 | 1777 - 750 sivua
...the iweet creature complete for a bride, Let the coik-cutter make her я lump. Thus fmlfh'd in tade, while on Chloe you gaze, You may take the dear charmer for life; But never undrcis her ; — for, out oi her ftayi, You'll find you have loft half your wife. \Vhild the prompt... | |
 | George Wentworth - 1824 - 378 sivua
...to deck the sweet creature complete for a bride, Let the cork-cutter make her a rump. Thus finish' d in taste, while on Chloe you gaze, - You may take the dear charmer for life ; But never undress her — for, out of her stays, You'll find you have lost half your wife. ON THE ELECTION OF THE DUKE... | |
 | John Fanning Watson - 1830 - 902 sivua
...high for to walk or to jump, And to deck the sweet creature complete for a bride Let the cork cutter make her a rump. Thus finish'd in taste, while on...take the dear charmer for life, But never undress her— for, out of her stays, You'll find you have lost half your wife ! Rfhen the ladies first began... | |
 | John Fanning Watson - 1832 - 244 sivua
...roll of horse hair under their garments ! An old satire said, " Thus finish'd in taste, while on her you gaze, You may take the dear charmer for life, But never undress her, for out of her stays, You'll find you have lost half your wife.1' Next they supplied their place... | |
 | Journal - 1844 - 296 sivua
...to guess at their shapes, so that it has been truly observed, " Thus finished in taste while on her you gaze You may take the dear charmer for life ; But never undress her, for out of her stays You'll find you have lost half your wife." There are above 20,000 coloured... | |
 | Frederick William Fairholt - 1846 - 640 sivua
...1777 : " Give Chloe a bushel of horse hair and wool ; Of paste and pomatum a pound ; Ten yards of gay ribbon to deck her sweet skull ; And gauze to encompass...take the dear charmer for life ; But never undress her, for, out of her stays, You'll find you have lost half your wife !" ladies is well ridiculed in... | |
 | Frederick William Fairholt - 1846 - 660 sivua
...for to walk or to jump ; And to deck the sweet creature complete for a hride, Let the cork -cutter make her a rump. Thus finish'd in taste, while on...take the dear charmer for life ; But never undress her, for, out of her stays, You'll find you have lost half your wife !" The constant variation in the... | |
 | C. Sealsfield - 1846 - 988 sivua
...fфïюinbfüф' tigen 9îeh!iiorfermnen, »on benen unferî^ter fagt: Thus finished in taste, while on her you gaze, You may take the dear charmer for life, But never undress her , for out of her stays You'll find, you have lost half your wife. »Фи ïennji meinen ®efd)maá,... | |
 | John Fanning Watson - 1846 - 440 sivua
...in taste, while on her you gaze, You may take the dear charmer for life, But never undress her, for out of her stays, You'll find you have lost half your wife." Next they supplied their place with silk or calimanco, or russell thickly quilted and inlaid with wool,... | |
 | Frederick William Fairholt - 1846 - 638 sivua
...to deck the sweet creature complete for a bride, Let the cork-cutter make her a rump. Thus finlsh'd in taste, while on Chloe you gaze, You may take the dear charmel' for life ; But never undress her, for, out of her stays, You'll find you have lost half your... | |
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Let her flaps fly behind, for a yard at the least ; Let her curls meet just under her chin ; Let these curls be supported, to keep up the jest, With an hundred, instead of one pin. Let her gown be tuck'd up to the hip on each side ; Shoes too high for... 
