 ... loves and honours: his eye always on the ladies; if they have very large hoops, he looks down and supercilious, and as if he would be thought wise, but perhaps the sillier for that: as he approaches a lady, his eye is never fixed first upon her face,...  Shadows of the Old Booksellers - Page 123by Charles Knight - 1865 - 320 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Samuel Richardson - 1868 - 370 pages
...a lady, his eye is never fixed first upon her face, but upon her feet, and thence he raises it up, pretty quickly for a dull eye ; and one would think...back, if he greatly likes or dislikes, as if he would see if the lady appear to be all of a piece, in the one light or in the other. Are these marks distinct... | |
 | 1869 - 796 pages
...a lady, his eye is never fixed first upon her face, but upon her feet, and thence he raisee it up, pretty quickly for a dull eye ; and one would think...back, if he greatly likes or dislikes, as if he would see if the lady appear to be all of a piece in the one light or in the other. Are these marks distinct... | |
 | 1869 - 824 pages
...a lady, his eye is never fixed first upon her face, but upon her feet, and thence he raises it up, pretty quickly for a dull eye; and one would think...beheld) her face, he sets her down in his mind as to or .40, and then passes on to the next object he meets — only then looking back, if he greatly... | |
 | 1869 - 1062 pages
...a lady, his sye is never fixed first upon her face, but upon her feet, and t'ience he raises it up, pretty quickly for a dull eye; and one would think...worthy of observation) that from her air and (the last boheld) her face, he sets her down in his mind us so or so, and then passes on to the next object he... | |
 | Samuel Richardson - 1883 - 502 pages
...approaches a lady his eye is never fixed first upon her face, but upon her feet, and thence he raises it up pretty quickly for a dull eye ; and one would think...beheld) her face, he sets her down in his mind as so and so, and then passes on to the next object he meets ; only then looking back, if he greatly likes... | |
 | Samuel Richardson, Leslie Stephen - 1883 - 514 pages
...approaches a lady his eye is never fixed first upon her face, but upon her feet, and thence he raises it up pretty quickly for a dull eye ; and one would think...beheld) her face, he sets her down in his mind as so and so, and then passes on to the next object he meets ; only then looking back, if he greatly likes... | |
 | Samuel Richardson - 1883 - 520 pages
...observation) that from her air and (the last beheld) her face, he sets her down in his mind as so and so, and then passes on to the next object he meets...back, if he greatly likes or dislikes, as if he would see if the lady appear to be all of a piece, in the one light or the other.' The portraits tally with... | |
 | Walter Raleigh - 1894 - 346 pages
...approaches a lady his eye is never fixed first upon her face, but upon her feet, and thence he raises it up, pretty quickly for a dull eye ; and one would think...so, and then passes on to the next object he meets." It is necessary, in passing from the man to his novels, to say something first about the method of... | |
 | Austin Dobson - 1902 - 232 pages
...a lady, his eye is never fixed first upon her face, but upon her feet, and thence he raises it up, pretty quickly for a dull eye ; and one would think...back, if he greatly likes or dislikes, as if he would see if the lady appear to be all of a piece, in the one light or in the other." In Mrs. Belfour's reply... | |
 | JOHN MASEFIELD - 1907 - 550 pages
...approaches a lady his eye is never fixed first upon her face, but upon her feet, and thence he raises it up, pretty quickly for a dull eye ; and one would think...so, and then passes on to the next object he meets. DAVID HUME QUEEN ELIZABETH 'T'HERE are few great personages in history who have •*• been more exposed... | |
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