 I admired it then, but little dreamed I was indebted for my entertainment to a young lady of Hampstead whom I visited, and who came to Mr. Barbauld's meeting all the while with as innocent a face as if she had never written a line.  Harriet Martineau's Autobiography - Page 358by Harriet Martineau - 1877Full view - About this book
 | Mrs. Barbauld (Anna Letitia), Lucy Aikin - 1825 - 484 pages
...Plays on the Passions. I admired it then, but little dreamed I was indebted for my entertainment to a young lady of Hampstead whom I visited, and who...innocent a face as if she had never written a line. The play is admirably acted by Mrs. Siddons and Kemble, and is finely written, with great purity of... | |
 | Mrs. Anna Letitia - 1825 - 494 pages
...Plays on the Passions. I admired it then, but little dreamed I was indebted for my entertainment to a young lady of Hampstead whom I visited, and who...innocent a face as if she had never written a line. The play is admirably acted by Mrs. Siddons and Kemble, and is finely written, with great purity of... | |
 | Fashion - 740 pages
...indebted for my entertainment to a young lady whom I visited, and who came to Mr. Barbauld's meetings, all the while with as innocent a face as if she had never written a line. The play," she adds, " is admirably played by Mrs. Siddons and Kemble, and is finely written, with... | |
 | Fashion - 1868 - 738 pages
...indebted for my entertainment to a young lady whom I visited, and who came to Mr. Barbauld's meetings, all the while with as innocent a face as if she had never written a line. The play," she adds, " is admirably played by Mrs. Siddons and Kemble, and is finely written, with... | |
 | Robert Walsh, Eliakim Littell, John Jay Smith - 1825 - 622 pages
...admired it then, but little dreamed I was indebted for my entertainment to a young lady of llampstead whom I visited, and who came to Mr. Barbauld's meeting...innocent a face as if she had never written a line. The play is admirably acted by Mrs. Siddons and Kemble, and is finely written, with great purity of... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele - American periodicals - 1861 - 602 pages
...publication of her " Plays on the Passions." " A young lady of Hampstcud who came to Mi's. Barbauld'a meeting with as innocent a face as if she had never written a line." At the time of the treaty of Ghent, Mr. Clay, the American commissioner, was advised to call in Dr.... | |
 | English essays - 1861 - 780 pages
...her 'Plays ou the Pa.-sions :'— •a yountr lady of Hampstead who came to Mrs. Barbauld's meeting with as innocent a face as if she had never written a line.' At the time of the Treaty of Ghent, Mr. Clay, the American commissioner, was advised to call in Dr.... | |
 | Women - 446 pages
...her " Plays on the Passions ": — " A young lady of Hampstead who came to Mrs. Barbauld's meeting with as innocent a face as if she had never written a line." A quarter of a century since Joanna and Agnes had settled their affairs precisely alike, and arranged... | |
 | Mrs. Barbauld (Anna Letitia) - Authors, English - 1874 - 374 pages
...Plays on the Passions." I admired it then, but little dreamed I was indebted for my entertainment to a young lady of Hampstead whom I visited, and who...innocent a face as if she had never written a line. The play is admirably acted by Mrs. Siddons and K enable, and is finely written, with great purity... | |
 | Grace Atkinson Oliver - 1874 - 380 pages
...Plays on the Passions." I admired it then, but little dreamed I was indebted for my entertainment to a young lady of Hampstead whom I visited, and who...innocent a face as if she had never written a line. The play is admirably acted by Mrs. Siddons and Kemble, and is finely written, with great purity of... | |
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