Night-Cap

His own defence would, doubtless, have been a development of two lines which occur near the close of Red Cotton Night-Cap Country:

Robert Browning Dowden, Edward 1904

It is as concentrated as Red Cotton Night-Cap Country is diffuse; and the unities of time and place assist the tragic concentration.

Robert Browning Dowden, Edward 1904

To Browning such a repulsive story as that of Red Cotton Night-Cap Country served now as well as one which in earlier days would have attracted him by its grandeur or its grace.

Robert Browning Dowden, Edward 1904

Athenaeum, May 10: on ` Red Cotton Night-Cap Country '.

An Introduction to the Study of Robert Browning's Poetry Hiram Corson 1869

A.ademy, June 2: on ` Red Cotton Night-Cap Country ', by G.A. Simcox.

An Introduction to the Study of Robert Browning's Poetry Hiram Corson 1869

Clairvaux, thought "_Red_ Cotton Night-Cap Country" would be a more appropriate name; and adopted it for his story, as Miss Thackeray had adopted hers for one which she promised to write.

A Handbook to the Works of Browning (6th ed.) Sutherland Orr 1865

She had laughingly called the district "White Cotton Night-Cap Country," from its sleepy appearance, and the universal white cap of even its male inhabitants.

A Handbook to the Works of Browning (6th ed.) Sutherland Orr 1865

Place we lay at last Night, to meet with a Gentleman that had accoutered himself in a Night-Cap Wig, a Coat with long Pockets, and slit Sleeves, and a pair of Shoes with high Scollop Tops; but we soon found by his Conversation that he was a Person who laughed at the Ignorance and Rusticity of the Country People, and was resolved to live and die in the Mode.

Spectator, July 28, 1711 1711

We were, indeed, very much surprized, at the Place we lay at last Night, to meet with a Gentleman that had accoutered himself in a Night-Cap

The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays Joseph Addison 1695

-- Then to be condemn'd to lie with him -- oh, who would not rejoice to meet a Woollen-Waistcoat, and knit Night-Cap without a

The Works of Aphra Behn, Volume I Aphra Behn 1664