 | John Fyvie - 1909 - 418 стор.
...poetical parents, especially for a writer of plays ; the first to give the humour and mirth, the last to furnish the graces and powers of attraction. Prostitutes,...players too, must live by pleasing the public ; not but what your Grace may have heard of ladies, who, by private practice, have accumulated amazing great... | |
 | Percy Hetherington Fitzgerald - 1910 - 404 стор.
...poetical parents, especially for a writer of plays — the first, to give the humour and mirth ; the last, to furnish the graces and powers of attraction. Prostitutes...you mean that I really owe my birth to that pleasant connection, your Grace is grossly deceived. My father was, in truth, a very useful magistrate and respectable... | |
 | Charles E. Pearce - 1911 - 376 стор.
...poetical parents, especially for a writer of plays — the first to give the humour and mirth, the last to furnish the graces and powers of attraction. Prostitutes and players too much live by pleasing the public ; not but your grace may have heard of ladies who by private practice... | |
 | 1876 - 862 стор.
...poetical parents, especially for a writer of plays ; the first to give the humour and mirth, the last to furnish the graces and powers of attraction. Prostitutes...private practice have accumulated great fortunes. . . . Pray, madam, is not Jackson the name of your female confidential secretary ? And is she not generally... | |
 | 1880 - 814 стор.
...the humor and mirth, the last to furnish the graces and powers of attraction. Prostitutes and players must live by pleasing the public ; not but your grace...ladies who, by private practice, have accumulated amazing large fortunes. If you mean that I really owe my birth to that pleasing connection, your grace... | |
 | 1788 - 534 стор.
...thelatt to tui nifh the graces and powers of attraction. Proititutfs and Players too mud live by plcafing the public : not but your Grace may have heard of ladies, who, by private practice, have accumulated amazing great fortunts. If you mean that I really owe my birth to that pk'afant connection, your Grace... | |
 | 1775 - 780 стор.
...furnifli the graces, and powers of attraction. Proftitutes, and Players too, muft live by pleafing the public ; not but your Grace may have heard of ladies, who, by private practice, have accumulated amazing great fortunes. If you mean that 1 really owe my birth to that pleafant connection, your Grace... | |
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I presume, merely metaphorical persons, and to be considered as the authors of my muse and not of my manhood. A merry andrew and a prostitute are no bad poetical parents, especially for a writer of plays — the first to give the humour and mirth; the... 
