The Quaker: A Study in CostumeFerris & Leach, 1901 - 232 páginas |
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Página 180 - Love! ye do me wrong To cast me off discourteously; And I have loved you so long, Delighting in your company.
Página 181 - My men were clothed all in green, And they did ever wait on thee; All this was gallant to be seen, And yet thou wouldst not love me. Greensleeves was all my joy, &c.
Página 100 - Up, and put on my coloured silk suit, very fine, and my new periwig, bought a good while since, but durst not wear, because the plague was in Westminster when I bought it; and it is a wonder what will be the fashion after the plague is done, as to periwigs, for nobody will dare to buy any hair, for fear of the infection, that it had been cut off the heads of people dead of the plague My Lord Brouncker, Sir J.
Página 68 - Moreover, when the Lord sent me forth into the world, he forbade me to "put off my hat" to any, high or low; and I was required to Thee and Thou all men and women, without any respect to rich or poor, great or small.
Página 52 - Some Friends were apprehensive that my wearing such a hat savored of an affected singularity; those who spoke with me in a friendly way I generally informed, in a few words, that I believed my wearing it was not in my own will.
Página 40 - Be thine of Kersey firm, though small the cost, Then brave unwet the rain, unchill'd the frost.
Página 51 - Thinking often on these things, the use of hats and garments dyed with a dye hurtful to them, and wearing more clothes in summer than are useful, grew more uneasy to me, believing them to be customs which have not their foundation in pure wisdom. The apprehension of being singular from my beloved friends was a strait upon me, and thus I continued in the use of some things contrary to my judgment.
Página 162 - You can have no idea of the life of continued amusement I live in. I can scarce have a moment to myself I have stole this while everybody is retired to dress for dinner. I am but just come from under Mr. J. Black's hands and most elegantly am I dressed for a ball this evening at Smith's where we have one every Thursday. You would not know the room 'tis so much improv'd.
Página 69 - Where did ever any magistrate, king, or judge, from Moses to Daniel, command any to put off their hats, when they came before them in their courts, either amongst the Jews, the people of God, or amongst the heathens ? and if the law of England doth command any such thing, show me that law either written or printed.
Página 99 - Nor is the flaxen wig with safety worn : High on the shoulder in a basket borne, Lurks the sly boy ; whose hand, to rapine bred, Plucks off the curling honours of thy head, Here dives the skulking thief, with practis'd alight.