Tour in England, Ireland and France in the years 1828 and 1829 by a German Prince, Том 3 |
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Сторінка 263 - The Emperor of Russia, the King of Prussia, and the Prince Regent, accompanied by a number of persons of distinction, paid a visit to the University of Oxford. They were...
Сторінка 129 - The most striking thing to a foreigner in English theatres is the unheardof coarseness and brutality of the audiences. The consequence of this is that the higher and more civilized classes go only to the Italian opera, and very rarely visit their national theatre.
Сторінка 86 - After the soup is removed, and the covers are taken off, every man helps the dish before him, and offers some of it to his neighbour*; if he wishes for anything else, he must ask across the table, or send a servant for it; — a very troublesome custom, in place of which, some of the most elegant travelled gentlemen have adopted the more convenient German fashion of sending the servants round with the dishes. It is not usual to take wine without drinking to another person.
Сторінка 130 - Another cause for the absence of respectable families is the resort of hundreds of those unhappy women with whom London swarms. They are to be seen of every degree, from the lady who spends a splendid income, and has her own box, to the wretched beings who wander houseless in the streets. Between the acts they fill the large and handsome foyer*, and exhibit their boundless effrontery in the most revolting manner.
Сторінка 87 - Indian and native preserves, stomachic ginger, confitures, and the like. Clean glasses are set before every guest, and, with the dessert plates and knives and forks, small fringed napkins are laid. Three decanters are usually placed before the master of the house, generally containing claret, port, and sherry, or madeira. The host pushes these in stands, or in a little silver wagon on wheels, to his neighbour on the left.
Сторінка 87 - It is esteemed a civility to challenge any body in this way to drink ; and a messenger is often sent from one end of the table to the other, to announce to B. that A. wishes to take wine with him : whereupon each, sometimes with considerable trouble, catches the other's eye, and goes through the ceremony of the prescribed nod with great formality, looking at the moment very like a Chinese mandarin Glass jugs filled with water happily enable foreigners to temper the brandy which forms so large a component...
Сторінка 182 - I lately read a curious instance of conjugal affection in the newspaper. The Marquis of Hastings died in Malta : shortly before his death, he ordered that his right hand should be cut off immediately after his death, and sent to his wife. A gentleman of my acquaintance, out of real tenderness...
Сторінка 129 - ... times, in the course of a performance, and amuse many of the audience more than that does. It is also no rarity for some one to throw the fragments of his
Сторінка 181 - ... dinner-table without a formal invitation. I lately read a moving instance of conjugal affection in the newspaper: The Marquis of Hastings died in Malta; shortly before his death he ordered that his right hand should be cut off immediately after his death, and sent to his wife. A gentleman of my acquaintance...
Сторінка 108 - English chairs, of every form, and adapted to every degree of fatigue, indisposition, or constitutional peculiarity, really loses a large share of earthly enjoyment. It is a positive pleasure even to see an Englishman sit, or rather lie, in one of these couch-like chairs by the fire-side. A contrivance like a reading-desk, attached to the arm and furnished with a candlestick, is so placed before him, that with the slightest touch he can bring it nearer or further, push it to the right or the left...