 The immoderate breadth of the features made me very much out of humour with my own countenance, upon which I threw it from me like a mask. It happened very luckily that one who stood by me had just before thrown down his visage, which it seems was too...  Select British Classics - Page 201803Full view - About this book
 | Joseph Addison - 1863 - 202 pages
...held her magnifying glass full before my eyes. I no sooner saw my face in it, but I was startled at the shortness of it, which now appeared to me in its...the features made me very much out of humour with myown countenance ; upon which I threw it from me like a mask. It happened very luckily that one who... | |
 | Joseph Addison, P.P. - London. - Spectator, 1711-14 - 1864 - 344 pages
...she held her magnifying-glass full before my eyes. I no sooner saw my face in it, but was startled at the shortness of it, which now appeared to me in its...seems was too long for him. It was indeed extended to a most shameful length ; I believe the very chin was, modestly speaking, as long as my whole face.... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1864 - 470 pages
...she held her magnifying glass full before my eyes. I no sooner saw my face in it, but was startled at the shortness of it, which now appeared to me in its...seems was too long for him. It was indeed extended to a most shameful length; I believe the very chin was, modestly speaking, as long as my whole face. We... | |
 | Richard Green Parker, James Madison Watson - 1864 - 450 pages
...in its utmost aggravation. 1 The immoderate breadth of the features made me very much out oi humor with my own countenance ; upon which I threw it from me, like a mask. 10. It happened, vSry luckily, that one who stood by me had just before thrown down his visage,3 which,... | |
 | Friedrich Otto Froembling - 1866 - 438 pages
...held her magnifying-glass full before my eyes. I no sooner saw my face in it than I was startled at the shortness of it, which now appeared to me in its...seems, was too long for him. It was indeed extended to a most shameful length; I believe the very chin was, modestly speaking, as long as my whole face. As... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1870 - 688 pages
...she held her magnifying glass full before my eyes. I no sooner saw my face in it, but was startled at the shortness of it, which now appeared to me in its...was too long for him. It was, indeed, extended to a most shameful length; I believe the very chin was, modestly speaking, as long as my whole face. We... | |
 | 1870 - 720 pages
...held her magnifying-glass full before my eyes. I no sooner saw my face in it than I was startled at the shortness of it, which now appeared to me in its...very much out of humour with my own countenance, upon 20 which I threw it from me like a mask. It happened very luckily that one who stood by mo had just... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - 1870 - 444 pages
...held her magnifying glass full before my eyes. I no sooner saw my face in it, tliau I was startled at the shortness of it, which now appeared to me in its utmost aggravation.1 The immoderate breadth of the features made me very much out of humor wifh my own countenance... | |
 | 1872 - 556 pages
...she held her magnifying glass full before my eyes. I no sooner saw my face in it, but was startled at the shortness of it, which now appeared to me in its...seems was too long for him. It was indeed extended to a most shameful length, I believe the very chin was, modestly speaking, as long as my whole face. I... | |
 | School board readers - 1872 - 328 pages
...she held her magnifying glass full before my eyes. I no sooner saw my face in it, but was startled at the shortness of it, which now appeared to me in its...seems was too long for him. It was indeed extended to a most shameful length, I believe the very chin was, modestly speaking, as long as my whole face. We... | |
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