 | Jonathan Swift, John Francis Waller - 1865 - Liczba stron: 414
...was looked upon as one of the most beautiful, graceful, and agreeable young women in London. Her hair was blacker than a raven, and every feature of her face in perfection." Allowing for the extravagance of a lover's estimate, the portraits that still exist bear out this description.... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1867 - Liczba stron: 334
...the most beautiful, graceful, and agreeable young women in London — only a little too fat. Her hair was blacker than a raven, and every feature of her face in perfection. which, under the circumstances, is terrible — " she has been dying six months!" "Properly speaking"... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1869 - Liczba stron: 414
...the most beautiful, graceful, and agreeable young women in London — only a little too fat. Her hair was blacker than a raven, and every feature of her face in perfection. ". . . . Properly speaking " — he goes on, with a calmness which, under the circumstances, is terrible... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1869 - Liczba stron: 410
...most beautiful, .graceful, and agreeable young women in London — only a little too fat. Her hair was blacker than a raven, and every feature of her face in perfection. ". . . . Properly speaking " — he goes on, with a calmness which, under ' the circumstances, is terrible... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1869 - Liczba stron: 414
...the most beautiful, graceful, and agreeable young women in London — only a little too fat. Her hair was blacker than a raven, and every feature of her face in perfection. ". . . . Properly speaking " — he goes on, with a calmness which, under the circumstances, is terrible... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1869 - Liczba stron: 410
...the most beautiful, graceful, and agreeable young women in London — only a little too fat. Her hair was blacker than a raven, and every feature of her face in perfection. ". . . . Properly speaking " — he goes on, with a calmness which, under the circumstances, is terrible... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1872 - Liczba stron: 660
...the most beautiful, graceful, and agreeable young women in London — only a little too fat. Her hair was blacker than a raven, and every feature of her face in perfection. " Properly speaking," he goes on, with a calmness which, under the circumstances, is terrible — "she... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1873 - Liczba stron: 610
...in Letter IV. of graceful, and agreeable young women in London — only a little too fat. Her hair was blacker than a raven, and every feature of her face in perfeetion. "... Properly speaking" — he goes on, with a calmness wfcich, under the circumstances,... | |
 | 1874 - Liczba stron: 852
...the most beautiful, graceful and agreeable young women in London — only a little too fat. Her hair was blacker than a raven, and every feature of her face in perfection. * * * Never was any of her sex born with better gifts of the mind." Then he wrote out some "Bon mots... | |
 | Edward Isidore Sears - 1874 - Liczba stron: 426
...the most beautiful, graceful and agreeable young women in London— only a little too fat. Her hair was blacker than a raven, and every feature of her face in perfection. * * * Never was any of her sex born with better gifts of the mind." Then he wrote out nomc " Bon mots... | |
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She was sickly from her childhood until about the age of fifteen ; but then grew into perfect health, and was looked upon as one of the most beautiful, graceful, and agreeable young women in London, only a little too fat. Her hair was blacker than a raven,... 
