier, the other has grown more attractive,...clever and amusing, usually more beautiful, and not uufrequently (in external demeanor at least) as modest, as their rivals in more recognized society.... | |
| William Rathbone Greg - 1873 - 370 páginas
...trouble and its gene are great All this time, while tlie monde has been deteriorating, the dtmi-mande has been improving ; as the one has grown stupider...attractive, more decorous, and more easy. The ladies tlure are now , '••often as clever and amusing, usually more beautiful, nnd not (infrequently (in... | |
| William Rathbone Greg - 1876 - 370 páginas
...and repays little ; its attractions are few, while its trouble and its gene are great. All this time, while the monde has been deteriorating, the demi-monde...clever and amusing, usually more beautiful, and not unfrequently (in external demeanor at least) as uiodr est, as their rivals in more recognized society.... | |
| Lady Barbara Nightingale Stephen - 1927 - 420 páginas
...freedom, luxury, and self-indulgence of a bachelor's career with the pleasures of female society. . . . While the monde has been deteriorating, the demi-monde...grown more attractive, more decorous, and more easy. . . . As long as men are fond of female society, and yet hate to be bored " — so long will they frequent... | |
| 1868 - 718 páginas
...? " Mr. Greg puts forth the astonishing statement that " the ladies" of the demi-monde in England " are now often as clever and amusing, usually more beautiful, and not unfrequently (in external demeanour at least) as modest as their rivals in more recognised society."... | |
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