10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «UPON MY WORD!»
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upon my word! in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
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The London Magazine, Or, Gentleman's Monthly Intelligencer
Yet when he sigh'd and talk'd of love, His passion I'd forbid ; For what I felt to hide
I strove,—* Upon my word I did. 2. The spring, when nature wakes to youth, And
all looks life and joy ; The summer's fun saw Strephon'* truth, Saw Chloe still ...
2
The London Magazine, Or, Gentleman's Monthly Intelligencer
Yet when he figh'd and talk'd of love, His paffion I'd forbid ; For what I felt.to hide I
drove,— Upon my word 1 did. 2. The fprirg, when nature wakes to youth, And all
looks life and joy ; The fummer's fun faw Strephon's truth, Saw Chloe ftill was coy
...
Isaac Kimber, Edward Kimber, 1754
3
London Magazine: Or, Gentleman's Monthly Intelligencer...
Yet when he figh'd and talk'd of love, His passion I'd forbid ; For what I felt to hide I
strove,— Upon my word I did. 2. The spring, when nature waket to youth, And all
looks life and joy ; The summer's fun saw Strephon's truth, Saw Chloe still was ...
4
A Complete Collection of State Trials and Proceedings for ...
Upon my word I do not recollect whether there was or was not. Can you say
whether any minutes were read to you for your approbation ?—-I protest I cannot
give an answer to it. Did you ever give your consent, to say the charge of the
linen ...
Thomas Bayly Howell, Thomas Jones Howell, 1816
5
Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay, Author of Evelina ...
Upon my word, I never read anything higher ! I declare I never laughed so in my
life. And, give me leave to say, for ' that sort of thing,' I think that Captain a very
ingenious sort of man ; upon my word he is quite smart in some of his replies ; but
...
Fanny Burney, Charlotte Barrett, 1842
And, give me leave to say, for ' that sort of thing,' I think that Captain a very
ingenious sort of man ; upon my word he is quite smart in some of his replies ; but
he is too hard upon the old Frenchwoman, too. In the evening he came to tea,
with Mr.
7
The General Index as to Twenty-seven Volumes of the London ...
A NEW SONG. me so dear, 'Twas rapture all the live C song his pipe to hear, His
song his pipe to hear 5 Yet when he sigh'd and talk'd of love, His passion I'd
forbid, For what I felt to hide I strove. Upon my word I did, Upon my word I ' did.
8
Cobbett's Complete Collection of State Trials and ...
It was Mr. Cust. Do you recollect, whether there were any minutes taken of that
day's proceeding ? — Upon my word I do not recollect whether there was or was
not. Can you say whether any minutes were read to you for your approbation ?
Thomas Bayly Howell, Thomas Jones Howell, William Cobbett, 1814
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The Critical Review, Or, Annals of Literature
Upon my word, sir," cried his lordship, " I am very sorry — very sorry to hear all
this. The more so— the more so, Mr. Montgomery, because I give you my word of
honour that my own estate, and the places — the places I have the honour to be ...
Tobias George Smollett, 1791
10
Essays, Moral and Humorous: Also Essays on Imagination and Taste
There was my Lady Stately, and my Lady Lar u in, and Mrs Dainty, and Miss
Biddy Gigler, upon my word a very good-natured young lady, with a very pretty
fortune, Sir. There was also my Lord Straddle, Sir John Shrug, and Master Billy
Chatter, ...
