It was well said by a late eminent barrister, that literature in ladies should be what onions ought to be in cookery; you should perceive the flavour, but not detect the thing itself.
Excerpt from The Habits of Good Society
Anonymous, 1859
It was well said by a late eminent barrister, that literature in ladies should be what onions ought to be in cookery; you should perceive the flavour, but not detect the thing itself.
Excerpt from The Habits of Good Society
Anonymous, 1859