 | Robert Andrews - 1993 - 1214 страници
...Wishes for the Clolhf ofHeJven. on HUMANKIND; Shaw on VISIONAKK5. IDEALISM; Dylan on NATURE; DRESS 1 olumbia University Press JOSEPH ADDISON (1672-1719). English essayist. Spectator (Iondon, July 1711). 2 The best-dressed woman... | |
 | Robert Andrews - 1997 - 666 страници
...Agrícola, set. 42. An intellectual hatred is the worst, So let her think opinions are accursed. Hats 1 There is not so variable a thing in nature as a lady's head-dress. JOSEPH ADDISON, (1672-1719) British essayist. Spectator (London, June 22, 1 71 1 ), no. 98, The Spectator,... | |
 | Julia Cherry Spruill - 1998 - 460 страници
...to the head and was surmounted by an ornamental cap. The Spectator commented thus upon the change: "There is not so variable a thing in nature as a lady's...part of our species were much taller than the men ... at present the whole sex is in a manner dwarfed and shrunk into a race of beauties that seems almost... | |
 | Shawn L. Maurer - 1998 - 330 страници
...Culture, 24). 50. Cf. also No. 98, in which Mr. Spectator had satirized women's extravagant headgear: "There is not so variable a thing in Nature as a Lady's Head-dress: W1thin my own Memory I have known it rise and fall above thirty Degrees. About ten Years ago it shot... | |
 | Daniel R. Woolf - 2003 - 454 страници
...inconsistent and desirous of novelties', changed their fashions every year." loseph Addison remarked that 'There is not so variable a thing in nature as a lady's...have known it rise and fall above thirty degrees.'''" These are literary exaggerations. But even if one applies appropriate caution, there is no doubt that... | |
 | Katherine Morris Lester, Bess Viola Oerke, Helen Westermann - 2004 - 612 страници
...Late 18th Century After a drawing from Racinet. of hairdressing, Addison, in the Spectator, remarks, "There is not so variable a thing in nature as a lady's headdress. Within my memory I have known it to rise and fall above thirty degrees." And now hats had to be invented to cover... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1961 - 278 страници
...HEAD-DRESSES Tanta est quaerendl cura decoris. JUV. Sat. vl. 500 So studiously their persons they adorn. THERE is not so variable a thing in nature as a lady's head-dress. Within my own memory, 1 have known it rise and fall above thirty degrees. About ten years ago it shot up to a very great... | |
 | Nicholas Murray Butler, Frank Pierrepont Graves, William McAndrew - 1919 - 472 страници
...sweep out. Fashion plays constant pranks with a lady's hair. Addison says in the Spectator of 1718: "There is not so• variable a thing in nature as a Lady's head-dress; within my memory I have known it to rise and fall above thirty degrees." In the reign of Henry VI ladies wore... | |
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THERE is not so variable a thing in nature as a lady's head-dress: within my own memory I have known it rise and fall above thirty degrees. About ten 'years ago it shot up to a very great height, insomuch that the female part of our species were much... 
