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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Ill THE BAS BLEU MINDFUL of Gray's opinion of Boswell's book on Corsica, which he says, proves that any fool may write a most valuable book by chance, if he will only tell us what he heard and saw with veracity, I have in all my notes, as in the following description of some of the principal members of the Bas Bleu Coterie, allowed the eyewitnesses, as far as possible, to speak in their own words. Mrs. Chapone (Hestor Mulso), at the age of twenty- three, originated the movement to substitute conversation for cards, and together with Dr. Johnson wrote the tenth number of the Rambler, in which appears the following protest: ? At card tables, however brilliant, I could know nothing of the Company, but their Clothes and their faces. I saw their looks clouded at the beginning of every game, with a uniform solicitude, now and then varied with a short triumph; at one time wrinkled with cunning, at another deadened with despondency, or by accident flushed with rage at the unskilful play of a partner. The origin of the word blue stocking has been attributed to various sources, but the writer of an interesting article in the Quarterly for January, 1903, after quoting some of the best known, such as Dr. Stillingfleet's blue stockings, considers the name probably arose from the factthat when Mrs. Greville (mother of Lady Crewe), the Duchess of Portland, and Mrs. Montagu, first imitated in London the salons of the Rue St. Honore, Mme. de Polignac attended in blue stockings (then the rage in Paris), and the English ladies adopted the fashion. Sir Nathaniel Wraxall does not consider that either in the period of its duration, or in the intellectual eminence of the principal members, the English Society can bear any comparison to that of France, which numbered among i...


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780217663830
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 128
  • Spine Width: 7 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0217663834
  • Publisher Date: 05 Feb 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 240 gr


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