The Works, Zväzok 9Houghton, Mifflin, 1883 |
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... Marriage , Resolutions when I come to be Old , • • Thoughts on Various Subjects , Moral and Diverting , A Treatise on Good Manners and Good Breeding , Hints on Good Manners ,. Of Mean and Great Figures , made by several Persons , Of ...
... Marriage , Resolutions when I come to be Old , • • Thoughts on Various Subjects , Moral and Diverting , A Treatise on Good Manners and Good Breeding , Hints on Good Manners ,. Of Mean and Great Figures , made by several Persons , Of ...
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... Married Lady , and Thoughts on Education , point out the extent of those studies , which embraced a general knowledge of history , some taste for poetry , and a general acquaintance with K of her sex . To hear her talk seraphics 4 ...
... Married Lady , and Thoughts on Education , point out the extent of those studies , which embraced a general knowledge of history , some taste for poetry , and a general acquaintance with K of her sex . To hear her talk seraphics 4 ...
Strana 57
... married king's daughters . Among other things , I met this sage observation , ' That a lion would never hurt a true virgin . ' With this medley of nonsense in my fancy , I went to bed , and dreamed that a friend waked me in the morning ...
... married king's daughters . Among other things , I met this sage observation , ' That a lion would never hurt a true virgin . ' With this medley of nonsense in my fancy , I went to bed , and dreamed that a friend waked me in the morning ...
Strana 58
Jonathan Swift Walter Scott. married , if she affirmed herself to be a virgin , she must on her wedding day , and in her wedding clothes , perform the ceremony ... married in our church since his worship came among 58 MISCELLANEOUS PAPERS .
Jonathan Swift Walter Scott. married , if she affirmed herself to be a virgin , she must on her wedding day , and in her wedding clothes , perform the ceremony ... married in our church since his worship came among 58 MISCELLANEOUS PAPERS .
Strana 59
Jonathan Swift Walter Scott. couple married in our church since his worship came among us . The virgins hereabouts are too wise to venture the claws of the lion ; and , because nobody will marry them , have all entered into a vow of vir ...
Jonathan Swift Walter Scott. couple married in our church since his worship came among us . The virgins hereabouts are too wise to venture the claws of the lion ; and , because nobody will marry them , have all entered into a vow of vir ...
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Strana 121 - ... his green boughs, and left him a withered trunk : he then flies to art, and puts on a periwig, valuing himself upon an unnatural bundle of hairs, (all covered with powder,) that never grew on his head ; but now, should this our broomstick pretend to enter the...
Strana 121 - THIS single stick, which you now behold ingloriously lying in that neglected corner, I once knew in a flourishing state in a forest; it was full of sap, full of leaves, and full of boughs; but now, in vain does the busy art of man pretend to...
Strana 340 - A Complete Collection Of Genteel and Ingenious Conversation, According to the Most Polite Mode and Method Now Used At Court, and in the Best Companies of England.
Strana 275 - This day, being Sunday, January 28th, 1727-8, about eight o'clock at night, a servant brought me a note, with an account of the death of the truest, most virtuous, and valuable friend, that I, or perhaps any other person ever was blessed with.
Strana 362 - But every single character in Shakespeare is as much an individual, as those in life itself; it is as impossible to find any two alike; and such as from their relation or affinity in any respect appear most to be twins, will upon comparison be found remarkably distinct.
Strana 362 - ... had all the speeches been printed without the very names of the persons, I believe one might have applied them with certainty to every speaker.
Strana 141 - ... and even then our best writings might probably' be preserved with care, and grow into esteem, and the authors have a chance for immortality.
Strana 223 - What they do in heaven we are ignorant of; what they do not we are told expressly, that they neither marry, nor are given in marriage.
Strana 143 - From the civil war to this present time, I am apt to doubt, whether the corruptions in our language have not at least equalled the refinements of it ; and these corruptions very few of the best authors in our age have wholly escaped.
Strana 137 - My lord, I do here, in the name of all the learned and polite persons of the nation, complain to your lordship, as first minister, that our language is extremely imperfect; that its daily improvements are by no means in proportion to its daily corruptions; that the pretenders to polish and refine it, have chiefly multiplied abuses and absurdities; and that in many instances it offends against every part of grammar.