 | Abraham Cowley - 1826 - 298 páginas
...walk in, without one to lead them ; and a gown as long again as their body, so that they cannot stir to the next room, without a page or two to hold it up ? I may safely say, that all the ostentation of our grandees is, just like a train, of no use in the... | |
 | Abraham Cowley - 1826 - 296 páginas
...walk in, without one to lead them ; and a gown as long again as their body, so that they cannot stir to the next room, without a page or two to hold it up ? I may safely say, that all the ostentation of our grandees is, just like a train, of no use in the... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1834 - 680 páginas
...walk in, without one to lead them ; and a gown as long again as their body, so that they cannot stir to the next room without a page or two to hold it up Î I may safely say, that all the ostentation of our grandees is, just like a train, of no use in the... | |
 | Editor of The family manual and servant's guide - 1835 - 476 páginas
...walk in without one to lead them ? And a gown as long again as their body ; so that they cannot stir to the next room, without a page or two to hold it up?" Yet, the citizens' wives appear to have dressed with exemplary plainness, until about the year 1688,... | |
 | 1841 - 780 páginas
...walk in without one to lead them ? and a gown as long again as their body, so that they cannot stir to the next room without a page or two to hold it up ? " Cowley places the summit of worldly happiness in the possession of aa annual income oí five hundred... | |
 | Robert Eldridge Aris Willmott - 1849 - 256 páginas
...walk in without one to lead them, and a gown as long again as their body, so that they cannot stir to the next room without a page or two to hold it up." The honour bestowed on Cowley and Richardson was afterwards shared by Gray. Home, the author of Douglas,... | |
 | Gideon Hiram Hollister - 1857 - 630 páginas
...one or two pages were employed to carry the trail. Thus the poet Cowley, remarks—" They cannot stir to the next room without a page or two to hold it up.3' During the last century, "hooped skirts'9 "were common. The form of them varied at different... | |
 | Robert Eldridge Aris Willmott - 1858 - 236 páginas
...walk in without one to lead them, and a gown as long again as their body, so that they cannot stir to the next room without a page or two to hold it up?" The honour bestowed on Cowley and Richardson was afterwards shared by Gray. Home, the author of Douglas,... | |
 | Gideon Hiram Hollister - 1858 - 666 páginas
...or two pages were employed to carry the trail. Thus the poet Cowley, remarks — " They cannot stir to the next room without a page or two to hold it up." During the last century, "hooped skirts" were common. The form of them varied at different periods.... | |
 | Abraham Cowley - 1868 - 240 páginas
...walk in, without one to lead them ; and a gown as long again as their body, so that they cannot stir to the next room, without a page or two to hold it up ? I may safely say, that all the ostentation of our grandees is, just like a train, of no use in the... | |
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Is any thing more common than to see our ladies of qua'lity wear such high shoes as they cannot walk in without one to lead them ; and a gown as long again as their body, so that they cannot stir to the next room without a page or two to hold it up... 
