 | Richard Allestree (D.D.) - 1677 - 314 pagina’s
...fcarce hold weight at his Tribunal , who has commanded us to redeem , not fling away our time. ; n. THERE is another thing to which fome devote a very...feems now to be thought the peculiar and only becoming ftudy of young Ladies. I coniefs their Youth may a little adapt, it to them when they were Children... | |
 | Richard Allestree - 1705 - 338 pagina’s
...will fcarce hold weight at his Tribunal, who has commanded us to redeem , not fling away our time. ii. THERE is another thing to which fome devote a very...confiderable part of their time, and that is the reading of Romances , which feems now to be thought the peculiar and only becoming ftudy of young Ladies. I... | |
 | Richard Allestree - 1713 - 302 pagina’s
...Tribunal, who has commanded us to redeem, not fling away our time. ii. THERE is another thing to which fbme devote a very confiderable part of their time, and that is the reading of Rpmances^ which feems now to be thought the peculiar and only becoming ftudy of young Ladies. I... | |
 | Richard Allestree - 1727 - 298 pagina’s
...Tribunal, who has commanded us to redeem, not fling away our time. ii. THERE is another thing to which fbme devote a very confiderable part of their time, and that is the reading of J(omancest which feems now to be thought the peculiar and only becoming ftudy of young Ladies. I... | |
 | 1743 - 440 pagina’s
...from whence it derives its Licence. There is another Thing to which fome devote a very considerable Part of their Time, and that is, the reading Romances,...and only becoming Study of young Ladies. It muft be confefled their Youth may be a little adapted to them when they were Children, and we wifh they were... | |
 | Myra Reynolds - 1920 - 542 pagina’s
...which some devote a very considerable part of their time, and that is the reading Romances, which seems now to be thought the peculiar and only becoming study of young 1 Letters from Dorothy Osborne to Sir William Temple, passim. 1 Pepys: Diary, Dec. 7, 1860; Feb. 10,... | |
 | Myra Reynolds - 1920 - 546 pagina’s
...which some devote a very considerable part of their time, and that is the reading Romances, which seems now to be thought the peculiar and only becoming study of young 1 Letters from Dorothy Osborne to Sir William Temple, passim. 1 Pepys: Diary, Dec. 7, 1600; Feb. 10,... | |
 | William B. Warner - 1998 - 346 pagina’s
...In the section "The Duty of Virgins" there are strictures against "the reading romances, which seems now to be thought the peculiar and only becoming Study of young Ladies . . . [because] it is to be feared they often leave ill Impressions behind them. Those amorous Passions,... | |
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THERE is another thing to which fome devote a very confiderable part of their time , and that is the reading Romances , which feems now to be thought the peculiar and only becoming ftudy of young Ladies. I... 