 | Sir Henry Craik - Authors, Irish - 1894 - 404 pages
...fifteen ; but then grew into perfect health, and was looked upon as one of the most beautiful, gracsful, and agreeable young women in London, only a little...She lived generally in the country, with a family where she contracted an intimate friendship with another lady of more advanced years. I was then, to... | |
 | Alfred Ainger - 1895 - 654 pages
...health, and 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." Her conduct and character were equally remarkable, if we may trust the tutor who taught her to write,... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - English literature - 1896 - 510 pages
...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... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1897 - 478 pages
...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 - 1897 - 550 pages
...death, so impressive in its mixture of matter-of-fact analysis and tender memory, he tells us that " her hair was blacker than a raven, and every feature of her face in perfection." She was " one of the most beautiful, graceful and 1 "Miss" was a familiar abbreviation applied only to... | |
 | Edward John Hardy - Biography - 1897 - 376 pages
...when Swift first came to Temple. She grew to be a beautiful, graceful, and agreeable young woman. " Her hair was blacker than a raven, and every feature of her face in ' perfection.' " Nor was her character less admirable, if we may trust the tutor who taught her to write, guided her... | |
 | Robert McWilliam - English literature - 1900 - 644 pages
...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. After Temple's death, and when Swift was settled in Ireland, she also with a friend, a Mrs. Dingley,... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - English literature - 1900 - 410 pages
...health, and was looked upon as one of the most beautiful, graceful, and agreeable young women in 25 London — only a little too fat. Her hair was blacker...raven, and every feature of her face in perfection. "... Properly speaking " — he goes on, with a calmness which, under the circumstances, is terrible... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1900 - 298 pages
...death, so impressive in its mixture of matter-of-fact analysis and tender memory, he tells us that " her hair was blacker than a raven, and every feature of her face in perfection." She was " one of the most beautiful, graceful and 1 "Miss" was a familiar abbreviation applied only to... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - Authors, Irish - 1901 - 682 pages
...into a girl of fifteen, in perfect health. She came, he says, to be " looked upon as one of the most beautiful, graceful, and agreeable young women in...raven, and every feature of her face in perfection." On his death in January 1699, Temple left a will,1 dated l09-i, directing the payment of j£"20 each,... | |
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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,... 
