 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 86redigeret af - 1880Fuld visning - Om denne bog
 | John Thomas Scharf, Thompson Westcott - 1884 - 1012 sider
...and Addison could not have said of the ladies of Philadelphia as he did of the London belles, — " There is not so variable a thing in nature as a lady's head-dress. Within tny own memory I have known it rise and fall above thirty degrees. About ten years ago it shot... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1887 - 216 sider
...the changed fashion of the head-dress in London. Writing on June 22 (No. 98), Addison says : — " 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... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1892 - 248 sider
...[Addison. Tanta est quserendi cura decoris. — Juv. Sat. vi. 500. So studiously their persons they adorn. 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... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1893 - 212 sider
...passing so much of my time among his poultry. He has caught me twice or thrice looking tor, No. 98 : " 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 thirty years ago it... | |
 | Sir Henry Craik - 1894 - 648 sider
...an accession of other estates as valuable as the lands themselves. HEAD-DRESSES (Spectator, No. 98.) 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... | |
 | Sir Henry Craik - 1894 - 648 sider
...an accession of other estates as valuable as the lands themselves. HEAD-DRESSES (Spectator, No. 98.) 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... | |
 | Sir Henry Craik - 1894 - 674 sider
...an accession of other estates as valuable as the lands themselves. HEAD-DRESSES {Spectator, No. 98.) 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... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1896 - 346 sider
...profound Veneration, Yours, etc." Addison. (fi Head-dresses Tanta estquarendi cura decoris.—Juv. 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... | |
 | George Gregory Smith - 1897 - 356 sider
...Second Year of our Reign/ T No, 98, [ADDISON,] Friday, June 22, Tanta cst quaerendi cura decoris,—Juv, 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... | |
 | Pratt Institute - 1898 - 524 sider
...to call off the eye from the great and real beauties to childish gew-gaws, ribbands and bone-lace. " There is not so variable a thing in nature as a lady's head-dress. Within my own memory I have known it to rise and fall within thirty degrees." Addison, in the Spectator.... | |
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