Townsend's monthly selection of Parisian costumes1877 |
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1.-Dress à deux à deux jupes back of skirt back view basques biais band black lace black silk black velvet blue silk bottom of skirt bouffante brim brown silk cashmire CHAPEAU chest closed by buttons color corsage crown Cuirasse deux jupes draped band draped tablier dress edged by narrow fashionable fastened finished floating ends flounce of white flowers flûted flounce flûted frill folds form points foulard frill of lace frill of white front and sides front forms front of skirt front view full-sized pattern gilet grey group of bows inches lady left side loops MADAME MAISON Milicent narrow lace neck ornamented ostrich feather pale passementerie Pelisse pieces plastron plate 3a pleats Polonaise Princesse PROMENADE COSTUME puff right side rouleaux rûche seam side of front silk bands skirt forms skirt is trimmed sleeves tabs Tunique underskirt upper skirt view see page view see plate waist white muslin
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Page 29 - My poet, thou canst touch on all the notes God set between his After and Before, And strike up and strike off the general roar Of the rushing worlds a melody that floats In a serene air purely.
Page 29 - Light to-morrow with to-day!' "Then he'll ride among the hills To the wide world past the river, There to put away all wrong; To make straight distorted wills, And to empty the broad quiver Which the wicked bear along.
Page 29 - This earthly noise is too anear, Too loud, and will not let me hear The little harp. My death will soon Make silence.' And a sense of tune, A satisfied love meanwhile Which nothing earthly could despoil, Sang on within her soul.
Page 29 - O'er all there hung a shadow and a fear ; A sense of mystery the spirit daunted, And said, as plain as whisper in the ear, The place is Haunted!
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Page 29 - And poor, proud Byron, sad as grave, And salt as life; forlornly brave, And quivering with the dart he drave. And visionary Coleridge, who Did sweep his thoughts as angels do Their wings with cadence up the Blue.
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