 | English essays - 1769 - 760 pages
...following terms : • Is any thing more common than to fee our ladies of quality wear luch high ^hoes as they cannot walk in without one to lead them ?• And a gown as long again as their bodv; fo that they cannot ftir to the next room, without a page or two to hold it up ?' The citizens... | |
 | Abraham Cowley - 1772 - 228 pages
...things, and to fome degrees, Grandiot. Is any thing more common, than to fee our ladies of quality wear fuch high fhoes as they cannot walk in, without...their body, fo that they cannot ftir to the next room without a page or two to hold it up ? I may fafely fay, that all the oftentation of our grandees is,... | |
 | Abraham Cowley - English essays - 1772 - 228 pages
...Grandios. Is any thing more common, than to fee our ladies of quality wear fuch high fhoes as they n-annot walk in, without one to lead them; and a gown as long...their body, fo that they cannot ftir to the next room without a page or two to hold it up ? I may fafely fay, that all •the oftentation of our grandees... | |
 | 1778 - 776 pages
...following terras :' " Is any thing more common than to fee our ladies of quality wear fuch high flints, as they cannot walk in without one to lead them ?...gown as long again as their body, fo that they cannot llir to the next room without a page or two to hold it up?" The citizens wives, « this reign, feem... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 424 pages
...degrees, Grandios. Is any tiling more common, than to fee our ladies of quality wear fueli high (liocs as they cannot walk in, without one to lead them ;...their body, fo that they cannot ftir to the next room without a page or two to hold it up ? I may fafely fay, that all the oftcmtation of our grandees is,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 418 pages
...Gtandios. Is any thing more common, than' to fte our ladies of quality wear fuch high flioes as they cann6t walk in, without one to lead them ; and a gown as...their body, fo that they cannot ftir to the next room without a page or two to hold it up ? I may fafety fay, that all the oftentation of our grandees is,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 514 pages
...thing more com-^ t 'on, than to (to our lailits of quality wear luc'i high lhoes as they cannot \v;ilk in, without one to lead them ; and a gown as long again as their body, fo tjiat they cannot ftir to the next room without a page or two to hold it up? I may fafdy fay, that... | |
 | History - 1800 - 586 pages
...terms. " Is any " thing more common than to fee " onr ladies of quality wear fuch •" high flioes as they cannot walk ** in without one to lead them...as long again as " their body ; fo that they cannot •' ftirto the next room, without a •' page or two to.hold it up." The citizens wives, in this reign,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1800 - 842 pages
...things, and to foi degrees, Granilios. Is any tiling more common, than to fee our ladies of qua! w.:*!' fuch high fhoes as they cannot walk in., without one to lead them ; andagoi a* long again as their body, fo that they cannot flir to the next room without a pa or two... | |
 | Abraham Cowley - English literature - 1806 - 290 pages
...degrees, Grandios. 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 ? I may safely say, that... | |
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Is any thing more common, than to see our ladies of quality 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... 
