 | Jonathan Swift - 1801 - 452 páginas
...me he is afraid she cannot live long. I am heartily sorry for her ; she has very generous principles for one of her sort ; and a great deal of good sense and invention : she is about forty, very homely and very fat. Mrs. Van made me dine with her to day. I was this morning... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1801 - 452 páginas
...me he is afraid she cannot live long. I am heartily sorry for her ; she has very generous principles for one of her sort ; and a great deal of good sense and invention : she is about forty, very homely and very fat. Mrs. Van made me dine with her to day. I was this morning... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1814 - 462 páginas
...me he is afraid she cannot live long. I am heartily sorry for her ; she has very generous principles for one of her sort ; and a great deal of good sense and invention : she is about forty, very homely, and very fat. * Mrs Van made me dine with her to-day. I * In a romance... | |
 | John Campbell Baron Campbell - 1849 - 696 páginas
...Stella, " is very Panegyric ill ; the printer tells me he is afraid she cannot live long. I M'. .^j "" b am heartily sorry for her ; she has very generous...publication with the slightest claim to respectability. On the other hand, I have had access to documents in Refutation which, had the story been true, there... | |
 | John Campbell Baron Campbell - 1851 - 534 páginas
...me he is afraid she cannot live long. I am heartily sorry for her ; she has very generous principles for one of her sort,* and a great deal of good sense and invention. "t General rumour can go for nothing where such arts are used to poison the public mind. The charge... | |
 | John Cordy Jeaffreson - 1858 - 426 páginas
...me he is afraid she cannot live long. I am heartily sorry for her : she has very generous principles for one of her sort, and a great deal of good sense and invention ; she is about forty : very homely and very fat.' De la Riviere did not regard herself with the Dean's... | |
 | 1858 - 34 páginas
...me he is afraid she cannot live long. I am heartily sorry for her: she has very generous principles for one of her sort, and a great deal of good sense and invention." Then follow in rapid succession Fielding, Richardson, Smollett, Sterne, Goldsmith, Mackenzie, Madame... | |
 | 1858 - 456 páginas
...he is afraid she cannot live- long. I am heartily sorry for her : she has very generous principles for one of her sort, and a great deal of good sense and invention." Then follow in rapid succession Fielding, Richardson, Smollett, Sterne, Goldsmith, Mackenzie, Madame... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1895 - 788 páginas
...me he is afraid she cannot live long. I am heartily sorry for her ; she has very generous principles for one of her sort, and a great deal of good sense and invention. She is about forty, very homely, and very fat.' An earlier passage in the 'Journal1 testifies to her... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1879 - 428 páginas
...Stella' (January 28, 1711-12), draws this portrait of Mrs. Manley : ' Hie has very generous principles for one of her sort, and a great deal of good sense and invention: she is about foity, very homely, and very fat.' She found favour, however, with Swift's friend, Alderman... | |
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Poor Mrs Manley, the author, is very ill of a dropsy and sore leg ; the printer tells me he is afraid she cannot live long. I am heartily sorry for her ; she has very generous principles for one of her sort; and a great deal of good sense and invention... 
