Identifier: historyoflac00pall (find matches)
Title: History of lace
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Palliser, Bury, Mrs., 1805-1878 Jourdain, Margaret Dryden, Alice
Subjects: Lace and lace making
Publisher: New York : C. Scribner's Sons
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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subjects that she would not let the little inci-of their honesty. Again, Silvio, in dent trouble a ceremony at which athe bill of costs he sends in to the king and queen were about to endowwidow Zelinda, at tlie termination of her child with the names of Georgianahis unsuccessful suit, makes a charge Charlotte. As Cornwallis gave backfor a piece of Flanders lace to the infant to her nurse, he remarkedMrs. Abigail, her woman.—Addison, that it was the quietest baby he hadin Giiarcliaii, No. 17. 1713. ever held. Poor victim of ceremony!^ In the next reign, George III. It was not quite dead, but dying; in aand Queen Charlotte often conde- few unconscious hours it calmly sleptscended to become sponsors to the away.—AGossiponEoyalChristen-children of the aristocracy. To one ings. Cornliill Magazine. April,child their presence was fatal. In 1864. 1778 tlicy stood to the infant ^ Furniture of a Womans Mind. daughter of the last Duke and Duchess ^ Dean Swift to a Young Ladv. Plate LXXXIV.
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John Law, the Paris Bankee, Author of the Mississippi Scheme, 1671-1729.— Iji cravat of Point de France, between 1708-20. Painted by Belle. National Portrait Gallery. Photo by Walker and Cockerel!, To face page 3,52, GEORGE I 353 your heroic spirit will prefer a beaus hand in Brussels laceto a stubborn Scsevola without an arm. In the middle of the nineteenth century it was thefashion that no young lady should wear lace previous toher marriage. In the reign of George 11. etiquette wasdifferent, for we find the Duchess of Portland presentingMrs. Montague, then a girl, with a lace head and ruffles. Wrathfully do the satirists of the day rail against the•expense of The powder, patches, and the pins,The ribbon, jewels, and the rings.The lace, the paint, and warlike thingsThat make up all their magazines,^ and the consequent distress of the lace merchants, to whomladies are indebted for thousands. After a drawing-room, inwhich the fair population appeared in borrowed, i.e.,unpaid lace,^

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