| Herbert Greenhough Smith - 1912 - 1002 sider
...father of youth and beauty. MME. SARAH BERNHARDT. Someone once wrote a great thought to the effect that "If she be not fair to me, what care I how fair she be?" When I answer your query I am thinking of those MME. SARAH BERNHARDT. Prom a /'M- v"r'i bg Dover... | |
| Matilda Betham-Edwards - 1892 - 372 sider
...hopeless. Like the haughty lover in the song, they wouldhave turned from the lady with the farewell : "If she be not fair to me, What care I how fair she be?" Not of this complexion the Vicar of Hopedale. He was a man of the world, widely experienced in... | |
| Frederick Greenwood - 1893 - 356 sider
...his eyes, but it moves him no more to love than would the vast circumference of Abyssinian grace. " If she be not fair to me, what care I how fair she be ? " That is the humour of him, and going from the presence of the divinity in a whistling mood,... | |
| Anthony Trollope - 1893 - 364 sider
...and allow his heart to sink into his very feet because a girl would not smile when he wooed her ? " If she be not fair to me, What care I how fair she be? " He had repeated the lines to himself a score of times, and had been ashamed of himself because... | |
| Anthony Trollope - 1893 - 372 sider
...and allow his heart to sink into his very feet because a girl would not smile when he wooed her ? " If she be not fair to me, What care I how fair she be? " He had repeated the lines to himself a score of times, and had been ashamed of himself because... | |
| Matthew Mark Trumbull - 1895 - 316 sider
...mind is strong enough to understand them, and where their spirit is able to purify and lift up mine. If she be not fair to me, What care I how fair she be. Gerald Massey is a genius, twisted, gnarled, and stunted by hunger and cold, and that premature... | |
| Sarah Tytler - 1896 - 310 sider
...for retiring here, but I dare say not less original on that account ; still, as the old song says : '"If she be not fair to me, What care I how fair she be ! Since he and his will have none of us, we can afford to let them alone without bearing malice.... | |
| Thomas De Quincey, David Masson - 1897 - 472 sider
...hides his talent under a bushel, in what respect is he different from the man who has no such talent ? "If she be not fair to me, What care I how fair she be ? " The reader, therefore, may take it, upon the a priori logic of this dilemma, or upon the evidence... | |
| 1898 - 548 sider
...Never mind. Look at me ; been in the same boat myself, and here I am, as jolly as a sand-boy ! " ' If she be not fair to me, What care I how fair she be ?' " Eh ? — that's the philosophy of it, Bishop ! " And with that the Major took his departure,... | |
| Anthony Trollope - 1900 - 446 sider
...likely that he should be called upon to pretend to love her. And he sang a little song as he went, " If she be not fair to me, what care I how fair she be." That was intended to apply to Lily, and was used as an excuse for his fickleness in going to Miss... | |
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