 | James Boswell - 1807 - 532 sider
...live double." About this time it was much the fashion for several ladies to have evening assemblies, where the fair sex might participate in conversation with literary and ingenious men, animated by a desire to please. These societies weredenominated Blue-stocking Clubs, the origin of which title... | |
 | James Boswell - 1807 - 562 sider
...live double." About this time it was much the fashion for several ladies to have evening assemblies, where the fair sex might participate in conversation with literary and ingenious men, animated by a desire to please. These societies were denominated Blue-stocking Clubs, the origin of which title... | |
 | James Boswell - 1817 - 536 sider
...where the fair sex might participate in < IIM rsatiou with literary and ingenious men, animated by a desire to please. These societies were denominated Blue-Stocking Clubs, the origin of which title being little known, it may be worth while to relate it. One of the most eminent members of those... | |
 | James Boswell - 1820 - 550 sider
...live double. About this time it was much the fashion for several ladies to have evening assemblies, where the fair sex might participate in conversation with literary and ingenious men, animated by a desire to please. These societies were denominated Blue-Stocking Ciulfi, the origin of which title... | |
 | James Boswell - 1820 - 476 sider
...Bishop, that when they dined together at Mr. Billy's, where I also was, they were mutually agreeable. to please. These societies were denominated Bluestocking Clubs, the origin of which title being little known, it may be worth while to relate it. One of the most eminent members of those... | |
 | James Boswell - 1821 - 412 sider
...live double." About this time it was much the fashion for several ladies to have evening assemblies, where the fair sex might participate in conversation with literary and ingenious men, animated by a desire to please. These societies were denominated Blue-stocking Clubs, the 1 When I mentioned... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1824 - 910 sider
...1781), it was much the fashion," says Mr. Boswell, " for several ladies to have evening assemblies, where the fair sex might participate in conversation with literary and ingenious men, animated by a desire to please. These societies were denominated blue-stocking clubs, the origin of which title... | |
 | James Boswell - 1826 - 444 sider
...live double." About this time it was much the fashion for several ladies to have evening assemblies, where the fair sex might participate in conversation with literary and ingenious men, animated by a desire to please. These societies were denominated ' blue-stocking clubs,' the origin of which... | |
 | James Boswell - 1827 - 622 sider
...live double." About this time it was much the fashion for several ladies to haveevening assemblies, plenty of good things, ever so much grandeur, ever so much elegance, ever so much desire that by a desire to please. These societies were denominated Blue-stocking Clubs, the origin of which title... | |
 | Francis Lieber, Edward Wigglesworth, Thomas Gamaliel Bradford - 1830 - 628 sider
...Johnson: "About this time (1780), it was much the fashion for several ladies to have evening assemblies, where the fair sex might participate in conversation...as follows: — One of the most eminent members of tliese societies was Mr. Stillingfleer, who always wore blue stockings. Such was the excellence of... | |
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About this time it was much the fashion for several ladies to have evening assemblies, where the fair sex might participate in conversation with literary and ingenious men, animated by a desire to please. 
