... forced to begin a minuet pace, with an air and a grace, swimming about, now in and now out, with a deal of state, in a figure of eight, without pipe, or string, or any such thing ; and now I have writ, in a rhyming fit, what will make you dance, and,... The United States Magazine and Democratic Review - Page 1521847Full view - About this book
| John Cann Bailey - Authors, English - 1899 - 324 pages
...before?" This sort of thing is kept up all through the letter and then he ends up : "I have heard before, of a room with a floor, laid upon springs, and such...much art, in every part, that when you went in, you was forced to begin a minuet pace, with an air and a grace, swimming about, now in and now out, with... | |
| Bibliography - 1900 - 532 pages
...and by hook or by crook, write another book, if I live and am here another year. I have heard before of a room with a floor laid upon springs and such...were forced to begin a minuet pace, with an air and grace, swimming about, now in and now out, with a deal of state, in a figure of eight, without pipe... | |
| William Cowper - 1904 - 546 pages
...and by hook or crook write another book, if I live and am here, another year. I have heard before, of a room with a floor, laid upon springs, and such...much art, in every part, that when you went in, you was forced to begin a minuet pace, with an air and a grace, swimming about, now in, now out, with a... | |
| William Cowper, Thomas Wright - Authors, English - 1904 - 542 pages
...and by hook or crook write another book, if I live and am here, another year. I have heard before, of a room with a floor, laid upon springs, and such like things, with so much artyin every part, that when you went in, you was forced to begin a minuet pace, with an air and a... | |
| William Cowper, Thomas Wright - Authors, English - 1904 - 556 pages
...upon springs, and such like things, with so much art, in every part, that when you went in, you was forced to begin a minuet pace, with an air and a grace, swimming about, now in, now out, with a deal of state, in a figure of eight, without pipe or string, or any such thing;... | |
| John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - American periodicals - 1874 - 844 pages
...am here another year. " I have heard before, of a room with a floor, laid upon springs, or suchlike things, with so much art in every part, that when...pace with an air and a grace, swimming about, now in now out, with a deal of state, in a figure of eight, without pipe or string, or any such thing ;... | |
| Edward Verrall Lucas - English letters - 1907 - 454 pages
...and by hook or crook, write another book, if I live and am here, another year. I have heard before, of a room with a floor laid upon springs and such...much art, in every part, that when you went in, you was forced to begin a minuet pace, with an air and a grace, swimming about, now in and now out, with... | |
| Edward Verrall Lucas - English letters - 1907 - 456 pages
...upon springs and such like things, with so much art, in every part, that when you went in, you was forced to begin a minuet pace, with an air and a grace, swimming about, now in and now out, with a deal of state, in a figure of eight, without pipe or string, or any such thing;... | |
| William James Dawson, Coningsby Dawson - Letter-writing - 1908 - 312 pages
...and by hook or crook, write another book, if I live and am here, another year. I have heard before, of a room with a floor laid upon springs and such...much art, in every part, that when you went in, you was forced to begin a minuet pace, with an air and a grace, swimming about, now in and now out, with... | |
| William James Dawson, Coningsby Dawson - Letter-writing - 1908 - 312 pages
...upon springs and such like things, with so much art, in every part, that when you went in, you was forced to begin a minuet pace, with an air and a grace, swimming about, now in and now out, with a deal of state, in a figure of eight, without pipe or string, or any such thing... | |
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