But in every thing else, I suppose, they were our counterparts exactly ; and time, that has sewed up the slashed sleeve, and reduced the large trunk hose to a neat pair of silk stockings, has left human nature just where it found it. The inside of the... The Critical Review, Or, Annals of Literature - Page 57edited by - 1805Full view - About this book
| 1835 - 466 pages
...the large trunk hose to a neat pair of silk stockings, has left human nature just where it found it. The inside of the man at least has undergone no change....wear, perhaps, a handsomer disguise than they did in the days of yore, for philosophy and literature will have their effect upon the exterior ; but in every... | |
| William Cowper, William Hayley - 1835 - 376 pages
...the large trunk hose to a neat pair of silk stockings, has left human nature just where it found it. The inside of the man at least has undergone no change....wear perhaps a handsomer disguise than they did in the days of yore, for philosophy and literature will have their effect upon the exterior ; but in every... | |
| William Cowper - 1836 - 400 pages
...the large trunk hose to a neat pair of silk stockings, has left human nature just where it found it. The inside of the man at least has undergone no change....exterior ; but in every other respect a modern is only an ancient in a different dress. WC TO THE REV. JOHN NEWTON. August 21, 1780. THE following occurrence... | |
| William Cowper - 1836 - 390 pages
...the large trunk hose to a neat pair of silk stockings, has left human nature just where it found it. The inside of the man at least has undergone no change....exterior ; but in every other respect a modern is only an ancient in a different dress. WC TO THE REV. JOHN NEWTON. August 21, 1780. THE following occurrence... | |
| 1836 - 342 pages
...of silk stockings, has left human nature just where it found it The inside of the man at least lias undergone no change. His passions, appetites, and...; but, in every other respect, a modern is only an ancient in a different dress. Yours, WM. COWFEK. Win. Cowper, Esq. to the Rev. Wm. Unwin. J«« 13,... | |
| William Cowper - 1836 - 388 pages
...the large trunk hose to a neat pair of silk stockings, has left human nature just where it found it. The inside of the man at least has undergone no change....wear perhaps a handsomer disguise than they did in the days of yore, for philosophy and literature will have their effect upon the exterior ; but in every... | |
| William Cowper - 1836 - 384 pages
...the large trunk hose to a neat pair of silk stockings, has left human nature just where it found it. The inside of the man at least has undergone no change. His passions, appetites, and aims are just VOL. i. o what they ever were. They wear perhaps a handsomer disguise than they did in the days of... | |
| Christian correspondent - 1837 - 350 pages
...the large trunk-hose to a neat pair of silk stockings, has left human nature just where it found it. The inside of the man at least has undergone no change....exterior ; but in every other respect a modern is only an ancient in a different dress. WC LETTER CCLXVI. WILLIAM COWPER, Esa. to Miss COWPER. — Lady Cowper's... | |
| Author of The young man's own book - 1841 - 338 pages
...the large trunk hose to a neat pair of silk stockings, has left human nature just where it ibuad it. The inside of the man at least has undergone no change. His passion?, appetites, and aims, are just what they ever were. They wear perhaps a handsomer disguise... | |
| Lord Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey - 1846 - 788 pages
...the large trunk- hose to a neat pair of silk stockings, has left human nature just where it found it. The inside of the man, at least, has undergone no...exterior ; but in every other respect a modern is only an ancient in a different dress." — p. 48. " I am much obliged to you for the voyages, which I received,... | |
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