 THERE is not so variable a thing in nature as a lady's headdress. Within my own memory I have known it rise and fall above thirty degrees. About ten years ago it shot up to a very great height, insomuch that the female part of our species were much taller...  London Society - Side 861880Fuld visning - Om denne bog
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1802 - 366 sider
...22, nil. Tanta est qiurrendi cura dccoris. JUV. Sat. vi. 500. So studiously their persons they adorn. THERE is not so variable a thing in nature as a lady's head-dress. Within my own memory I have known it rise and fall above thirty degrees. About ten years ago it shot... | |
 | British essayists - 1802 - 342 sider
...22, nil. Tanta est qu&rendi cura decaris. JUV. Sat. vi. 500. So studiously their persons they adorn. THERE is not so variable a thing in nature as a lady's head-dress. Within my own memory I have known it rise and fall above thirty degrees. About ten years ago it shot... | |
 | 1804 - 676 sider
...that is not covered with some beautiful plant or flower. ADD1SOB. ON FEMALE HB AD-DRESSES. No. 98. THERE is not so variable a thing in nature as a lady's head-drcis. Within my own memory, I have known it rise and fall above thirty degrees. About ten years... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1811 - 510 sider
...etjucunda et idonea dicerc vita." ft No. 98. FRIDAY, JUNE 22. Tanta est quccrendi euro dccorii. Juv. 1 HERE is not so variable a thing in nature as a lady's head-dress: within my own memory I have known it rise and fall above thirty degrees. About ten years ago it shot... | |
 | Joseph Addison, Richard Hurd - 1811 - 504 sider
...etjucvnda et idonca diccrc vita." No. 98. FRIDAY, JUNE 22. Tuntu est qucerendi euro dccoris. Juv. 1 HERE is not so variable a thing in nature as a lady's head-dress : within my own memory I have known it rise and fall above thirty degrees. About ten years ago it shot... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1814 - 468 sider
...SPECTATOR, about this time, has the same remarks on the old head-dress, which was called a Fontange. " There is not so variable a thing in nature as a lady's headdress. Within my own memory, I have known it rise and fall above thirty degrees. About ten years ago it shot... | |
 | William Scott - 1814 - 407 sider
...ka'rii bctlcr m-viners asl get along., XI. — C/TI the Headdress^ of the Ladies. — SPECTATOR. TIIKRE is not so variable a- thing in nature, as a lady's headdress ; wilhin my own memory, I have known it rise and fall above (bitty degrees. About ten years, ago, it... | |
 | William Scott - 1817 - 414 sider
...and shall learn better manners as I get along. , XI— On the Headdress of the Ladies,— SPECTATOR. THERE is not so variable a thing in nature, as a lady's headdress ; within my own memory, I have known it rise and fall above thirty degrees. About ten years ago, it... | |
 | British essayists - 1819 - 340 sider
...22, 1711. Tanta est quarendi euro decoris. Juv. Sat. vi. 500. So studiously their persons they adorn. THERE is not so variable a thing in nature as a lady's head-dress. Within my own memory, I have known it'rise and fall above thirty degrees. About ten years ago it shot... | |
 | William Scott - 1820 - 420 sider
...shall Icam better manners as 1 get along. XI. — On the Headdress of the Ladies. — SPECTATOR. "THESE is not so variable a thing in nature, as a. lady's headdress; within my own memory,! have known it rise and fall above thirty degrees. About ten years ago, it shot... | |
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