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They employed a special class of servants to perform these operations of the toilet, whom the Greeks called "adorners". Their furniture increased, not merely in splendor, but in softness; their floors were covered with carpets, their beds with numerous and delicate coverlets; they could not sit upon the ground unless a cloth was first spread upon it; they would not mount a horse until he was so caparisoned that the seat on his back was softer even than their couches.
A useless multitude of lazy menials was maintained in all rich households, each servant confining himself rigidly to a single duty, and porters, bread-makers, cooks, cup-bearers, water-bearers, waiters at table, chamberlains, "awakers," "adorners," all distinct from one another, crowded each noble mansion, helping forward the general demoralization.
She lifted the book and read: "Alas!" Women, especially the younger of them, are become gadabouts, chatterers in the public ways, idle, adorners of their vain selves, pamperers of their frail tabernacles " Winsome threw down the book and almost trod upon it as upon a snake. "'Tis some city fop," she said, stamping her foot, "who is tired of the idle town dames.
Even now it gave to my actual sight what I have often tried to imagine in my visits to the English cathedrals, the pristine glory of those edifices, when they stood glowing with gold and picture, fresh from the architects' and adorners' hands.
Not a tree or a shrub grew near, but grand mountains rose up on every side. Glen Darragh means the vale of oaks, but not an oak could be seen. The singular destruction of trees in this be-battled, be-conquered island is unaccountable. Why invaders should uproot such innocent adorners of the earth is a mystery.
Two years afterwards, Borso, who had been only Marquis of Ferrara, received its ducal title from the Pope; and on going to Rome to be invested with his new honours, the name of our poet is again found among the adorners of his state.
The "artists" developed in this field of art are the tonsorial, the sartorial, and all those specialized adorners of the body commonly known as "beauty doctors." Here, as in other cases, the greatest artists are men. The greatest milliners, the greatest dressmakers and tailors, the greatest hairdressers, and the masters and designers in all our decorative toilettes and accessories, are men.
Even now it gave to my actual sight what I have often tried to imagine in my visits to the English cathedrals, the pristine glory of those edifices, when they stood glowing with gold and picture, fresh from the architects' and adorners' hands.
Hail the stoutest in war, hail the mildest in peace, Hail the darlings of Athens, the bulwarks of Greece! It ripened earlier than the others. : Variation "What a blessing is life in a noon of Spring." Variation "The adorners of Athens, the bulwarks of Greece." Variation "Keenest racers to glory, on wave or on shore, By the rush of the steed or the stroke of the oar!"
With all their warnings they had not warned him, these grave men, these instructors of youth, who had never known any world except their little world of books, who ranged women into two camps, one in which they held a docile Tennysonian place, as chaste adorners of the sacred home, mothers of children, man's property, insipid angel housekeepers of his demure middle age; the other where they were depicted as cheap, vulgar temptresses, on a level with the wine cup and the gambling table.
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