 | 1809 - 530 pages
...determination, a,nd I durst not trifle with so important a deposite. Nor have I any cause to repent it. If I have not got polite tattle, modish • manners, and fashionable dress, I am not sickened mid disgusted with the multiform curse of boarding-school affectation ; and I have got the handsomest... | |
 | Enos Bronson - Literature, Modern - 1809 - 458 pages
...determination, and 1 durst not trifle with so important a deposite. Nor have I any cause to repent it. If I have not got polite tattle, modish manners, and fashionable...Mrs. Burns believes, as" firmly as her creed, that 1 am le plus bel esprit, et IF plus honnеte homme in the universe ; although she scarcely ever in... | |
 | 1809 - 914 pages
...determination, and I durst not trifle with so important a deposite. Nor have I any cause to repent it. If I have not got polite tattle, modish manners, and fashionable...handsomest figure, the sweetest temper, the soundest constitu« tion, and the kindest heart in the county. Mrs. Jiurns believes, as firmly as her creed,... | |
 | 1809 - 448 pages
...Nor have I any cause to repent it. If I have not got polite tattle, modish manners, and fashionahle dress, I am not sickened and disgusted with the multiform curse of hoarding-school affectation ; and I have got the handsomest figure, the sweetest temper, the soundest... | |
 | Robert Burns - Scotland - 1815 - 344 pages
...fashionahle dress, I am not siekened and disgusted with the multiform eurse of hoarding-sehool afleetation ; and I have got the handsomest figure, the sweetest temper, the soundest eonstitution, and the kindest heart in the eounty. Mrs. Burns helieves, as firmly as her ereed, that... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1819 - 658 pages
...determination, and I durst not trifle with so important a deposit. Nor have I any cause to repent it. If I have not got polite tattle, modish manners, and fashionable...soundest constitution, and the kindest heart in the country. Mrs. Burns believes, as firmly as her creed, that I am le plus bel esprit, et le plut honnete... | |
 | John Gibson Lockhart - Poets, Scottish - 1828 - 324 pages
...lady,) — " but," he contmues, " I h,ave •An cause to repent it. If I have not got polite tottle, modish manners, and fashionable dress, I •am not sickened and disgusted with the multi' curse of boarding-school affectation ; and I ' • See General Comdpondence, No. 63 ; and Reliquet,... | |
 | John Gibson Lockhart - Poets, Scottish - 1830 - 340 pages
...— he is addressing a young lady, — " but, " he continues, " I have no cause to repent it. If I have not got polite tattle, modish manners, and fashionable...got the handsomest figure, the sweetest temper, the sound* See General Correspondence, No. 53; and Reliques, p. 60. est constitution, and the kindest heart... | |
 | John Gibson Lockhart - 1831 - 338 pages
...— (he is addressing a young lady,) — " but," he continues, "I have no cause to repent it. If I have not got polite tattle, modish manners, and fashionable...multiform curse of boarding-school affectation ; and I * See General Correspondence, No. 53 ; and Reliquea, page 60. have got the handsomest figure, the sweetest... | |
 | Robert Burns - Ballads, Scots - 1834 - 420 pages
...so important a deposit, nor have I any cause to repent it. If I have not got polite tittle-tattle, modish manners, and fashionable dress, I am not sickened...the sweetest temper, the soundest constitution, and kindest heart in the country. A certain late publication of Scots poems she has perused very devoutly,... | |
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Nor have I any cause to repent it. If I have not got polite tattle, modish manners, and fashionable dress, I am not sickened and disgusted with the multiform curse of boarding-school affectation; and I have got the handsomest figure, the sweetest temper,... 
