 I saw upon the stage shocked me ; the dresses and beauty of the performers were enchanting; but, no sooner did the dance commence, than I felt my delicacy wounded, and I was ashamed to be seen to look at them.- Girls, clothed in the thinnest silk and...  America and French Culture, 1750-1848 - الصفحة 313بواسطة Howard Mumford Jones - 1927 - عدد الصفحات: 615عرض كامل - لمحة عن هذا الكتاب
 | Abigail Adams - 1840 - عدد الصفحات: 306
...the dance commence, than I felt my delicacy wounded, and I was ashamed to be seen to look at them. Girls, clothed in the thinnest silk and gauze, with...petticoat had been worn, was a sight altogether new to me. Their motions are as light as air, and as quick as lightning ; they balance themselve,s to astonishment.... | |
 | Abigail Adams - 1840 - عدد الصفحات: 320
...the dance commence, than I felt my delicacy wounded, and I was ashamed to be seen to look at them. Girls, clothed in the thinnest silk and gauze, with...petticoat had been worn, was a sight altogether new to me. Their motions are as light as air, and as quick as lightning ; they balance themselves to astonishment.... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1841 - عدد الصفحات: 554
...the dance commence, than I felt my delicacy wounded, and I was ashamed to be seen to look at them.- Girls, clothed in the thinnest silk and gauze, with...petticoat had been worn, was a sight altogether new to me. Their motions are as light as air, and as quick as lightning ; they balance themselves to astonishment.... | |
 | 1841 - عدد الصفحات: 412
...the dance commence, than I felt my delicacy wounded, and I was ashamed to be seen to look at them. Girls, clothed in the thinnest silk and gauze, with...petticoat had been worn, was a sight altogether new to me. Their motions are as light as air, and as quick as lightning; they balance themselves to astonishment.... | |
 | Stedman, Edmund C. and Hutchinson Ellen M. - 1888 - عدد الصفحات: 566
...the dance commence, than I felt my delicacy wounded, and I was ashamed to be seen to look at them. Girls, clothed in the thinnest silk and gauze, with...petticoat had been worn, was a sight altogether new to me . Their motions are as light as air, and as quick as lightning; they balance themselves to astonishment.... | |
 | Edmund Clarence Stedman, Ellen Mackay Hutchinson, Mrs. Ellen Mackay Hutchinson Cortissoz - 1894 - عدد الصفحات: 592
...the dance commence, than I felt my delicacy wounded, and I was ashamed to be seen to look at them. Girls, clothed in the thinnest silk and gauze, with...petticoat had been worn, was a sight altogether new to me. Their motions are as light as air, and as quick as lightning ; they balance themselves to astonishment... | |
 | Paul F. Boller - 1998 - عدد الصفحات: 568
...commence," she added, "than I felt my delicacy wounded and I was ashamed to be seen to look at them. Girls, clothed in the thinnest silk and gauze, with...petticoat had been worn, was a sight altogether new." Still, she admitted, she had to "speak a truth, and say that repeatedly seeing these dances has worn... | |
 | Harvey Levenstein - 2000 - عدد الصفحات: 442
...the first time, Adams wrote a friend, I found my delicacy wounded, and I was ashamed to look at them. Girls, clothed in the thinnest silk and gauze, with...poising themselves in the air, with their feet flying, as perfectly showing their garters and drawers as though no petticoat had been worn, was a sight altogether... | |
 | W. M. Verhoeven, Beth Dolan Kautz - 1999 - عدد الصفحات: 232
...even Abigail Adams. She was just as shocked by her first ballet as her compatriots, with the girls "perfectly showing their garters and drawers as though no petticoat had been worn;" yet after a whiie, she had to confess, "that repeatedly seeing these dances has worn off that disgust,... | |
 | E. M. Halliday - 2009 - عدد الصفحات: 306
...wounded, and I was ashamed to be seen to look at them, girls cloathed in the thinest silk and gauze . . . springing two feet from the floor poising themselves...the air, with their feet flying, and as perfectly shewing their Garters and draws, as tho no petticoat had been worn." Abigail took fondly to Thomas... | |
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