 The female world were very busy among themselves in bartering for features ; one was trucking a lock of grey hairs for a carbuncle, another was making over a short waist for a pair of round shoulders, and a third cheapening a bad face for a lost reputation...  The Spectator - Page 16edited by - 1898Full view - About this book
 | 1789 - 428 pages
...round moulders, and a third cheapening a bad face for a loft reputation : but on all thefe occafions there was not one of them who did not think the new blemifh, as fbon as flic had got it into her pofleffion, much more difagreeable than the old one. I... | |
 | Johann Joachim Eschenaburg - 1794 - 492 pages
...round iboui*Aere , and a third cheapening a bad face for a loft reputation: But on all thefe occalions, there was not one of them who did . not think the new ЫешНЪ, as foon as fhe had got it into her pofleffion, much inore difagreeable than the old one.... | |
 | 1803 - 342 pages
...carbuncle, another was making over a short waist for a round pair of shoulders, and a third cheapening a bad face for a lost reputation : but on all these...one of them who did not think the new blemish, as scon'as she had got it into her possession, much more disagreeable than the old one. 1 made the same... | |
 | 1804 - 412 pages
...waist for a pair of round shoulders, and a third cheapening a had face for a lost reputation : but ou all these occasions there was not one of them who...the old one. I made the same observation on every ether misfortune or calamity which every one in the assembly brought upon .himself in lieu of what... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1804 - 498 pages
...third cheapening a bad face for a lost reputation : but on $11 these occasions, there was not one ot" them who did not think the new blemish, as soon as she bad got it into her possession, much more disagreeable than the old one. I made the same observation... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1808 - 494 pages
...carbuncle, another was making over a short waist for a pair of round shoulders, and a third cheapening a bad face for a lost reputation: but on all these occasions there was yOL. xiv. o not one of them who did not think the new blemish, as soon as she had got it into her possession,... | |
 | 1808 - 306 pages
...waist for a pair of round shoulders, and a third cheapening a had face for a lost reputation : hut on all these occasions there was not one of them who did not think the new hlemUh. u soou as she had got it MEN BLIND TO THEIR HAPPINESS. I99 into her possession, ranch more... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1816 - 298 pages
...fboulders ; and a third cheapening a bad face for a loft reputation : but on all thefe occafi'ins, there was not one of them who did not think the new blemifh, as foon as fhe had got it into her pofleffion, much more difagreeable than the old one. I... | |
 | 1823 - 536 pages
...carbuncle, another was making over a short waist for a pair of round shoulders, and a third cheapening a bad face for a lost reputation : but on all these...other misfortune or calamity, which every one in the assemby brought upon himself, in lieu of what he had parted with ; whether it be that all the evils... | |
 | Spectator The - 1823 - 352 pages
...lost reputation; buton all these occasions there was VOL. xiv. u not one of them who did not thiuk the new blemish, as soon as she had got it into her...calamity which every one in the assembly brought upon himselfin lieu of what he had parted with: whether it be that all the evils which befal us are in some... | |
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