 | Laurence Sterne - 1802 - 284 pages
...rather too great a disparity this ! but what I want in youth, I will make up in wit and good humour. Nor Swift so loved his Stella, Scarron his Maintenon, or "Waller his Sacharissa, as I will a48 TORICK'S LETTERS love and sing thee, my wife elect ! — All those names, eminent as they were,... | |
 | Laurence Sterne - 1814 - 430 pages
...too great a disparity this ! — but what I want in youth, I will make up in wit and good-humour. — Not Swift so loved his Stella, Scarron his Maintenon,...Sacharissa, as I will love and sing thee, my wife elect ! All those names, eminent as they were, shall give place to thine, Eliza. Tell me, in answer to this,... | |
 | Laurence Sterne - 1823 - 168 pages
...too great a disparity this!—but what I want in youth, I will make up in wit and goodhumour.—Not Swift so loved his Stella, Scarron his Maintenon,...Sacharissa, as I will love and sing thee, my wife elect ! All those names, eminent as they were, shall give place to thine, Eliza. Tell me, in answer to this,... | |
 | Laurence Sterne - 1831 - 438 pages
...too great a disparity this! — but what I want in youth, I will make up in wit and good-humor. — Not Swift so loved his Stella, Scarron his Maintenon,...Sacharissa, as I will love and sing thee, my wife elect ! All those names, eminent as they were, shall give place to thine, Eliza. Tell me, in answer to this,... | |
 | Laurence Sterne - 1834 - 440 pages
...too great a disparity this! — but what I want in youth, I will make up in wit and good-humor. — Not Swift so loved his Stella, Scarron his Maintenon,...Sacharissa, as I will love and sing thee, my wife elect ! All those names, eminent as they were, shall give place to thine, Eliza. Tell me, in answer to this,... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1853 - 332 pages
...constitution, and you but twenty-five ; but what I want in youth, I will make up in wit and good-humour. Not Swift so loved his Stella, Scarron his Maintenon, or Waller his Saccharissa. Tell me, in answer to this, that you approve and honour the proposal." Approve and honour... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1853 - 332 pages
...constitution, and you but twenty-five; but what I want in youth, I will make up in wit and good-humour. Not Swift so loved his Stella, Scarron his Maintenon, or Waller his Saccharissa. Tell me, in answer to this, that you approve and honour the proposal." Approve and honour... | |
 | 1854 - 604 pages
...rather too great a disparity this, — but what I want in youth, I will make up in wit and good-humor. Not Swift so loved his Stella, Scarron his Maintenon,...Waller his Sacharissa, as I will love and sing thee, ray wife elect. Tell me in answer to this that you approve and honor the proposal, and that you would... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1854 - 306 pages
...constitution, and you but twenty-five ; but what I want in youth, I will make up in wit and good-humour. Not Swift so loved his Stella, Scarron his Maintenon, or Waller his Saccharissa. Tell me, in answer to this, that you approve and honour the proposal." Approve and honour... | |
 | Laurence Sterne - 1855 - 448 pages
...sing thee, my wife elect ! All those names, eminent as they were, shall give place to thine, Eliza. Tell me, in answer to this, that you approve and honor the proposal, and that you would (like the Spectar tor's mistress) have more joy in putting on an old man's slipper, than associating with the... | |
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France already — and I know not the woman I should like so well for her substitute as yourself. 'Tis true, I am ninety-five in constitution, and you but twenty-five; rather too great a disparity this! 
