 Their Petticoats, which began to heave and swell before you left us, are now blown up into a most enormous Concave, and rise every Day more and more; In short, Sir, since our Women know themselves to be out of the Eye of the "Spectator", they will be...  Putnam's Monthly - Strona 123Pełny widok - Informacje o książce
 | Henry Duff Traill, James Saumarez Mann - 1909 - Liczba stron: 442
...brought in the hoop. In 1709 the Spectator says: — "The petticoats whicli began to heave and enroll before you left us are now blown up into a most enormous concave, and rise every day more and more." 1 Malcolm, i., 242. <Jf. Swift on the china-hucksters. 2 Defoe, "Tour." i., 122. 3 Ashton, i., 74.... | |
 | Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele - 1915 - Liczba stron: 710
...Place, the fair Sex are run into great Extravagancies, Their Petticoats, which began to heave and swell before you left us, are now blown up into a most enormous Concave, and rise every Day more and morer In short, Sir, since our Women know themselves to be out of the Eye of the SPECTATOR, they will... | |
 | Shawn L. Maurer - 1998 - Liczba stron: 330
...Spectator's departure from London (he has gone to visit Sir Roger de Coverly on his country estate), "are now blown up into a most enormous Concave, and rise every Day more and more." The writer attributes to Mr. Spectator an authority worthy of any censor when he writes that "In short,... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 2007 - Liczba stron: 298
...place, the fair sex are run into great extravagancies. Their petticoats, which began to heave and swell before you left us, are now blown up into a most enormous...for the modesty of their head-dresses; for as the humour of a sick person is often driven out of one limb into another, their superfluity of ornaments,... | |
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