 | Anne Grant - 1807 - 240 pages
...with me, and I like to laugh too, at times ; but the difficult thing is to get one " foft, model!, melancholy female fair," that will be grave with me, and enter into my ferious and iolemn reflexions, when I have them. I think, if there was fuch a thing allowable, or what is the fame... | |
 | Charles James Longman - 1901 - 626 pages
...complaint: ' I can always get people to laugh with me, but the difficult thing is to get one " soft, modest, melancholy female fair " that will be grave with me, and enter into my serious and solemn reflections.' Again, in her long rides over'the solitary moors she is supported... | |
 | George Paston - England - 1901 - 458 pages
...' I can always get people to laugh with me ; but the difficult thing is to get one " soft, modest, melancholy female fair" that will be grave with me, and enter into my serious and sober reflections.' Again, while riding over the lonely moors she is supported by a benevolent... | |
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I like to laugh too, at times ; but the difficult thing is to get one " foft, modeft, melancholy female fair," that will be grave with me, and enter into my ferious and Iblemn reflections, when I have them. 