 | James Granger - 1769 - عدد الصفحات: 314
...? And a gown as long again as their ** body ; fo that they cannot ftir to the next room, with" out a page or two to hold it up ?" The citizens wives,...laws, and to have adopted the frugal maxims of their hufbands. There appears from Hollar's • Peck's " DeCderata Curiofa," II. lib. XV. f It was revived... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament - 1772 - عدد الصفحات: 300
...high Ihpes as they canpot walk in, without one to lead them; apd a gown as long again as their body, fo that they cannot ftir to the next room without a page or two to hold it up f I may fafely fay, that all the oftentation of our grandees is, juft like a train, of no ufe in the... | |
 | Abraham Cowley - 1772 - عدد الصفحات: 228
...high fhoes as they n-annot walk in, without one to lead them; and a gown as long again as their body, fo that they cannot ftir to the next room without a page or two to hold it up ? I may fafely fay, that all •the oftentation of our grandees is, juft like a train, of no ufe in... | |
 | 1778 - عدد الصفحات: 776
...walk in without one to lead them ? and a gown as long again as their body, fo that they cannot llir to the next room without a page or two to hold it up?" The citizens wives, « this reign, feem to have had their domeftic fumptuary laws, and to have adopted the frugal maxims... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1779 - عدد الصفحات: 418
...high flioes as they cann6t walk in, without one to lead them ; and a gown as long again as their body, fo that they cannot ftir to the next room without a page or two to hold it up ? I may fafety fay, that all the oftentation of our grandees is, jm't like a ir.au, of no uic iii the... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1779 - عدد الصفحات: 514
...they cannot \v;ilk in, without one to lead them ; and a gown as long again as their body, fo tjiat they cannot ftir to the next room without a page or two to hold it up? I may fafdy fay, that all the ofbntation of our grandees is, juft lik« t train, of no ufe in Z 3.... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1779 - عدد الصفحات: 520
...high Ihoes as they cannot walk in, without one to lead them ; and a gown as long again as their body, fo that they cannot ftir to the next room without a page «r two to hold it up? I may fafely fay» that all the oftuitaiion of our grandee* is, jut; like ;;... | |
 | 1800 - عدد الصفحات: 580
...they cannot walk «• in without one to lead them ? 4< and a gowa as long again as *' their body ; fo that they cannot »' ftir to the next room, without a " page or two to hold it up," 'I 'he citizens wives, in this reign, fecm to have had their domeilic futnptuary l.iws, and to have... | |
 | Abraham Cowley - 1806 - عدد الصفحات: 290
...walk in without one to lead them ; and a gown as long again as their body, so that they cannot stir to the next room without a page or two to hold it up ? I may safely say, that all the ostentation of our grandees is, just like a train, of no use in the... | |
 | 1807 - عدد الصفحات: 530
...walk in without one to lead them ? and a gown as long again as their body, so that they cannot stir to the next room without a Page or two to hold it up." CHARLES I. The citizens' wives in his reign seem to have had their domeslic sumptuary laws, and to... | |
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Is any thing more common than to see our ladies of qua'lity wear such high shoes as they cannot walk in without one to lead them ; and a gown as long again as their body, so that they cannot stir to the next room without a page or two to hold it up... 
