 She was sickly from her childhood until about the age of fifteen, but then grew into perfect health, and was looked upon as one of the most beautiful, graceful, and agreeable young women in London, only a little too fat. Her hair was blacker than a raven,...  Annual Registerנערך על ידי - 1765הצגת קטע - מידע על ספר זה
 | Jonathan Swift - 1900 - 298 דפים
...death, so impressive in its mixture of matter-of-fact analysis and tender memory, he tells us that " her hair was blacker than a raven, and every feature of her face in perfection." She was " one of the most beautiful, graceful and 1 "Miss" was a familiar abbreviation applied only to... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1901 - 682 דפים
...into a girl of fifteen, in perfect health. She came, he says, to be " looked upon as one of the most beautiful, graceful, and agreeable young women in...raven, and every feature of her face in perfection." On his death in January 1699, Temple left a will,1 dated l09-i, directing the payment of j£"20 each,... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1885 - 418 דפים
...the age of fifteen ; but then she grew into perfect health, and was looked upon as one of the most beautiful, graceful, and agreeable young women in...raven, and every feature of her face in perfection. "... Properly speaking " — he goes on, with a calmness which, under the circumstances, is terrible... | |
 | Alfred Ainger - 1905 - 436 דפים
...about the age of fifteen, but then grew into perfect health, and was looked upon as one of the most beautiful, graceful, and agreeable young women in...and , every feature of her face in perfection." She was eleven years old when Swift entered on his second term of service under Temple's roof (Feb. 1692May... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1907 - 502 דפים
...about the age of fifteen; but then grew into perfect health, and was looked upon as one of the most beautiful, graceful, and agreeable young women in...her face in perfection. She lived generally in the 1 Swift was entertaining some friends at his house on the evening of Esther Johnson's death. Sundays... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1907 - 444 דפים
...about the age of fifteen, but then grew into perfect health, and was looked upon as one of the most beautiful, graceful, and agreeable young women in...raven, and every feature of her face in perfection. . . . Never was any of her sex born with better gifts of the mind, or who more improved them by reading... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1908 - 582 דפים
...hair was blacker than a raven, and every feature of her face in perfection." She was " one of the most beautiful, graceful and agreeable young women in London, only a little too fat" Swift trusted her as he trusted no one else. Her greatest charm for him was her unfailing good sense.... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1908 - 458 דפים
...she was now no longer a child, but a blooming girl of eighteen. She had grown into " one of the most beautiful, graceful, and agreeable young women in London, only a little too fat " ; and there can be no question that he was much attached to her, as she to him. But that they were... | |
 | Leslie Stephen, Sir Sidney Lee - 1909 - 1408 דפים
...imperfect enough. When he returned in 1696 she had got over an early delicacy, was one of the most beautiful, graceful, and agreeable ' young women in...raven, and every feature of her face in perfection ' (' On the death of Mrs. Johnson'). Another member of the household was Rebecca Dingley, who was in... | |
 | 1910 - 450 דפים
...about the age of fifteen; but then grew into perfect health, and was looked upon as one of the most beautiful, graceful, and agreeable young women in...her face in perfection. She lived generally in the t country, with a family, where she contracted an intimate friendship with another lady of more advanced... | |
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