For when I am in presence either of father or mother, whether I speak, keep silence, sit, stand, or go, eat, drink, be merry or sad, be sewing, playing, dancing or doing anything else, I must do it, as it were, in such weight, measure and number, even... The gamester, by E. Moore. The tragedy of Jane Shore, by N. Rowe. The London ... - Page 326edited by - 1812Full view - About this book
| John Strype - 1821 - 252 pages
...am in presence either of father or . " mother, whether I speak, keep silence, sit, stand, or go, " eat, drink, be merry or sad, be sewing, playing, dancing,...thing else, I must do it as it were in such " weight, mesure and number, even so perfectly as God " made the world ; or else I am so sharply taunted, so... | |
| John Strype - 1821 - 250 pages
...am in presence either of father or ' " mother, whether I speak, keep silence, sit, stand, or go, " eat, drink, be merry or sad, be sewing, playing, dancing,...thing else, I must do it as it were in such " weight, mesure and number, even so perfectly as God " made the world ; or else I am so sharply taunted, so... | |
| 1822 - 734 pages
...when I am in presence either of father or mother, whether I speak, keep silence, sit, stand, or go, eat, drink, be merry, or sad, be sewing, playing,...it were, in such weight, measure, and number, even se perfectly, as God made the world ; or else I am so sharply taunted, so cruelly threatened; yea,... | |
| Ida Ashworth Taylor - Great Britain - 1822 - 414 pages
...when I am in presence either of father or mother, whether I speak, keep silence, sit, stand, or go, eat, drink, be merry, or sad, be sewing, playing,...I must do it, as it were, in such weight, measure, ana number, even so perfectly as God made the world : or else I am so sharply taunted, so cruelly threatened,... | |
| Mrs. Inchbald - English drama - 1824 - 404 pages
...am in the presence of either my father or mother, whether I speak, keep silence, sit, stand, ergo; eat, drink, be merry or sad ; be sewing, playing,...doing any thing else, I must do it, as it were, in snch weight, measure, and number, even so perfectly as God made the world ; or else I am so sharply... | |
| Early English newspapers - 1825 - 710 pages
...I am in presence eitlier of fa- , ther or mother, whether I speak, keep silence, sit, stand, or go, eat, drink, be merry, or sad, be sewing, playing,...it were, in such weight, measure, and number, even •o perfectly as God made the world : or elso I am so sharply taunted, so cruelly threatened, yea,... | |
| English essays - 1825 - 724 pages
...either of father or mother, whether I speak, keep silence, sit, stand, or go, eat, drink, be merrj, or sad, be sewing, playing, dancing, or doing any thing else, I must do it, aa it wot, in such weight, measure, and number, etc* »o perfectly as God made the world ; or else... | |
| William Hone - Calendars - 1868 - 846 pages
...with her artless feelings and blameless deportment, if ] hard fate call forth a versified effusion eat, drink, be merry, or sad, be sewing, playing, dancing, or doing any thing else, I most do it, as it were, in such weight, measure, and number, even so perfectly, as God made the world... | |
| William Hone - Almanacs, English - 1826 - 892 pages
...sad, be »ewintr, playing, daneinu, or doinsany thing else, I must do it, as it were, in such «fight, measure, and number, even so perfectly, as God made the world ; or else 1 am so sharply taunted, so cruelly threatened, yea presently sometimes with pinche;, nips, and bobs,... | |
| Henry Budd - Baptism - 1827 - 1150 pages
...silence, sit, stand, or go, eate, drinke ,be merie, or sad, be sowyng, playing, dancing, or doing anie thing else, I must do it, as it were, in such weight, measure, and number, even so perfitelie as God made the world, or else I am so sharplie taunted, so cruelie threatened, yea presentlie,... | |
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