 | 1819 - عدد الصفحات: 780
...learn'd may see, " A set of phrases learnt by rote, A passion for a searlet coat ; • . When at a play to laugh or cry, Yet cannot tell the reason why...a coxcomb sit, And take his nonsense all for wit. — For conversation well endued, She calls it witty to be rude, And placing raillery in railing, Will... | |
 | 1819 - عدد الصفحات: 708
...for a scarlet coat ; , _ . i When at a play to laugh or cry, !f _ ^ Yet cannot tell the reason why i Never to hold her tongue a minute, While all she prates...has nothing in it. Whole hours can with a coxcomb (it, And take his nonsense nil for wit — Fur conversation well endued, She calls it witty to be rude,... | |
 | 1819 - عدد الصفحات: 800
...Butler's " Hudibras.'' '• A set of phrases learnt fay rote, A passion for a scarlet coat ; When at a play to laugh or cry, Yet cannot tell the reason why : Never to bold her tongue a minute, While all she prates has nothing in it. Whole hours can with a coxcomb sit.... | |
 | 1820 - عدد الصفحات: 496
...gentilesses. Butler's Hudibras. A set of phrases leamt by rote, A passion for a scarlet coat ; Wht-n at a play to laugh or cry, Yet cannot tell the reason why...coxcomb sit, And take his nonsense all for wit.— For conversation well endued, She calls it witty to be rude, * We- regret that our Correspondent has... | |
 | Paul Ponder (pseud.) - 1825 - عدد الصفحات: 492
...in general; about his time. A set of phrases learnt by rote, A passion for a scarlet coat. When at a play to laugh or cry, Yet cannot tell the reason why....nonsense all for wit. Her learning mounts to read a song, Cut halt the words pronouncing wrong, &r. I)r. Swift's Furnitureofa Woman's Mind. If YiMen 1727. It... | |
 | Paul Ponder (pseud.) - 1825 - عدد الصفحات: 524
...A set of phrases learnt by rote, A passion for a scarlet coat. When at a play to laugh or cry, Tet cannot tell the reason why. Never to hold her tongue...nothing in it. Whole hours can with a coxcomb sit, And lake his nonsense all for wit. Her learning mounts to read a song, But hall the words pronouncing wrong,... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1825 - عدد الصفحات: 600
...phrases learnt by rote; A passion for a searlet eoat ; When at a play, to laugh, or ery. Vet eannot Tiresias and Phineus, prophets old : ean with a eoxeomb sit, And take his nonsense all for wit ; Her learning mounts to read a song, But... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1833 - عدد الصفحات: 386
...OF A WOMAN'S MIND. 1727. A SET of phrases learn'd by rote ; A passion for a scarlet coat ; When at a play, to laugh or cry, Yet cannot tell the reason...read a song, But half the words pronouncing wrong ; Has every repartee in store She spoke ten thousand times before ; Can ready compliments supply On... | |
 | Jean Roemer - 1857 - عدد الصفحات: 332
...XCIX— A LADY OF OLD. A SET of phrases learned by rote ; A passion for a scarlet coat ; When at a play, to laugh, or cry, Yet cannot tell the reason...for wit ; Her learning mounts to read a song, But all the words pronouncing wrong ; Hath every repartee in store She spoke ten thousand times before... | |
 | John Cordy Jeaffreson - 1858 - عدد الصفحات: 426
...of a woman's mind — " A set of phrazes learnt by rote ; A passion for a scarlet coat ; When at a play, to laugh or cry, Yet cannot tell the reason...read a song, But half the words pronouncing wrong," &c. The poetry, of which the foregoing quotations are extracts, may be regarded as embodying the creed... | |
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When at a play to laugh, or cry, Yet cannot tell the reason why; Never to hold her tongue a minute, While all she prates has nothing in it ; Whole hours can with a coxcomb sit, And take his nonsense all for wit ; Her learning mounts to read a song, But... 
