 I hear likewise, that there is a great desolation among the gentlemen and ladies who were the ornaments of the town, and used to shine in plumes and diadems ; the heroes being most of them pressed, and the queens beating hemp.  The Lucubrations of Isaac Bickerstaff - Стр. 142авторы: Sir Richard Steele - 1712Полный просмотр - Подробнее о книге
 | Joseph Addison - 1856 - Страниц: 536
...nature. A tiger will sell almost as cheap as an ox ; and I am credibly informed, a man may purchase a cat with three legs, for very near the value of one with four. I hear likewise, that there is a great desolation among the gentlemen and ladies who were the ornaments of... | |
 | Henry Sutherland Edwards - 1862 - Страниц: 348
...decency, in No. 20 of the Tatter. "The theatre," he says, " is breaking, and there is a great desolation among the gentlemen and ladies who were the ornaments of the town, and used to shine in plumes and diadems, the heroes being most of them pressed, and the queens beating... | |
 | James Hogg, Florence Marryat - 1863 - Страниц: 816
...of this noble creature, as well as of many other curiosities of nature. And great is the desolation among the gentlemen and ladies who were the ornaments of the town, and used to shine in plumes and diadoms ; the heroes being most of them pressed, and the queens beating... | |
 | John Timbs - 1865 - Страниц: 338
...of this noble creature, as well as of many other curiosities of nature. And great is the desolation among the gentlemen and ladies who were the ornaments of the town, and used to shine in plumes and diadems, — the heroes being most of them pressed, and the queens beating... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1870 - Страниц: 524
...nature. A tiger will sell almost as cheap as an ox ; and I am credibly informed, a man may purchase a cat with three legs, for very near the value of one with . four. I hear likewise, that there is a great desolation among the gentlemen and ladies who were the ornaments of... | |
 | Henry Benjamin Wheatley - 1870 - Страниц: 454
...rate — " a tiger will sell almost as cheap as an ox, and I am credibly informed a man may purchase a cat with three legs for very near the value of one with four." Houses were built about this time on part of the ground, but they do not seem to have answered at first.... | |
 | John Ashton - 1882 - Страниц: 358
...Nature. A tiger will sell almost as cheap as an ox ; and I am Credibly informed, a man may purchase a cat with three legs, for very near the value of one with four. I hear likewise that there is a great desolation among the gentlemen and ladies who were the ornaments of... | |
 | Henry Benjamin Wheatley - 1891 - Страниц: 640
...nature. A tiger will sell almost as cheap as an ox ; and I am credibly informed a man may purchase a cat with three legs for very near the value of one with four. — Tht Toiler, No. 20, May 24-26, 1709. Opposite " May Fair Chapel," or " Curzon Chapel," and within... | |
 | Henry Benjamin Wheatley - 1891 - Страниц: 646
...of nature. A tiger will sell almost as cheap as an ox; and I am credibly informed a man may purchase a cat with three legs for very near the value of one with four.—The Totler, No. 20, May 24-26, 1709. Opposite "May Fair Chapel," or "Curzon Chapel," and within... | |
 | George Atherton Aitken - 1898 - Страниц: 436
...nature. A tiger will sell almost as cheap as an ox ; and I am credibly informed, a man may purchase a cat with three legs, for very near the value of one with four. I hear likewise, that there is a great desolation among the gentlemen and ladies who were the ornaments of... | |
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