And sensible soft melancholy. "Has she no faults then, (Envy says) Sir?" Yes, she has one, I must aver; When all the world conspires to praise her, The woman's deaf, and does not hear. The Works - Página 78de Jonathan Swift - 1803Visualização completa - Sobre este livro
| Henry Philip Dodd - 1870 - 652 páginas
...aw'd by rumour ; Not grave through pride, nor gay through folly ; An equal mixture of good-humour, And sensible soft melancholy. " Has she no faults...aver : When all the world conspires to praise her, The woman's deaf and does not hear. Tho lady thus highly praised was Henrietta, wifo of Charles Howard,... | |
| Epigrammatists - 1870 - 654 páginas
...by rumour ; Not grave through pride, nor gay through folly An equal mixture of good-humour, " lias she no faults then (Envy says), sir ?' Yes she has...aver : When all the world conspires to praise her, The woman's deaf and does not hear. The lady thus highly praised was Henrietta, wife of Charles Howard,... | |
| William Makepeace Thackeray - 1872 - 660 páginas
...rumour, Not grave through pride, or gay through folly : An equal mixture of good-humour And exquisite soft melancholy. " Has she no faults, then (Envy says),...aver — When all the world conspires to praise her, The woman's deaf, and' does not hear ! " Even the women concurred in praising and loving her. The Duchess... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1872 - 744 páginas
...through pride, or gay through folly, An equal mixture of good humour, And sensible soft melancholy. 3 ' Has she no faults, then (Envy says), sir ? ' Yes,...aver : When all the world conspires to praise her, The woman 's deaf, and does not hear. ON HIS GROTTO AT TWICKENHAM, COMPOSED OF MARBLES, SPARS, GEMS,... | |
| Charles Stokes Carey - 1872 - 314 páginas
...An equal mixture of good-humour, And sensible soft melancholy. Has she no faults then, Malice saj-s, Sir ? Yes, she has one, I must aver ; — • When all the world conspires to praise her, The woman's deaf, and does not hear. — Pope. ON BISHOP ATTERBURY'S BURYING THE DUKE OF BUCKINGHAM.... | |
| William Makepeace Thackeray - 1873 - 610 páginas
...through folly : An equal mixture of good-humor And exquisite soft melancholy. " Has she no fanlts, then (Envy says), sir ? Yes, she has one, I must aver — When all the world conspires to praise her, The woman's deaf, and does not hear I" Even the women concurred in praising and loving her. The Duchess... | |
| William Makepeace Thackeray - 1901 - 414 páginas
...rumour, Not grave through pride, or gay through folly : An equal mixture of good-humour And exquisite soft melancholy. " Has she no faults, then (Envy says),...aver — When all the world conspires to praise her, The woman's deaf, and does not hear ! " Even the women concurred in praising and loving her. The Duchess... | |
| William Makepeace Thackeray - 1910 - 480 páginas
...pride, or gay through folly : An equal mixture of good-humour And exquisite soft melancholy. " Has sho no faults, then (Envy says), sir ? Yes, she has one,...aver — When all the world conspires to praise her, The woman's deaf, and docs not hear ! " Even the women concurred in praising and loving her. The Duchess... | |
| 1875 - 932 páginas
...CHAPTER XIV. — EMILY. " Not warp'd by passion, awed by rumour, Not grave through pride, nor gay through folly, An equal mixture of good humour, And sensible,...aver ; When all the world conspires to praise her The woman's deaf, ana docs not hear.' " JOHN MORTIMER was sitting at breakfast the very morning after... | |
| Jean Ingelow - 1875 - 518 páginas
...CHAPTER XIV. EMILY. " Not warpM by passion, awed by rumout, Not grave through pride, nor gay through folly, An equal mixture of good humour, And sensible,...aver ; "When all the world conspires to praise her The woman's deaf, and does not hear.' " JOHN MORTIMER was sitting at breakfast the very morning after... | |
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