 | Saint Thomas More - 1808 - عدد الصفحات: 334
...and refuseth all her benefits. This is their sentence and opinion of virtue and pleasure.* And they his head upon, he thought himself to be as well lodged...peradventure, lay seldom in a bed of down, or whole feathers." Prefixed to Holinshed's Chronicles, p. 188. * The whole of this is in a fine strain of thought and... | |
 | English poets - 1801 - عدد الصفحات: 444
...seven years after his marriage, pur" chased a mattress or flock bed, and thereto a " sack of chaff to rest his head upon, he thought " himself to be as well lodged as the lord of the " town; who, peradventure, lay seldom in a bed " of down or whole feathers. As for servants, if " they had... | |
 | English poets - 1801 - عدد الصفحات: 446
...seven years after his marriage, pur" chased a mattress or flock bed, and thereto a " sack of chaff to rest his head upon, he thought " himself to be as well lodged as the lord of the * bag. Sax. (from whence daggle or draggle), any thing pendent, a shred. The term therefore seems to... | |
 | 1802 - عدد الصفحات: 888
...seven years after his marringe, ' purchased a mattress or flock bed, ' and thereto a sack of chaff to rest ' his head upon, he thought himself ' to be as well lodged as the lord of ' the town ; who, peradventure, ' lay seldom in a bed of down or ' whole feathers. As for servant«, ' if they... | |
 | John Pinkerton - 1804 - عدد الصفحات: 694
...our fathers, or the good man of the house, had a mattress or flock bed, and thereto a sack of chaff to rest his head upon, he thought himself to be as well lodged as the lord of the lown, so well were they contented. Pillows, said they, were thought meet only for women in child-bed.... | |
 | Ely Bates - 1806 - عدد الصفحات: 445
...the father, or the good man of the house, had a mattress or flock bed, and thereto a sack of chaff to rest his head upon, he thought himself to be as well lodged as the lord of the town : so well were they contented. Pillows, said they, were thought meet only for women in childbed." In... | |
 | David Hume - 1807 - عدد الصفحات: 480
...that the father or the good-man of the house had a mattrass or flock-bed, and thereto a sack of chaff to rest his head upon, he thought himself to be as well lodged as the lord of the town : So well were they contented. Pillows, said they, were thought meet only for women in childbed : As... | |
 | Charles Buck - 1808 - عدد الصفحات: 374
...so that the father or pood man of the house had a mattress or flock bed, and sheets, a sack of chaff to rest his head upon, he thought himself to be as well lodged as the lord of the town. So well were they contented, that pillows (said they) were thought meet only for women in childbed... | |
 | Charles Buck - 1808 - عدد الصفحات: 362
...so that the father or pood man of the house had a mattress or flock bed, and sheets, a sack of chaff to rest his head upon, he thought himself to be as well lodged as the lord of the town. So well were they contented, that pillows (said they) were thought meet only for women in childbed... | |
 | Thomas Downes Wilmot Dearn - 1814 - عدد الصفحات: 382
...the lather, or the good man of the house, had a mattrass or flock bed, and thereto a sack of chaff to rest his head upon, he thought himself to be as well lodged as the Lord of the town ; so well were they contented. Pillows, said they, were thought meet only for women in childbed;, as... | |
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As for servants, if they had any sheet above them, it was well, for seldom had they any under their bodies to keep them from the... 
