 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 Registerredigert av - 1765Utdragsvisning - Om denne boken
 | Charles Wells Moulton - 1910 - 616 sider
...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 - 1913 - 522 sider
...of fifteen, but then grew into perfect health," says Swift,5 "and was looked upon as one of the most beautiful, graceful, and agreeable young women in London, only a little too fat." The implication here seems to be that she had access to good society, to circles into which she could... | |
 | Royal Society of Literature (Great Britain) - 1914 - 532 sider
..." She was looked upon as one of the most beautiful, graceful, and agreeable young women in London. Her hair was blacker than a raven, and every feature of her face in perfection." The well-known portrait of Stella, with the graceful neck, perfectly oval face, and large dark eyes,... | |
 | Amy Cruse - 1919 - 666 sider
...Johnson was now " one of the most beautiful, graceful, and agreeable young women in London. Her hah- was blacker than a raven, and every feature of her face in perfection." The affectionate intimacy between the two had grown closer with the years. Swift had carefully trained... | |
 | John Drinkwater - 1923 - 528 sider
...delicate child of eight into "one of the most beautiful, graceful, and agreeable young women in London — her hair was blacker than a raven, and every feature of her face in perfection." At Temple's death he was already famous as a writer, having written A Tale of a Tub and The Battle... | |
 | Claude Julien Rawson - 2002 - 440 sider
...('gros et cagneux'l, somewhat outdoing Swift's affectionate deflation of Stella as 'one of the most beautiful, graceful, and agreeable young women in London, only a little too fat'. 128 The Bum Shop Lombroso and other medical writers show a penchant for relating enlarged erogenous... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 2007 - 298 sider
...about 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... | |
 | 1920 - 922 sider
...never swerved in any one action or moment of her life. She . . . was looked upon as one of the most beautiful, graceful and agreeable young women in London,...blacker than a raven, and every feature of her face perfection. . . Never was any of her sex born with better gifts of the mind, or who more improved them... | |
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