 | Horace Walpole (4th earl of Orford.) - 1837 - 462 pages
...so pleased, we might have had the vivacity of our party increased by a quarrel ; for a Mrs. Loyd,9 who is supposed to be married to lord Haddington,...Petersham and miss Ashe, said aloud, "poor girls, I atn sorry to see them in such bad company." Miss Sparre, who desired nothing so much as the fun of... | |
 | Horace Walpole - Authors, English - 1857 - 552 pages
...so pleased, we might have had the vivacity of our party increased by a quarrel; for a Mrs. Lloyd, 1 who is supposed to be married to Lord Haddington,...who desired nothing so much as the fun of seeing a duel,—a thing which, though she is fifteen, she has never been so lucky to see,—took due pains... | |
 | Horace Walpole - Authors, English - 1861 - 552 pages
...have had the vivacity of our party increased by a quarrel ; for a Mrs. Lloyd,1 who is supposed to bo married to Lord Haddington, seeing the two girls following Lady Petersham and Miss Ashe,3 said aloud, " Poor girls, I am sorry to see them in such bad company ! " Miss Sparre, who desired... | |
 | William Forsyth - 1871 - 372 pages
...increased by a quarrel. . . . Miss Spurre, who desired nothing so much as the fun of seeing a duel—a thing which, though she is fifteen, she has never been so lucky to sec—took due pains to make Lord March resent this, but he, who is very lively and agreeable, laughed... | |
 | William Forsyth - England - 1871 - 388 pages
...Johnson/ creased by a quarrel Miss Spurre, who desired nothing so much as the fun of seeing a duel—a thing which, though she is fifteen, she has never been so lucky to see—took due pains to make Lord March resent this, but he, who is very lively and agreeable, laughed... | |
 | Horace Walpole - 1880 - 548 pages
...so pleased, we might have had the vivacity of our party increased by a quarrel ; for a Mrs. Lloyd,1 who is supposed to be married to Lord Haddington,...seeing the two girls following Lady Petersham and Miss Ashe,a said aloud, " Poor girls, I am sorry to see them in such bad company ! " Miss Sparre, who desired... | |
 | Dr. Doran (John) - Actors - 1881 - 368 pages
...Ashe singing. We paraded some time up the river, and at last debarked at Vauxhall. ... A Mrs. Lloyd, seeing the two girls following Lady Petersham and...who desired nothing so much as the fun of seeing a duel—a thing which, though she is fifteen, she has never been so lucky to see—took due pains to... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1885 - 602 pages
...had so pleased, we might have had the vivacity of our party increased by a quarrel; for a Mrs. Lloyd, who is supposed to be married to Lord Haddington,...though she is fifteen, she has never been so lucky as to see, — took due pains to make Lord March resent this ; but he, who is very lively and agreeable,... | |
 | Austin Dobson - 1890 - 544 pages
...Lord Haddington, observing Miss Beauclerc and her companion following Lady Caroline, says audibly, ' Poor girls, I am sorry to see them in such bad company,' — a remark which the 'foolish Miss Sparre ' (she is but fifteen), for the fun of witnessing a duel,... | |
 | William Connor Sydney - Great Britain - 1891 - 384 pages
...bo pleased, 1vc might have had the vivacity of our party increased by a quarrel. . . . Miss Spurre, who desired nothing so much as the fun of seeing a duel — a thing which, though she 1s fifteen, she has never been so lucky to see — took due pains to make Lord March resent this, but... | |
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... and marched to our barge with a boat of French horns attending, and little Ashe singing. We paraded some time up the river, and at last debarked at Vauxhall: there, if we had so pleased, we might have had the vivacity of our party increased by a quarrel;... 
