| Jonathan Swift - 1801 - 416 pàgines
...affairs. Her advice was always the best, and with the greatest freedom, mixed with the greateft decency. She had a gracefulness, somewhat more than human, in every motion, word, and action. Never was so happy a conjunction of civility, freedom, easiness, and sincerity. There seemed to be.... | |
| Jonathan Swift - 1801 - 418 pàgines
...affairs. Her advice was always the best, and with the greatest freedom, mixed with the greateft decency. She had a gracefulness, somewhat more than human, in every motion, word, and action. Never was so happy a conjunction of civility, freedom, easiness, and sinicerity. There seemed to be... | |
| Jonathan Swift, Walter Scott - 1814 - 558 pàgines
...affairs Her advice was always the best, and with the greatest freedom mixed with the greatest decency. She had a gracefulness, somewhat more than human, in every motion, word, and action. Never was so happy a conjunction of civility, freedom, easiness, and sincerity. There seemed to be... | |
| Jonathan Swift - 1814 - 564 pàgines
...affairs Her advice was always the best, and with the greatest freedom mixed with the greatest decency. She had a gracefulness, somewhat more than human, in every motion, word, and action. Never was so happy a conjunction of civility, freedom, easiness, and sincerity. There seemed to be... | |
| Francis Wrangham - 1816 - 530 pàgines
...' never swerved, in any one deed or moment of her life, from the principles of honour and virtue;' had * a gracefulness, somewhat more than human, in every motion, word, and action;' was not at any time known to ' cry out or discover any fear in a coach or on horseback, or any uneasiness... | |
| Jonathan Swift - 1824 - 556 pàgines
...earth ; but on the subject of his wretchedness, you must never ask a question."* Swift secluded himself Would he deny his marriage with a woman of good fortune...text, and form the best opinion which he can upon an event which, take it either way, is enveloped in mystery and inconsistency. * It is proper to state,... | |
| sir Walter Scott (bart [prose, collected]) - 1827 - 560 pàgines
...earth ; but on the subject of his wretchedness, you must never ask a question."* Swift secluded himself Would he deny his marriage with a woman of good fortune...text, and form the best opinion which he can upon an event which, take it either way, is enveloped in mystery and inconsistency. * It is proper to state,... | |
| Walter Scott - 1827 - 550 pàgines
...earth ; hut on the suhject of his wretchedness, you must never ask a question."* Swift secluded himself Would he deny his marriage with a woman of good fortune...of this reasoning, compared with the circumstances hrought together in the text, and form the hest opinion which he can upon an event which, take it either... | |
| Walter Scott - 1829 - 380 pàgines
...and so he distinguished every book she gave him : Esther Johnson's gift to Jonathan Swift — 1719. Would he deny his marriage with a woman of good fortune...text, and form the best opinion which he can upon an event which, take it either way, is enveloped in mystery and inconsistency. * It is proper to state,... | |
| Walter Scott - 1829 - 388 pàgines
...and so he distinguished every book she gave him : Esther Johnson's gift to Jonathan Swift— 1719. Would he deny his marriage with a woman of good fortune...a gracefulness somewhat more than human, in every miltion, word, and action?'" The reader must judge of the force of this reasoning, compared with the... | |
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