 ... an insult, in Paris, if a man, sitting down by a married lady, immediately commences making love to her. His language is divested of all unnecessary explicitness ; but it has a sufficiently palpable tendency to the last favour that a woman can grant....  The Englishman in Paris - Seite 2211819Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | 1815 - 442 Seiten
...tendency to the last favour that a woman can grant. It is iu fact, a mere matter of course almost, to address a French married lady in those terms of...gallantry, which, in England, are employed to females whose person" are still disposable. The woman to whom they are directed may not he inclined to listen... | |
 | John Scott - 1815 - 434 Seiten
...tendency to the last favour that a woman can grant. It is, in fact, a mere matter of course almost, to address a French married lady in those terms of...gallantry, which, in England, are employed to females whese persons are still disposable. The woman to whom they are directed may not be inclined to listen... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1816 - 514 Seiten
...tendency to ' the last favour that a woman can grant. It is, in fact, a * mere matter of course almost, to address a French married ' lady in those terms...gallantry, which, in England, are ' employed to females whose persons are still disposable. ' The woman to whom they are directed may not be inclin' ed to... | |
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