Chronicles of fashion - 1845 Author:Elizabeth Stone Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: One word more of illustration. Our Queen— may enduring honour and happiness attend her and hers—has had our future King and his Royal brother and sisters carried... more » within the sacred walls of the church, and admitted into its bosom with due and fitting solemnity there. George the Third and his Queen, admirable and exemplary in their personal conduct, and ever anxious to set a good example to their people— yet had their children christened in drawing- rooms, and the consecrating water placed in punchbowls ! Had the then Archbishop of Canterbury spoken, would good King George the Third have turned a deaf ear to the words of counsel and instruction ? CHAPTER III. STARS OF FASHION. LADY MARY WORTLEY MONTAGU. " But there Belinda meets you on the stairs, Easy her shape, attracting all her airs; A smile she gives, and with a smile can wound , Her melting voice has music in the sound; Her every motion wears resistless grace ; Wit in her mien and pleasure in her face. Lady M. W. Montagu. No belle of the last century has obtained such a widely spread fame as Lady Mary Wortley Montagu—a celebrity, the endurance of which is to be attributed, without doubt, more to her remarkable literary talents than to her supremacy in the realm of fashion. Not, indeed, that there is any doubt of her claims to commemoration on this score—far otherwise; for she was at once youthful, beautiful, graceful, witty, fond of pleasure and admiration, an a high favourite in the Court and Court circles. She was undoubtedly a star of fashion, a leader of ton. Yet her character was a very peculiar, and by no means an engaging one, when divested of theroseate tinge which it derived from her beauty, fashion, and vivacity. In early life she appears to have had none of the gushing affections, unrefl...« less