 | James Granger - Great Britain - 1769 - 314 pages
...? And a gown as long again as their ** body ; fo that they cannot ftir to the next room, with" out a page or two to hold it up ?" The citizens wives,...laws, and to have adopted the frugal maxims of their hufbands. There appears from Hollar's • Peck's " DeCderata Curiofa," II. lib. XV. f It was revived... | |
 | Abraham Cowley - 1772 - 228 pages
...degrees, Grandiot. Is any thing more common, than to fee our ladies of quality wear fuch high fhoes as they cannot walk in, without one to lead them ;...the next room without a page or two to hold it up ? I may fafely fay, that all the oftentation of our grandees is, juft like a train, of no ufe in the... | |
 | 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...the next room without a page or two to hold it up ? I may fafely fay, that all •the oftentation of our grandees is, juft like a train, of no ufe in... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament - 1772 - 300 pages
...fee our ladies of quality wear fuch high Ihpes as they canpot walk in, without one to lead them; apd a gown as long again as their body, fo that they cannot...the next room without a page or two to hold it up f I may fafely fay, that all the oftentation of our grandees is, juft like a train, of no ufe in the... | |
 | 1778 - 776 pages
...walk in without one to lead them ? and a 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 to have had their domeftic fumptuary laws, and to have adopted the frugal maxims... | |
 | 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 ;...the next room without a page or two to hold it up ? I may fafely fay, that all the oftcmtation of our grandees is, juft like a train, of no ufe in 52... | |
 | 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...the next room without a page or two to hold it up ? I may fafety fay, that all the oftentation of our grandees is, jm't like a ir.au, of no uic iii the... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 514 pages
...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 all the ofbntation of our grandees is, juft lik« t train, of no ufe in Z 3.... | |
 | History - 1800 - 580 pages
...quality wear fuch " high (boes as they cannot walk «• in without one to lead them ? 4< and a gowa as long again as *' their body ; fo that they cannot...next room, without a " page or two to hold it up," 'I 'he citizens wives, in this reign, fecm to have had their domeilic futnptuary l.iws, and to have... | |
 | History - 1800 - 586 pages
...ftirto the next room, without a •' page or two to.hold it up." The citizens wives, in this reign, fecm to have had their domeftic fumptuary laws, and to have adopted the frugal maxims of their hufbsnds. There appears from Hollar's habits, to have been a much greater difparity in point of drefs,... | |
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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... 
