 | Kate Sanborn - 1869 - 306 páginas
...amusing. I give you the first-mentioned, to tempt you to look up the others : " MR. SPECTATOR : "Womerf are armed with fans as men with swords, and sometimes do more execution with them. To the end, therefore, that ladies may be entire mistresses of the weapon which they bear, I have erected... | |
 | Fanny Aikin- Kortright - 1870 - 568 páginas
...the street, at parties, and in church, this truly feminine weapon was handled with effect. " Women are armed with fans, as men with swords, and sometimes do more execution with them : " so writes Addison, and he proves his statement by a seriocomic list of gallants who had been heartsmitten... | |
 | James Edward Austen-Leigh - 1871 - 396 páginas
...dress sword, and the lady was armed with a fan of nearly equal dimensions. Addison observes that 'women are armed with fans, as men with swords, and sometimes do more execution with them.' The graceful carriage of each weapon was considered a test of high breeding. The clownish man was in... | |
 | Henry Noble Day - 1877 - 564 páginas
...that I shall give it my Reader at length without either Preface or Postscript. Mr. SPECTATOR, " WOMEN are armed with Fans as men with Swords, and sometimes do more execution with them. To the end therefore that Ladies may be entire Mistresses of the weapon which they bear, I have erected... | |
 | George Melville Baker - 1879 - 734 páginas
...lost too? " " Kever ! " and the bloody tatters From his breast the soldier drew. THE FAN DRILL. WOMEN are armed with fans, as men with swords, and sometimes do more execution with them. To the end, therefore, that ladies may be entire mistresses of the weapon which they bear, I have erected... | |
 | William Minto - 1881 - 596 páginas
...contrast, take a passage from the exquisitely graceful paper on the ' Use of the Fan : '— "Women are armed with fans, as men with swords, and sometimes do more execution with them. To the end therefore that ladies may be entire mistresses of the weapon which they bear, I have erected... | |
 | Jane Austen - 1882 - 396 páginas
...dress sword, and the lady was armed with a fan of nearly equal dimensions. Addison observes that 'women are armed with fans, as men with swords, and sometimes do more execution with them.' The graceful carriage of each weapon was considered a test of high breeding. The clownish man was in... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1882 - 428 páginas
...that I shall give it my reader at length, without either preface or postscript. ' MR. SPECTATOR, Women are armed with fans as men with ' swords, and sometimes do more execution with them. To the end, therefore, that ladies may be entire mistresses of the weapon which they bear, I have erected... | |
 | Austin Dobson - 1882 - 324 páginas
...that I shall give it my reader at length, without either preface or postscript. MR. SPECTAT0R, \\fOMEN are armed with fans as men with swords, and sometimes do more execution with them. To the end therefore that ladies may be entire mistresses of the weapon which they bear, I have erected... | |
 | AUSTIN DOBSON - 1883 - 590 páginas
...I shall give it my reader at length, without either preface or postscript. MR. SPECTATOR, VVf OMEN are armed with fans as men with swords, and sometimes do more execution with them. To the end therefore that ladies may be entire mistresses of the weapon which they bear, I have erected... | |
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Women are armed with fans as men with swords, and sometimes do more execution with them. To the end therefore that ladies may be entire mistresses of the weapon which they bear, I have erected an academy for the training up of young women in the exercise... 
