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Page 67
... dress whether it be a crest , a comb , a tuft of feathers , or a natural little plume , erected like a kind of pinnacle on the very top of the head . As nature on the contrary has poured out her charms in the greatest abundance upon the ...
... dress whether it be a crest , a comb , a tuft of feathers , or a natural little plume , erected like a kind of pinnacle on the very top of the head . As nature on the contrary has poured out her charms in the greatest abundance upon the ...
Page 69
... dress : whether it be a crest , a comb , a tuft of feathers , or a natural little plume , erected like a kind of pinnacle on the very top of the head . As nature on the contrary has poured out her charms in the greatest abundance upon ...
... dress : whether it be a crest , a comb , a tuft of feathers , or a natural little plume , erected like a kind of pinnacle on the very top of the head . As nature on the contrary has poured out her charms in the greatest abundance upon ...
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... dress excels ours . The mantua has no lead in the sleeves , and I hope we are not lighter than the French ladies so as to want that kind of ballast ; the petticoat has no whalebone , but sits with an air altogether gallant and degagé ...
... dress excels ours . The mantua has no lead in the sleeves , and I hope we are not lighter than the French ladies so as to want that kind of ballast ; the petticoat has no whalebone , but sits with an air altogether gallant and degagé ...
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VOL V | 25 |
LETTER from a Coquette to a new mar | 254 |
Letters from an old Bachelorfrom Lovers | 260 |
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