 | Henry Fielding - 1872 - 250 pages
...odd thing that I, an old woman of eighty and upwards, " sitting alone, feel myself ashamed to read a book which sixty years ago " I have heard read aloud for the amusement of large circles, consisting " of the first and most creditable society in London ? " But, as it is the settled and general... | |
 | George Otto Trevelyan - Authors, English - 1876 - 500 pages
...very odd thing that I, an old woman of eighty and upwards, sitting alone, feel myself ashamed to read a book which, sixty years ago, I have heard read aloud for the amusement of large circles, consisting of the first and most creditable society in London ? " to foresee what was coming, or you... | |
 | George Otto Trevelyan - 1876 - 652 pages
...old woman of eighty and upwards, sitting alone, feel myself ashamed to read a book which, sixty yeara ago^ I have heard read aloud for the amusement of large circles, consisting of the first and most creditable society in London ? " 4 who agreed with me, brought against... | |
 | Eugen Kölbing, Johannes Hoops, Reinald Hoops - Comparative linguistics - 1881 - 536 pages
...you will follow my advice, put her in the fire. But is it not a stränge thing«, she added, *that I, a woman of eighty, sitting alone , feel myself ashamed...which, sixty years ago, I have heard read aloud for the amuse. ment of large circles of the best company in London.« Und Mahon 3, 326, wie der herzog von... | |
 | English philology - 1881 - 594 pages
...follow my advice, put her in the fire. But is it not a strange thing«, she added, »that I, a 302 woman of eighty, sitting alone, feel myself ashamed...which, sixty years ago, I have heard read aloud for the amuse, ment of large circles of the best company in London.« Und Mahon 3, 326, wie der herzog von... | |
 | John Gibson Lockhart - 1882 - 456 pages
...very odd thing that I, an old woman of eighty and upwards, sitting alone, feel myself ashamed to read a book which, sixty years ago, I have heard read aloud for the amusement of large circles, consisting of the first and most creditable society in London.' This, of course, was owing to the gradual... | |
 | John Gibson Lockhart - 1882 - 458 pages
...very odd thing that I, an old woman of eighty and upwards, sitting alone, feel myself ashamed to read a book which, sixty years ago, I have heard read aloud for the amusement of large circles, consisting of the first and most creditable society in London.' This, of course, was owing to the gradual... | |
 | Eric Sutherland Robertson - Authors - 1883 - 416 pages
...very odd thing that I, an old woman of eighty and upwards, sitting alone, feel myself ashamed to read a book which, sixty years ago, I have heard read aloud for the amusement of large circles, consisting of the first and most creditable society in London ? " Berners, who flourished about 1460,... | |
 | Dougal Graham, George Mac Gregor - Chapbooks - 1883 - 290 pages
...very odd thing that I, an old woman of eighty and upwards, sitting alone, feel myself ashamed to read a book which, sixty years ago, I have heard read aloud for the amusement of large circles, consisting of the first and most creditable society in London !"'-(- It is well that such should be... | |
 | 1856 - 644 pages
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