If in a familiar epistle you should be playful and jocular, guard carefully that your wit be not sharp, so as to give pain to any person; and before you write a sentence, examine it, even the words of which it is composed, that there be nothing vulgar... Selected Writings of Thomas Godolphin Rooper - Pàgina 209per Thomas Godolphin Rooper - 1907 - 293 pàginesVisualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
| William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1828 - 608 pàgines
...words of which it is composed, that there be nothing vulgar or inelegant in them. Remember, my dear, that your letter is the picture of your brains ; and...blame to exhibit them to the contempt of the world, or the pity of their friends. To write a letter with negligence, without proper stops, with crooked... | |
| Cuthbert Collingwood Baron Collingwood, George Lewes Newnham Collingwood - 1828 - 440 pàgines
...words of which it is composed, that there be nothing vulgar or inelegant in them. Remember, my dear, that your letter is the picture of your brains ; and...blame to exhibit them to the contempt of the world, or the pity of their friends. To write a letter with negligence, without proper stops, with crooked... | |
| 1828 - 598 pàgines
...words of which it is composed, that there be be nothing vulgar or inelegant in them. Remember, my dear, that your letter is the picture of your brains ; and...blame to exhibit them to the contempt of the world, or the pity of their friends. To write a letter with negligence, without proper stops, with crooked... | |
| William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1828 - 626 pàgines
...words of which it is composed, that there be nothing vulgar or inelegant in them. Remember, my dear, that your letter is the picture of your brains ; and...blame to exhibit them to the contempt of the world, or the pity of their friends. To write a letter with negligence, without proper stops, with crooked... | |
| William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1828 - 608 pàgines
...it is composed, that there be be nothing vulgar or inelegant in them. Remember, my dear, that yonr letter is the picture of your brains ; and those whose...blame to exhibit them to the contempt of the world, or the pity of their friends. To write a letter with negligence, without proper stops, with crooked... | |
| John S. Skinner - 1828 - 438 pàgines
...composed, that there be lothing vulgar nor inelegant iu them. Remember my dear, that your letter is a picture of your brains, And those whose brains are...blame to exhibit them to the contempt of the world, or the pity >! their friend. To write a letter with negligence, without proper stops, and crooked lines... | |
| 1829 - 598 pàgines
...words of which it is composed, that there be nothing vulgar or inelegant in them. Remember, my dear, that your letter is the picture of your brains ; and...blame to exhibit them to the contempt of the world, or the pity of their friends. To write a letter with negligence, without proper stops, with crooked... | |
| Bela Bates Edwards - 1832 - 338 pàgines
...words of which it is composed, that there be nothing vulgar or inelegant in them. Remember, my dear, that your letter is the picture of your brains ; and...blame to exhibit them to the contempt of the world, or the pity of their friends. To write a letter with negligence, without proper stops, with crooked... | |
| Horace Walpole (4th earl of Orford.) - 1840 - 616 pàgines
...words of which it is composed, that there be nothing vulgar or inelegant in them. Remember, my dear, that your letter is the picture of your brains ; and...blame to exhibit them to the contempt of the world, or the pity of their friends. To write a letter with negligence, without proper stops, with crooked... | |
| Selected letters - 1842 - 318 pàgines
...words of which it is composed, that there be nothing vulgar or inelegant in them. Remember, my dear, that your letter is the picture of your brains ; and...blame to exhibit them to the contempt of the world, or the pity of their friends. To write a letter with negligence, without proper stops, with crooked... | |
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