 Laureate in one of his comedies. Some inattentive and undiscerning people have, I know, taken it to be a term synonymous with coquetry ; but I lay hold of this opportunity to undeceive them, and eventually to inform Mr. Johnson, that flirtation is short...  Temple Bar - Сторінка 315редактори - 1871Повний перегляд - Докладніше про цю книгу
 | 1803 - 318 стор.
...; but I lay hold of this opportunity to undeceive them, and eventually to inform Mr. Johnson, that flirtation is short of coquetry, and intimates only...articles, that commonly end in a definitive treaty. I was also a witness of the rise and progress of that most important verb, to Fuzz ; which, if not... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1808 - 306 стор.
...opportunity to undeceive them, and eventually to inform Mr. Johnson, that FLIRTATION is short of coquetiy, .and intimates only the first hints of approximation,...articles, that commonly end in a definitive treaty. I was also a witness to the rise and progress of that most important verb, TO FUZZ; which, if not of... | |
 | James Ferguson - 1823 - 418 стор.
...coquetry; but I lay hold of this opportunity to undeceive them, and eventually to inform Mr. Johnson, that flirtation is short of coquetry, and intimates only...articles, that commonly end in a definitive treaty. I was also a witness to the rise and progress of that most important verb, to fuzz; which, if not of... | |
 | Lionel Thomas Berguer - 1823 - 620 стор.
...; but I lay hold of this opportunity to undeceive them, and eventually to inform Mr. Johnson, that flirtation is short of coquetry, and intimates only...articles, that commonly end in a definitive treaty. I was also a witness to the rise and progress of that most important verb, to Fuzz ; which, if mot... | |
 | Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield - 1853 - 764 стор.
...coquetry; but I lay hold of this opportunity to undeceive them, and eventually to inform Mr Johnson, that flirtation is short of coquetry, and intimates only...hints of approximation, which subsequent coquetry mny reduce to those preliminary articles that commonly end in a definitive treaty. " I was also a witness... | |
 | 1873 - 618 стор.
...Johnson, that flirtation is short of coquetry, and intimates only the first hints of aproximation, I which subsequent coquetry may reduce to those preliminary...articles, that commonly end in a definitive treaty." Johnson treated the word flirtation, as derived from flirt, " to throw anything with a quick elastic... | |
 | William Shepard Walsh - 1892 - 1114 стор.
...coquetry ; but I lay hold of this opportunity to undeceive them, and eventually to inform Mr. Johnson that flirtation is short of coquetry, and intimates only...those preliminary articles that commonly end in a definite treaty." — TTte World, No. loi ; also quoted in " British Essayists," vol. ci. p. 210. It... | |
 | William S. Walsh - 1892 - 1116 стор.
...coquetry; but I lay hold of this opportunity to undeceive them, and eventually to inform Mr. Johnson that y Ford, Whose soul, we trust, is with the Lord; V*...changed this life, 'Tis better than being John Ford's w definite treaty."—TTu World, No. 101 ; also quoted in " British Essayists," vol. ci. p. 210. He once... | |
 | Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield - 1892 - 582 стор.
...coquetry, and intimates only the first hints * Colley Cibber, Poet Laureate since 1730 ; he died in 1757. of approximation, which subsequent coquetry may reduce...articles that commonly end in a definitive treaty. I was also a witness to the rise and progress of that most important verb, TO FUZZ, which, if not of... | |
 | 1871 - 582 стор.
...to create a word of mighty import. Whether for purposes of love or quarrel, the phrases. they coined were a true mintage, in his judgment, especially when...novel application of old terms. " They take a word," he remarked, " and change it, like a guinea into shillings, for pocket-money, to be employed in the... | |
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