 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 Matthews Manly - 1926 - 928 sider
...THE HEAD-DRESS NO. 98. FRIDAY, JUNE 22, 1711 Tanta est quaerendi cura dccoris? — Juv. Sal. vi. 500. flee, Like a swarm of golden bees, Whe Within my own memory I have known it rise and fall above thirty 1 a crown adorned with figures of prows... | |
 | Fernando Palazzi, Silvio Spaventa Filippi - 1927 - 994 sider
...rauch in nowing anything clearly, as in feeling that there is infinitely more which cannot know. 4482. There is not so variable a thing in Nature as a lady's head-dress. 4483. Dress is characteristic of manners, and manners are tìie mirror ideas. 4486. Le mode son variazioni... | |
 | Warner Taylor - 1927 - 668 sider
...Tanta est queer -endi cur a decoris. — J«V. Sat. vi. 500. So studiously t/teir 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... | |
 | Robert Andrews - 1989 - 414 sider
...had often heard shoes described, but had never seen any. Margaret Halsey (b. 1910) American author There is not so variable a thing in nature as a lady's head-dress. Joseph Addison (1672-1719) English essayist Taking off my stays at the end of the day makes me happier... | |
 | Robert Andrews - 1993 - 1214 sider
...Wishes for the Clolhf ofHeJven. on HUMANKIND; Shaw on VISIONAKK5. IDEALISM; Dylan on NATURE; DRESS 1 olumbia University Press JOSEPH ADDISON (1672-1719). English essayist. Spectator (Iondon, July 1711). 2 The best-dressed woman... | |
 | Robert Andrews - 1997 - 666 sider
...Agrícola, set. 42. An intellectual hatred is the worst, So let her think opinions are accursed. Hats 1 There is not so variable a thing in nature as a lady's head-dress. JOSEPH ADDISON, (1672-1719) British essayist. Spectator (London, June 22, 1 71 1 ), no. 98, The Spectator,... | |
 | Julia Cherry Spruill - 1998 - 460 sider
...to the head and was surmounted by an ornamental cap. The Spectator commented thus upon the change: "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... | |
 | Shawn L. Maurer - 1998 - 330 sider
...Culture, 24). 50. Cf. also No. 98, in which Mr. Spectator had satirized women's extravagant headgear: "There is not so variable a thing in Nature as a Lady's Head-dress: W1thin my own Memory I have known it rise and fall above thirty Degrees. About ten Years ago it shot... | |
 | Daniel R. Woolf - 2003 - 454 sider
...inconsistent and desirous of novelties', changed their fashions every year." loseph Addison remarked that '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.'''" These are literary exaggerations.... | |
 | Katherine Morris Lester, Bess Viola Oerke, Helen Westermann - 2004 - 612 sider
...Late 18th Century After a drawing from Racinet. of hairdressing, Addison, in the Spectator, remarks, "There is not so variable a thing in nature as a lady's headdress. Within my memory I have known it to rise and fall above thirty degrees." And now hats had to be invented... | |
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