 ... 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 - 1804 - 400 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...so or so, and then passes on to the next object he o 2 meets; meets; only then looking back, if he greatly likes or dislikes, as if he would see if the... | |
 | Samuel Richardson - 1824 - 808 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 *o or no, and then passes on to the next object he meets ; only then looking back, if he greatly likes... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1825 - 554 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...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... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1834 - 492 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... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1834 - 484 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 he all of a piece, in the one light or in the other. Are these marks distinct... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1834 - 506 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 so or «j, and then passes on to the next object he meets j imly then looking back, if he greatly likes or... | |
 | Robert Walsh, Eliakim Littell, John Jay Smith - 1825 - 622 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...last beheld) her face, he sets her down in his mind aswor so, and then passes on to the next object he meets ; only then looking back, if he greatly likes... | |
 | 1869 - 862 pages
...a lady, his eye is never fixed first upon her face, but upon her feet, and thenoe 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... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1847 - 726 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 no or so, and then passes on to the n*?xt object he meels : only then looking back, if ho greatly likes... | |
 | Samuel Richardson - 1868 - 372 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... | |
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