The British Essayists: The LoungerJ. Richardson, 1823 |
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Page 39
... dress and ornament ; she sparingly indulged in gratifications which ill accorded with our limited fortune . She weighed with admirable discretion the greater against the lesser duties of life , and made no scruple to sacrifice the one ...
... dress and ornament ; she sparingly indulged in gratifications which ill accorded with our limited fortune . She weighed with admirable discretion the greater against the lesser duties of life , and made no scruple to sacrifice the one ...
Page 42
... dress at last assembly . Then , without observing that she interrupts me by her stay , she proceeds to give me an account of all the different dresses that she took hints from , to convince me how much her superior taste had improved ...
... dress at last assembly . Then , without observing that she interrupts me by her stay , she proceeds to give me an account of all the different dresses that she took hints from , to convince me how much her superior taste had improved ...
Page 43
... dress out in his sensible persuasive manner , I think I should soon be freed from the fatigue of entertaining lounging ladies , and they would be much more suitably amused than in my working parlour . My hint , sir , is , that you would ...
... dress out in his sensible persuasive manner , I think I should soon be freed from the fatigue of entertaining lounging ladies , and they would be much more suitably amused than in my working parlour . My hint , sir , is , that you would ...
Page 48
... dress , a vanity and love of admiration unworthy of her , and unlike her former deportment . I trembled at those reports ; unsuita- ble as they were to her former character , I began to think that the very purity and simplicity of soul ...
... dress , a vanity and love of admiration unworthy of her , and unlike her former deportment . I trembled at those reports ; unsuita- ble as they were to her former character , I began to think that the very purity and simplicity of soul ...
Page 56
... till I got into what is called the Old Town , I did not know where I was , and could not recognise the ancient dusky capital of Caledonia . As I was at no time very attentive to dress , and as now I only 56 10 . THE LOUNGER .
... till I got into what is called the Old Town , I did not know where I was , and could not recognise the ancient dusky capital of Caledonia . As I was at no time very attentive to dress , and as now I only 56 10 . THE LOUNGER .
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