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" No, mistresses 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. "
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing's sämmtliche Schriften - Page 41
by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing - 1857
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The English Theophrastus: Or, The Manners of the Age: Being the Modern ...

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...
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Works; Containing Plain-dealer, Country-wife, Gentleman-dancing-master [and ...

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...
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Plays Written by Mr. William Wycherley. Containing The Plain Dealer, The ...

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...
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The Country Wife a Comedy,: As it is Acted at the Theatre-Royal

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...
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The Dramatic Works of Wycherley, Congreve, Vanbrugh, and Farquhar, Volume 2

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...
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Sämmtliche Schriften, Volume 11, Part 1

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;...
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Histoire de la littérature anglaise, Volume 2

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...
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Histoire de la littérature anglaise, Volume 3

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...
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Histoire de la littérature anglaise, Volume 3

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...
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History of English Literature, Volume 1

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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