 | Samuel Richardson - 1804 - 400 pagina’s
...Rivington any farther trouble, for some time at least, but desire yours to me may be sent as usual. Pray, Sir, give me leave to ask you ( I forgot it...have generally received for answer, it 'is — it is— sentimental. Every thing clever and agreeable is comprehended in that word; but am convinced... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1880 - 800 pagina’s
...of the earliest discussions of the word. "What," asks Lady I?radshaigh (writing to him about 1749), "is the meaning of the word sentimental, so much in...polite, both in town and country ? In letters and common conversations I have asked several who made use of it, and have generally received for answer, it is... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1880 - 824 pagina’s
...polite, both in town and country ? In letters and common conversations I have asked several who made use of it, and have generally received for answer, it is — it is — sentimental. Everything clever and agreeable is comprehended in that word ; but I am convinced... | |
 | 1880 - 798 pagina’s
...polite, both in town and country ? In letters and common conversations, I have asked several who made use of it, and have generally received for answer, it is — it is — sentimental. Everything clever and agreeable is comprehended in that word ; but I am convinced... | |
 | Samuel Richardson - 1883 - 502 pagina’s
...noticed in a letter of Lady Bradshaigh's, written apparently in 1749. 'What is the meaning,' she asks, ' of the word sentimental, so much in vogue amongst the polite, both in town and country ? Everything clever and agreeable is comprehended in that word ; but I am convinced a wrong interpretation... | |
 | Samuel Richardson, Leslie Stephen - 1883 - 514 pagina’s
...noticed in a letter of Lady Bradshaigh's, written apparently in 1749. 'What is the meaning,' she asks, ' of the word sentimental, so much in vogue amongst the polite, both in town and country ? Everything clever and agreeable is comprehended in that word ; but I am convinced a wrong interpretation... | |
 | David Masson, George Grove, John Morley, Mowbray Walter Morris - 1899 - 536 pagina’s
...sentimental, so much in vogue of late. " In letters and common conversations I have asked several who made use of it, and have generally received for answer, it is — it is — sentimental. Everything clever and agreeable is comprehended in the word ; but I am convinced... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1906 - 362 pagina’s
...Bradshaigh) writing from Lincolnshire to Richardson says : — ' Pray, Sir, give me leave to ask you . . . what, in your opinion, is the meaning of the word...and have generally received for answer, it is — it is — sentimental. Every thing clever and agreeable is comprehended in that word ; but [I] am convinced... | |
 | 1906 - 506 pagina’s
...noticed in a letter of Lady Bradshaiglis, written apparently in 1749." Die volle Briefstelle lautet: "Pray, Sir, give me leave to ask you (I forgot it...polite, both in town and country, in letters and common conversations? I have asked several who make use of it, and have generally received for answer, it... | |
 | Leon Kellner, Gustav Krüger - 1906 - 502 pagina’s
...noticed in a letter of Lad}' Bradshaighs, written apparently in 1749." Die volle Briefstelle lautet: "Pray, Sir, give me leave to ask you (I forgot it...polite, both in town and country, in letters and common conversations? I have asked several who make use of it, and have generally received for answer, it... | |
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Pray, Sir, give me leave to ask you (I forgot it before) what, in your opinion, is the meaning of the word sentimental... 
