 | James Boswell - 1807 - 532 страници
...mentioned it to him with regret, he was pleased to say, " Then, Sir, let us live double." About this time it was much the fashion for several ladies to have...and ingenious men, animated by a desire to please. These societies weredenominated Blue-stocking Clubs, the origin of which title being little known,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1807 - 562 страници
...mentioned it to him with regret, he was pleased to say, " Then, Sir, let us live double." About this time it was much the fashion for several ladies to have...and ingenious men, animated by a desire to please. These societies were denominated Blue-stocking Clubs, the origin of which title being little known,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1820 - 550 страници
...mentioned it to him with regret, he was pleased tossy, 'l'ln-и, Sir, let us live double. About this time it was much the fashion for several ladies to have...and ingenious men, animated by a desire to please. These societies were denominated Blue-Stocking Ciulfi, the origin of which title being little known,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1820 - 476 страници
...mentioned it to him with regret, he was pleased to say, " Then, Sir, let us live double." About this time it was much the fashion for several ladies to have...with literary and ingenious men, animated by a desire * When I mentioned this to the Bishop of Killaloe, " With the goat," said his Lordship. Such, however,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1821 - 412 страници
...mentioned it to him with regret, he was pleased to say, " Then, sir, let us live double." About this time it was much the fashion for several ladies to have...and ingenious men, animated by a desire to please. These societies were denominated Blue-stocking Clubs, the 1 When I mentioned this to the Bishop Of... | |
 | 1858 - 1194 страници
...Boswell, in his " Life of Johnson," date 1781, records of die origin of Bluestocking Clubs : — " One of the most eminent members of these societies, when they first commenced, was Mr. Stillingfleet, (grandson of the Bishop,) whose dress was remarkably grave ; and in particular it was... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1824 - 910 страници
...pleasing and respectable. "About this time (the year 1781), it was much the fashion," says Mr. Boswell, " for several ladies to have evening assemblies, where...and ingenious men, animated by a desire to please. These societies were denominated blue-stocking clubs, the origin of which title being little known,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1826 - 444 страници
...mentioned it to him with regret, he was pleased to say, " Then, sir, let us live double." About this time it was much the fashion for several ladies to have...and ingenious men, animated by a desire to please. These societies were denominated ' blue-stocking clubs,' the origin of which title being little known,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1827 - 622 страници
...Sir, let us live double." About this time it was much the fashion for several ladies to haveevening ver so great plenty of good things, ever so much grandeur,...elegance, ever so much desire that every body should be e These societies were denominated Blue-stocking Clubs, the origin of which title being little known,... | |
 | Francis Lieber, Edward Wigglesworth, Thomas Gamaliel Bradford - 1830 - 628 страници
...this name, in England, is thus given l>y Boswell, in his Life of Johnson: "About this time (1780), it was much the fashion for several ladies to have...conversation with literary and ingenious men, animated with a desire to please. These societies were denominated blue-stocking clubs, the origin of which... | |
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About this time it was much the fashion for several ladies to have evening assemblies, where the fair sex might participate in conversation with literary and ingenious men, animated by a desire to please. 
