 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
 | Colin Bingham - 2006 - 428 sider
...Rolnick, recently declared that although women's styles might change, their designs would remain the same! 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 - 1961 - 278 sider
...HEAD-DRESSES Tanta est quaerendl cura decoris. JUV. Sat. vl. 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, 1 have known it rise and fall above thirty degrees. About ten years ago it shot... | |
 | Nicholas Murray Butler, Frank Pierrepont Graves, William McAndrew - 1919 - 472 sider
...sweep out. Fashion plays constant pranks with a lady's hair. Addison says in the Spectator of 1718: "There is not so• variable a thing in nature as a Lady's head-dress; within my memory I have known it to rise and fall above thirty degrees." In the reign of Henry VI ladies... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 278 sider
...HEAD-DRESSES Tanta est qtuerendi cura decoris. Juv. Sai. vi. 500 So studiously their persons they adorn. THERB 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... | |
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