| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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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