| Abel Boyer - 1702 - 404 pages
...allow'd. * A ([\\yMiftrefs is like a weak Place, foon got, foon lofb. * Miftrtffes are like Booh •, if you pore upon them too much, they doze you, and make you unfit for Company•, but if us'd dilcreetly , you are the fitter for Converfation by them. * Some Women pray for Husbands, that they... | |
| William Wycherley - 1713 - 462 pages
...effeminate too, they help to relifh one another. Hor. They difturb one another. Har. No, Miftreffes are like Books ; if you pore upon them too much, they...you, and make you unfit for Company,- but if us'd difcreetly, you arc the fitter for converfation by 'em. Dor. A Miftrefs Ihou'd be like a little Country... | |
| William Wycherley - 1731 - 470 pages
...effeminate too : They help to relifli one another. Horn. They difturb one another. Hare. No, Miftrefles are like Books : If you pore upon them too much, they doze you, and make you unfit for Company ; bat if us'd difcreetly, you are the fitter foe Convcrfation by "em. Dor. A Miftrefs fhou'd be like... | |
| William Wycherley - 1751 - 92 pages
...relim one another. ' I Horn. They difturb one another. ; .'' , Hare. No, Mi(tre(Tes are like Books i If you pore upon them too much, they doze, you, and make you unfit for Company ; but if us'd difcreetly, you are the fitter for Cenverfajlion by 'em, Dor. 'A Miilrefs Shou'd be like a little Country... | |
| William Wycherley, Leigh Hunt - 1840 - 782 pages
...pleasure^ you call effeminate too ; they help to relish one/another. Horn. They disturb one another. Har. No, mistresses are like books. If you pore upon them...doze you, and make you unfit for company ; but if used discreetly, you are the fitter for conversation by "em. Dor. A mistress should be like a little... | |
| Gotthold Ephraim Lessing - 1857 - 572 pages
...@е[ф!еф! unb ber Siebe ge» fc^iebfn jn fetjn. H or. Wei), a Pox on love and wenching. Women serve but to Keep a Man from better Company; though I can't...for conversation by'em. Dor. A Mistress shou'd be 4ike a little Country Retreat near the Town, not to dwell in constantly, but only for a Night and away;... | |
| Hippolyte Taine - 1863 - 738 pages
...filles pudiques. Ils ont beau polisson ner de fait, à chaque instant il faut qu'ils complimentent much, they doze you, and make you unfit for company ; but if used discretly , you arc the filter for conversation by them. A mistress should be like a Utile country... | |
| Hippolyte Taine - 1866 - 446 pages
...branche, avant que le soleil du matin en ait « séché toute la rosée3. » Ne voilà-t-il pas les gra1. Mistresses are like books ; if you pore upon them...they doze you, and make you unfit for company; but if used discretly, you are the fitter for conversation by them. A mistress should be like a little country... | |
| Hippolyte Taine - 1866 - 442 pages
...branche, avant que le soleil du matin en ait « séché toute la rosée8. » Ne voilà-t-il pas les gra1. Mistresses are like books ; if you pore upon them too much , they doze you, and make you uufit for company; but if used discretly, you are the fitter for conversation by them. A mistress should... | |
| Hippolyte Taine - 1871 - 554 pages
...desires it he is ingenious, and his gentlemen exchange happy comparisons. ' Mistresses,' says one, ' are like books : if you pore upon them too much, they...doze you, and make you unfit for company ; but if used discreetly, you are the fitter for conversation by 'em.' ' Yes,' says another, ' a mistress should... | |
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