| William Makepeace Thackeray - Great Britain - 1925 - 434 pages
...passage run so? "In this accomplished lady love is the constant effect, though it is never the design ; yet though her mien carries much more invitation than command, to behold her is an immediate check to loose behaviour, and to love her is a liberal education." ' ' Oh, indeed ! ' says Mrs. Steele, who... | |
| James Emery Cox - English drama - 1926 - 216 pages
...Tatler 49 occurs what many believe to be the finest compliment ever paid by any man to any woman : "Though her mien carries much more invitation than command, to behold her is an immediate check to loose behavior, and to love her is a liberal education.12 Steele insists that women shall bestow graces... | |
| William Makepeace Thackeray - Great Britain - 1927 - 550 pages
...run so ' ? "In this accomplished lady love is the constant effect, though it is never the design ; yet though her mien carries much more invitation than command, to behold her is an immediate check to loose behaviour, and to love her is a liberal education." ' ' Oh, indeed!' says Mrs. Steele, who did... | |
| Willard Connely - 1934 - 490 pages
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| Milton Marx - Drama - 1940 - 264 pages
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