 | Jane Taylor - 1835 - 488 דפים
...lace. ' Not all the fine things that fine ladies possess, Should teach them the poor to despise, For 't is in good manners, and not in good dress. That the truest gentility lies.' THE HORSE. A HORSE, long used to bit and bridle, But always much disposed to idle, Had often wished... | |
 | Ann Taylor - 1835 - 156 דפים
...Not all the fine things that fine ladies possess, Should teach them the poor to despise ; For 'tis in good manners, and not in good dress, That the truest gentility lies.1' MEDDLESOME MATTY. OH ! how one ugly trick has spoiled The sweetest and the best ; Matilda,... | |
 | Catherine Sinclair - 1839 - 266 דפים
...BOY, Not all the fine things that fine people possess, Should teach them the poor to despise; For 'tis in good manners, and not in good dress, That the truest gentility lies. THE following Saturday morning, Frank, Harry, and Laura were assembled before Lady Harriet's breakfast... | |
 | Catherine Sinclair - 1849 - 326 דפים
...BOY. Not all the 6ne things that fine people possess Should teach them the poor to despise ; For 't is in good manners, and not in good dress, That the truest gentility lies. THE following Saturday morning, Frank, Harry, and Laura, were assembled before Lady Harriet's breakfast... | |
 | 1867 - 398 דפים
..." Not all the fine things that fine ladies possess Should teach them the poor to despise ; For 'tis in good manners, and not in good dress, That the truest gentility lies." NOBODY'S OWN. IV. — MOW CHABLEY TOUND A OOOD FRIEND.' WE promised to tell how Mrs. Smith, the poor... | |
 | Powys-land Club - 1880 - 536 דפים
...Gwell dywedyd "Bendith Duw'ny ty nac i ofyn pwy sydd i fewn ?" (It is better to say "God's blessing be in the house" than to ask who is in.) Said of a person...want of courtesy and good behaviour. "For it is in good'manners, and not in good dress, that the truest gentility lies." 631. Gwybedyn tin doraen a heda... | |
 | Jane Taylor - 1868 - 202 דפים
..." Not all the fine things that fine ladies possess Should teach them the poor to despise ; For 'tis in good manners, and not in good dress, That the truest gentility lies." MEDDLESOME MATTY. NE ugly trick has often spoil'd The sweetest and the best ; Matilda, though a pleasant... | |
 | 1869 - 588 דפים
...tho vain child who held herself to bo " better than Jenny, my nurse," and ia finally told, " For 'tis in good manners, and not in good dress, That the truest gentility lies;" are all fixed in our mind by the peculiarly lively lilt of the verse. We never enter Cavendish Square... | |
 | Catherine Douglas Bell - 1873 - 388 דפים
...if gentility means the opposite of vulgarity, that is not what the poem says. Look, it says, — ' For it is in good manners, and not in good dress, That the truest gentility lies." " "You are quicker than I am Lucy; I had not remarked that," Mrs. Lindsay said smiling. "Gentility... | |
 | Ann Taylor - 1876 - 206 דפים
...Not all the fine things that fine ladies possess, Should teach them the poor to despise ; For 'tis in good manners, and not in good dress, That the truest gentility lies." MEDDLESOME MATTY. H, how one ugly trick has spoiled The sweetest and the best ! Matilda, though a pleasant... | |
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Charlotte," her mother replied, " Belongs to no station or place ; And nothing's so vulgar as folly and pride, Though dressed in red slippers and lace. " Not all the fine things that fine ladies possess, Should teach them the poor to despise ; For 'tis... 
