... trees, but I should reflect upon her and her severity. She has certainly the finest hand of any woman in the world. You are to know, this was the place wherein I used to muse upon her : and by that custom I can never come into it, but the same tender... The Spectator - Page 104edited by - 1853Full view - About this book
| 1786 - 694 pages
...revive in my mind, as if I bad aflually walked with thît beau. tiful creature under thefe {hades. I have been fool enough to carve her name on the bark of feveral of thefe trees; fo xmhappy is the condition of men in love, to attempt the removing of their... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1802 - 366 pages
...see a sprig of any bough of this whole walk of trees, but I should reflect upon her and her severity. She has certainly the finest hand of any woman in the world. You are to know, this was the place wherein I used to muse upon her: and by that custom I can never... | |
| British essayists - 1802 - 342 pages
...after I first saw her, and she helped me to some tansy in the eye of all the gentlemen in the country. She has certainly the finest hand of any woman in the world. I can assure you, sir, were you to behold her, you would be in the same condition ; for as her speech... | |
| 1803 - 472 pages
...custom I can never come into it, but the same tender sentiments revive in my mind, as if I had actually walked with that beautiful creature under these shades....certainly the finest hand of any woman in the world.' ' See N° 2. Here followed a profound silence ; and I was not displeased to observe my friend falling... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1808 - 346 pages
...custom I can never come into it, but the same tender sentiments revive in my mind, as if I had actually walked with that beautiful creature under these shades....deeper. She has certainly the finest hand of any woman hi the world.' Here followed a profound silence ; and I was not displeased to observe my friend falling... | |
| British essayists - 1819 - 340 pages
...see a sprig of any bough of this whole walk of trees, but I should reflect upon her and her severity. She has certainly the finest hand of any woman in the world. You are to know, this was the place wherein I used to muse upon her: and by that custom I can never... | |
| Spectator (London, England : 1711) - 1822 - 788 pages
...sentiments revive in my mind, as if I had actually walked with that beautiful creature under these shades. 1 \<£e, to attempt i! removing of their * See No. 2. passion by themethods which serve only to imprint... | |
| 1827 - 480 pages
...custom I can never come into it but the same tender sentiments revive in my mind, as if I had actually walked with that beautiful creature under these shades. I have been fool enough to carve her name upon the bark of several of those trees ; so unhappy Is the condition of men in love — to attempt... | |
| James Ferguson - English essays - 1823 - 438 pages
...see a sprig of any bough of this whole walk of trees, but I should reflect upon her and her severity. She has certainly the finest hand of any woman in the world. You are to know, this was the place wherein I used to muse upon her : and by that custom I can never... | |
| Spectator (London, England : 1711) - 1824 - 278 pages
...see a sprig of any bough of this whole walk of trees, but I should reflect upon her and her severity. She has certainly the finest hand of any woman in the world. You are to know this was the place- wherein I used to muse upon her; and by that custom I can never... | |
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