“Though on pleasure she was bent,
She had a frugal mind.”
William Cowper (1731–1800) (1731–1800) English poet and hymnodist
St. 8.
The Diverting History of John Gilpin (1785)
“[W]hat will not a delicately nurtured British lady go through when her mind is bent either on pleasure or duty?”
— Thomas Hughes, book Tom Brown at Oxford
Source: Tom Brown at Oxford (1861), Ch. 25
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