"49th" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... ladies are the cause!" says her entertainer. "Madam, is Dick a good swordsman? How charming the Tatler is! We all recognized your portrait in the 49th number, and I have been dying to know you ever since I read it. 'Aspasia must be allowed to be the first of the beauteous order of love.' Doth not the passage run so? 'In this accomplished lady love is the constant effect, though it is never the ...
— Henry Esmond; The English Humourists; The Four Georges • William Makepeace Thackeray
... cit. iv. 370-1. About the same date as Knebel's letter, Goethe wrote to Sophie von la Roche: "Das ist was Verfluchtes dass ich anfange mich mit niemand mehr misszuverstehen." In his 49th year Goethe said of himself: ...
— The Youth of Goethe • Peter Hume Brown |
