silks quotes

  • Wasthere ever sucha sunnystreet asthis Broadway! The pavement stones are polished with thetread of feet until they shine again† Heaven save the ladies, how they dress! We have seen more colours in these ten minutes, than we should have seen elsewhere, in as many days. What various parasols! what rainbow silks and satins! what pinking of thin stockings and pinching of thin shoes, and fluttering of ribbons and silk tassels, and display of rich cloaks with gaudy hoods and linings!

    - CharlesJohn Huffam Dickens
      American Notes.

  • When as in silks my Julia goes, Then, then (me thinks) how sweetly flows That liquefaction of her clothes.

    - Robert Herrick
      'Upon  Julia's Clothes'.

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