 | Howard Williams, Jonathan Swift, Alexander Pope - 1886 - 634 pagine
...papists), and gave me a dinner, with something I like better—an opportunity of conversing with Mrs. H. We all agreed that the life of a Maid of Honour was,...envied it, had a specimen of it. To eat Westphalia ham iu a morning, ride over hedges and ditches on borrowed hacks, come home in the heat of the day with... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1886 - 876 pagine
...agreed that the life of a maid of honor was of all things the most miserable, and wished that all women who envied it had a specimen of it. To eat Westphalia ham of a morning, ride over hedges and ditches on borrowed hacks, come home in the heat of the day with... | |
 | Howard Williams, Jonathan Swift, Alexander Pope - 1886 - 632 pagine
...and diversion : some of the " diversions," as he reports them, in a letter to Miss Teresa Blount — "to eat Westphalia ham in a morning, ride over hedges and ditches (hunting in Windsor Forest), come home in the heat of the day, with a fever and a red mark on the forehead... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1886 - 914 pagine
...agreed that the life of a maid of honor was of all things the most miserable, and wished that all women who envied it had a specimen of it. To eat Westphalia ham of a morning, ride over hedges and ditches on borrowed hacks, come home in the heat of the day with... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1889 - 554 pagine
...agreed that the life of a maid of honor was of all things the most miserable, and wished that all women who envied it had a specimen of it. To eat Westphalia ham of a morning, ride over hedges and ditches on borrowed hacks, come home in the heat of the day with... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1891 - 400 pagine
...agreed that the life of a maid of honor was of all things the most miserable, and wished that all women who envied it had a specimen of it. To eat Westphalia ham of a morning, ride over hedges and ditches on borrowed hacks, come home in the heat of the day with... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1896 - 420 pagine
...agreed that the life of a maid of honor was of all things the most miserable, and wished that all women who envied it had a specimen of it. To eat Westphalia ham of a morning, ride over hedges and ditches on borrowed hacks, come home in the heat of the day with... | |
 | William Holden Hutton - 1897 - 358 pagine
...papists, and gave me a dinner, with something I liked better, an opportunity of conVersing with Mrs. H.8 We all agreed that the life of a Maid of Honour was...it had a specimen of it. To eat Westphalia ham in morning, ride over hedges and ditches on borrowed hacks, come home in the heat of the day with a fever,... | |
 | 1843 - 692 pagine
...letters, descrihing a dinner given him by some of the ladies at the court of George the Second, says — " We all agreed that the life of a maid of honour was...that every woman who envied it had a specimen of it." And from this life it was that Mary Gowry sought to find some relief in cultivating her talents for... | |
 | Jerusha D. Richardson ("Mrs. Aubrey Richardson.") - 1899 - 522 pagine
...and gave me a dinner, with something I liked better, an opportunity of conversing with Mrs. H(oward). We all agreed that the life of a Maid of Honour was...every woman who envied it had a specimen of it. To eat AYestphalia ham in a morning, ride over hedges and ditches on borrowed hacks, come home in the heat... | |
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Westphalia ham of a morning, ride over hedges and ditches on borrowed hacks, come home in the heat of the day with a fever, and (what... 
