 | Hippolyte Adolphe Taine - 1871 - 570 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 great... | |
 | Mary Clemmer - 1873 - 264 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." History lias not recorded Low refined or sensitive by nature the English maiden was who received this... | |
 | Jennie Fowler Willing - Conduct of life - 1880 - 254 pages
...monkey, who has more diverting tricks than \any of you, is an animal less mischievous and v /expensive, might, in time, be a tolerable critic in : velvet...brocade, and for aught I know would equally become them." Phidias said of his statue of Minerva, " Give it the light of the public square." In giving this question... | |
 | Jonathan Swift, Sir Walter Scott - 1883 - 496 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, Sir Walter Scott - 1883 - 494 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 - 1883 - 488 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... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - English wit and humor - 1885 - 572 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 know, would equally become them. Der Vergleich mit dem Affen soll aber eben abschreckend wirken. 11 8) to rant and rave, rappeln und... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - English prose literature - 1886 - 402 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 - 1890 - 528 pages
...ix. 186. 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." i Will poetry calm such a mind ? Here, as elsewhere, he is most unfortunate. He is excluded from great... | |
 | Catherine Jane Hamilton - Authors, English - 1892 - 334 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...and, for aught I know, would equally become them." As the century went on, a new state of things set in. Women were no longer absorbed in cards and dress.... | |
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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,... 
