 | Jonathan Swift - 1823 - 342 pages
...monkey ; who hath more diverting tricks than any of you, is an animal less mischievous and expensive, might in time be a tolerable critic in velvet and brocade, and, for aught I know, would equally berome them. I would have you look upon finery as a necessary folly ; which all great ladies did, whom... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1824 - 518 pages
...monkey ; •who has more diverting tricks than any of you, is an animal less mischievous and expensive, might in time be a tolerable critic in velvet and brocade, and, for aught I Jcnow, would equally become them. I would have you look upon finery as a necessary folly ; which all... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1850 - 900 pages
...monkey ; who has more diverting tricks than any of you, is an animal lese mischievous and expensive, might in time be a tolerable critic in velvet and...become them. I would have you look upon finery as a necessary folly, which all great ladies did whom I have ever known : I do not desire you to be out... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - Women and literature - 1857 - 432 pages
...monkey ; who has more diverting tricks than any of you, is an animal less mischievous and expensive, might in time be a tolerable critic in velvet and...become them. I would have you look upon finery as a necessary folly, which all great ladies did whom I have ever known ; I do not desire you to be out... | |
 | Jonathan Swift, Thomas Roscoe - 1859 - 686 pages
...monkey ; who has more diverting tricks than any of you, is an animal less mischievous and expensive, might in time be a tolerable critic in velvet and...become them. I would have you look upon finery as a necessary folly, which all great ladies did whom I have ever known : -I do not desire you to be out... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1861 - 810 pages
...monkey; who has more diverting tricks than any of you, is an animal less mischievous and expensive, might in time be a tolerable critic in velvet and...become them. I would have you look upon finery as a necessary folly, which all great ladies did whom I have ever known : I do not desire you to be out... | |
 | Hippolyte Taine - English literature - 1863 - 696 pages
...than any of you, is an animal less mischievous and expensive, might in time be a tolerable critick in velvet and brocade, and, for aught I know, would equally become thém. n'ont épuisé la douleur humaine; ils n'ont bu de la cruelle coupe que le vin généreux, ils... | |
 | Letter writing - 1867 - 230 pages
...any of you, is an animal less mischievous and expensive, might in time be a tolerable critic in valet and brocade, and for aught I know would equally become them. I am, <Szc. LETTER XXXIV .— To the same Lady. By the same. Madam, I WOULD have you look upon finery... | |
 | 308 pages
...monkey, who has more diverting tricks than any of you, is «n animal less mischievous and expensive, might in time be a tolerable critic in velvet and...and for aught I know, would equally become them." Swift is supposed to have had very great and unusual excuse for feeling bitterly in all that related... | |
 | Hippolyte Taine - English literature - 1871 - 564 pages
...monkey ; who has more diverting tricks than any of you, is an animal less mischievous and expensive, might in time be a tolerable critic in velvet and...and, for aught I know, would equally become them. ' 1 Will poetry calm such a mind ? Here, as elsewhere, he is most unfortunate. He is excluded from... | |
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I cannot conceive you to be human creatures, but a certain sort of species hardly a degree above a monkey ; who has more diverting tricks than any of you, is an animal less mischievous and expensive, might in time be a tolerable critic in velvet and brocade,... 
