 | 1814 - 698 pages
...judge demanded, " Whether he was to entitle these ladies spinsters." " No, my lord," said Sir Joseph, " they are lilies -of the valley; they toil not, neither do they spin; yet you see, that no monarch, in all his glory, was ever arrayed like one of these." Vol. I.-... | |
 | Henry Kett - 1825 - 298 pages
...judge demanded, ' Whether he was to entitle these ladies spinsters.' '-No, my lord,' said sir Joseph, ' they are lilies of the valley ; they toil not, neither do they spin ; yet you see, that no monarch, in all his glory, was ever arrayed like one of these.' DR. JOHNSON.... | |
 | Henry Brooke - 1859 - 496 pages
...whether he was to entitle these ladies by the denomination of spinsters? No, my lord, said Sir Joseph, they are lilies of the valley ; they toil not, neither do they spin ; yet you see that no monarch, in all his glory, was ever arrayed like one of these. Another very... | |
 | Cecil B. Hartley - 1860 - 344 pages
...whethei he was to entitle those ladies by the denomination of spinsters. 'No, my Lord, 'said Sir Joseph: 'they are lilies of the valley, they toil not, neither do they spin, yet you see that no monarch, in all his glory, was ever arrayed like one of these.' " Another... | |
 | Casket - 1874 - 840 pages
...whether he was to entitle those ladies by the denomination of spinsters? No, my lurd, said Sir Joseph; they are lilies of the valley, they toil not, neither do they spin, yet учи sec that no monarch, in all his glory, was еит arrayed like one of these. Another... | |
 | Cecil B. Hartley - 1875 - 344 pages
...he was to entitle those ladies by the denomination of spinsters. ' No, my Lord,' said Sir Joseph : ' they are lilies of the valley, they toil not, neither do they spin, yet you see that no monarch, in all his glory, was ever arrayed like one of these.' " Another... | |
 | Ainsworth Rand Spofford, Charles Gibbon - 1893 - 504 pages
...whether he was to entitle those ladies by the denomination of spinsters? No, my lord, said Sir Joseph; they are lilies of the valley, they toil not, neither do they spin, yet you see that no monarch, in all his glory, was ever arrayed like one of these. Another very... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1887 - 704 pages
...was to entitle these ladies by the denomination of spinsters ? " No, my Lord," said Sir Joseph ; " they are lilies of the valley, they toil not, neither do they spin ; yet you see that no monarch, in all his glory, was ever arrayed like one of these." ' Another... | |
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No, my lord, said Sir Joseph; they are lilies of the valley, they toil not, neither do they spin, yet you see that no monarch, in all his glory, was ever arrayed like one of these. 