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" To repose on voluptuous ottomans, and smoke superb pipes; daily to indulge in the luxuries of a bath which requires half a dozen attendants for its perfection; to court the air in a carved caique... "
The Life, Letters, and Literary Remains of Edward Bulwer, Lord Lytton - Page 313
by Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Edward Robert Bulwer Lytton Earl of Lytton - 1883
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Littell's Living Age, Volume 181

Literature - 1889 - 864 pages
...to Edward Bulwer, he says : — I confess to you that my Turkish prejudices are very much confirmed by my residence in Turkey. The life of this people greatly accords to my taste. To repose on voluptuous divans and smoke superb pipes ; daily to indulge in the luxuries...
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Lord Beaconsfield on the Constitution: "What is He?" and "A Vindication of ...

Benjamin Disraeli - Constitutional history - 1884 - 290 pages
...violet for their favourite flower. " I confess to you that my Turkish prejudices are very much confirmed by my residence in Turkey. The life of this people...to indulge in the luxuries of a bath which requires half a dozen attendants ior its perfection ; to court the air in a carved caique, by shores which are...
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 168

William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1889 - 584 pages
...imaginative style to Edward Bulwer:* ' I confess to you that my Turkish prejudices are very much confirmed by my residence in Turkey. The life of this people greatly accords with my taste. To repose on voluptuous divans, and smoke superb pipes ; daily to indulge in the luxuries of a bath...
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Littell's Living Age, Volume 180

American periodicals - 1889 - 860 pages
...style to Edward Bulwer : * — I confess to you that my Turkish prejudices are very much confirmed by my residence in Turkey. The life of this people greatly accords with my taste. To repose on voluptuous divans, and smoke superb pipes ; daily to indulge in the luxuries of a bath...
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Lord Beaconsfield

James Anthony Froude - Great Britain - 1890 - 290 pages
...wrote from Constantinople — ' I confess to you that my Turkish prejudices are very much confirmed by my residence in Turkey. The life of this people greatly accords with my taste. To repose on voluptuous divans and smoke superb pipes, daily to indulge in the luxury of a bath which...
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Queen's Quarterly, Volume 18

Humanities - 1911 - 400 pages
...somewhat indolent and melancholy." (This was the age of Byron). . . " To repose on voluptuous otto" mans and smoke superb pipes, daily to indulge in the luxuries of a "bath which requires half a dozen attendants for its perfection; to " court the air in a carved caique, by shores which...
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Benjamin Disraeli: An Unconventional Biography

Wilfrid Meynell - Diaries - 1903 - 734 pages
...violet for their favorite flower. "I confess to you that my Turkish prejudices are very much confirmed by my residence in Turkey. The life of this people...to indulge in the luxuries of a bath which requires half a dozen attendants for its perfection; to court the air in a carved caique, by shores which are...
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Memories of Eight Parlaiments: Part I.--men; Part II.-- Manners, Part 1

Sir Henry William Lucy - Great Britain - 1908 - 434 pages
...residence in Turkey. The life of this people greatly accords to my taste. To repose on voluptuous divans and smoke superb pipes ; daily to indulge in the luxuries of a bath which requires half a dozen attendants for its perfection ; to court the air in a carved caique, by shores which are...
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Memories of Eight Parliaments, Part 2

Sir Henry William Lucy - Great Britain - 1908 - 436 pages
...to Edward Bulwer, he says: — " I confess to you that my Turkish prejudices are very much confirmed by my residence in Turkey. The life of this people greatly accords to my taste. To repose on voluptuous divans and smoke superb pipes ; daily to indulge in the luxuries...
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Memories of Eight Parlaiments: Part I.--men; Part II.-- Manners, Part 1

Sir Henry William Lucy - Great Britain - 1908 - 440 pages
...Edward Bulwer, he says : — " I confess to you that my Turkish prejudices are very much confirmed by my residence in Turkey. The life of this people greatly accords to my taste. To repose on voluptuous divans and smoke superb pipes ; daily to indulge in the luxuries...
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