He found an answer to his wit in her ancles ; her foot was a repartee for a month; and after heavy weeks of unmitigated dulness and empty trifling, he still looked upon her lips as eloquence. She drove him at length, however, from all his positions and... Essays and Sketches of Character - Pàgina 183per Richard Ayton - 1825 - 274 pàginesVisualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
| 1823 - 450 pàgines
...serious, except when called upon to understand a joke. He found an answer to his wit in her ancles; her foot was a repartee for a month; and after heavy...that it improves under observation, grows less and lese objectionable the more you look into it and the better you know it ; till it becomes almost agreeable... | |
| 1823 - 732 pàgines
...serious, except when called upon to understand a joke. He found an answer to his wit in her ancles ; her foot was a repartee for a month; and after heavy...whereas beauty, we have seen, witless beauty, cannot resiat the test of long acquaintance, but declines, as you gaze, while in the full pride of its perfection... | |
| 1823 - 734 pàgines
...and defences, and he 8 now- certified that his wife is a fool. Now 'an 81-conditioned countelaticei accompanied, as it always is of course, with shining...and less objectionable the more you look into it and title better you know it ; till it feecotnes almost agreeable on its own. account— nay, really so... | |
| Frederick Saunders - 1856 - 422 pàgines
...be making themselves at once unhappy and ridiculous, by their hollow and self-betraying recusancy."* Now an ill-conditioned countenance, accompanied, as...account — nay, really so — actually pretty ; whereas beanty, we have seen, witless beanty, cannot resist the test of long acquaintance, but declines, as... | |
| Frederick Saunders - 1856 - 410 pàgines
...be making themselves at once unhappy and ridiculous, by their hollow and self-betraying recusancy."* "Now an ill-conditioned countenance, accompanied,...you look into it and the better you know it, till it become^, almost agreeable on its own account— nay, really so — actually pretty ; whereas beauty,... | |
| Frederick Saunders - 1856 - 378 pàgines
...be making themselves at once unhappy and ridiculous, by their hollow and self-betraying recusancy."* Now an ill-conditioned countenance, accompanied, as...abilities and all the arts of pleasing, has this signal compensation—that it improves under observation, grows less and less objectionable the more you look... | |
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