 ... women in London — only a little too fat. Her hair was blacker than a raven, and every feature of her face in perfection. .... "Properly speaking" — he goes on with a calmness which, under the circumstances, is terrible — "she has been dying...  Letters and Journals of Jonathan Swift - Página 170de Jonathan Swift - 1885 - 292 páginasVisualização completa - Sobre este livro
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1891 - 474 páginas
...circumstances, is terrible — "she has been dying six months ! . . . " Never was any of her sex born with better gifts of the mind, or who more improved them by reading and conversation. . . . All of us who had the happiness of her friendship agreed unanimously, that in an afternoon's... | |
 | 1893 - 634 páginas
...sight of the light hi the church), may be copied here. 'Never,' he says, ' was any of her sex born with better gifts of the mind, or who more improved them by reading and conversation. . . . Her advice was always the best, and with the greatest freedom, mixed with the greatest decency.... | |
 | Sir Henry Craik - 1894 - 404 páginas
...her friends. Thus far I writ the same night between eleven and twelve. Never was any of her sex born with better gifts of the mind, or who more improved...conversation. Yet her memory was not of the best, and was 1 The omission of Sir W. Temple's name is clearly due to Swift's strained relations with the family.... | |
 | Henry Austin Dobson - 1894 - 328 páginas
...escape seeing the light in the church, may be here copied. ' Never,' he says, 'was any of her sex born with better gifts of the mind, or who more improved them by reading and conversation. . . . Her advice was always the best, and with the greatest freedom, mixed with the greatest decency.... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1896 - 510 páginas
...circumstances, is terrible — "she has been dying six months ! . . . " Never was any of her sex born with better gifts of the mind, or who more improved them by reading and conversation. . . . All of us who had the happiness of her friendship agreed unanimously, that in an afternoon-s... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1897 - 478 páginas
...blacker than a raven, and every feature of her face in perfection. . . . Never was any of her sex born with better gifts of the mind, or who more improved them by reading and conversation." It is remarkable that a writer who was destined to become the greatest of English humourists, and one... | |
 | David Josiah Brewer - 1900 - 462 páginas
...sight of the light in the church), may be copied here. " Never," he says, " was any of her sex born with better gifts of the mind, or who more improved them by reading and conversation. . . . Her advice was always the best, and with the greatest freedom, mixed with the greatest decency.... | |
 | Charles Wells Moulton - 1902 - 808 páginas
...blacker than a raven, and every feature of her face in perfection. . . . Never was any of her sex born with better gifts of the mind, or who more improved...heard her make a wrong judgment of persons, books, or aifairs. Her advice was always the best, and with the greatest freedom, mixed with the greatest decency.... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1885 - 418 páginas
...circumstances, is terrible — "she has been dying six months 1 . . . " Never was any of her sex born with better gifts of the mind, or who more improved them by reading and conversation. . . . All of us who had the happiness of her friendship agreed unanimously, that in an afternoon's... | |
 | David Josiah Brewer - 1902 - 448 páginas
...sight of the light in the church ), may be copied here. " Never, " he says, " was any of her sex born with better gifts of the mind, or who more improved them by reading and conversation. . . . Her advice was always the best, and with the greatest freedom, mixed with the greatest decency.... | |
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