The single dress of a woman of quality is often the product of a hundred climates. The muff and the fan come together from the different ends of the earth. The scarf is sent from the torrid zone, and the tippet from beneath the pole. The brocade petticoat... The Spectator - Page 1121853 - 742 pagesFull view - About this book
| Joseph Addison - 1899 - 266 pages
...products of Barbadoes, and the infusion of a China plant is sweetened with the pith of an Indian cane. If we consider our own country in its natural prospect,...of commerce, what a barren, uncomfortable spot of the earth falls to our share ! " — Spectator, No. 69. Cf. Vicar of Wakefield, Chap. xxxi. P. 141,... | |
| Joseph Addison, Kenneth Deighton - 1901 - 252 pages
...quality is often the product of a hundred climates. The muff and the fan come together 10 from the different ends of the earth. The scarf is sent from...a barren, uncomfortable spot of earth falls to our snare .' Natural historians tell us, that no fruit grows originally among us besides hips and haws,... | |
| Joseph Addison - 1903 - 486 pages
...of quality is often the product of a hundred climates. The muff and the fan come together from the different ends of the earth. The scarf is sent from...torrid zone, and the tippet from beneath the pole. jrhfiJ3rocade_petticoat rises out of the mines of Peru, and the diamond necklace out of the bowels... | |
| Joseph Addison - 1903 - 266 pages
...products of Barbadoes, and the infusion of a China plant is sweetened with the pith of an Indian cane. If we consider our own country in its natural prospect,...of commerce, what a barren, uncomfortable spot of the earth falls to our share ! " — Spectator, No. 69. Cf. Vicar of Wakefield, Chap. xxxi. P. 141,... | |
| 1906 - 578 pages
...of quality is often the product of a hundred climates. The muff and the fan come together from the different ends of the earth. The scarf is sent from...barren, uncomfortable spot of earth falls to our share ! Natural historians tell us, that no fruit grows originally among us besides hips and haws, acorns,... | |
| Joseph Addison - 1906 - 410 pages
...quality is often the product of an hundred climates. 1 5 The muff and the fan come together from the different ends of the earth. The scarf is sent from...of Peru, and the diamond necklace out of the bowels 20 of Indostan. If we consider our own country in its natural prospect, without any of the benefits... | |
| George Saintsbury - 1912 - 518 pages
...of quality is often the product of a hundred climates. The muff and the fan come together from the different ends of the earth. The scarf is sent from...the diamond necklace out of the bowels of Indostan. MR. SPECTATOR — Now, Sir, the thing is this ; Mr. Shapely is the prettiest gentleman about town.... | |
| Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele - 1914 - 262 pages
...of quality is often the product of an hundred climates. The muff and the fan come together from the different ends of the earth. The scarf is sent from...tippet from beneath the pole. The brocade petticoat arises out of the mines of Peru, and the diamond necklace out of the bowels of Indostan." 12, 23. Take... | |
| Sir Henry Craik - 1917 - 648 pages
...of quality is often the product of a hundred climates. The muff and the fan come together from the different ends of the earth. The scarf is sent from...barren uncomfortable spot of earth falls to our share ! Natural historians tell us, that no fruit grows originally among us, besides hips, and haws, acorns... | |
| Harry Gordon Selfridge - 1918 - 662 pages
...outstretched arms. Long ago, in 1711, that master of the pen — Addison — wrote of England's Commerce : * " If ^we consider our own country in its natural prospect,...any of the benefits and advantages of Commerce, what an uncomfortable spot of the earth falls to bur share ! Natural historians tell us that no fruit grows... | |
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