 | Richmond Athenaeum - 1886 - 388 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." I am thankful that we, with many faults... | |
 | William Henry Hudson - English literature - 1897 - 266 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 ! ' " (See Lockhart's Scott, chap, liv.)... | |
 | William Henry Hudson - English literature - 1897 - 258 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 ! ' " (See Lockhart's Scott, chap, liv.)... | |
 | Whitwell Elwin - Authors, English - 1902 - 574 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?'"1 Hannah More, to be sure, relates... | |
 | Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1902 - 860 pages
...very odd thing that I, an old woman of eighty and upwards, sitting alone, feel myself ashamed to read d sweet pleasures I felt in my breast : Sore consisting of the first and most creditable society in London?"' Like so many of her contemporaries,... | |
 | Henry Fielding - 1903 - 240 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... | |
 | Henry Grey Graham - Scotland - 1906 - 568 pages
...an 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 ? " — Life of Sir \V. Scott, vi. 406.... | |
 | Clara Helen Whitmore - Authors, English - 1910 - 336 pages
...very odd thing that I, an old woman of eighty and upward, 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?" Mrs. Behn has been accused of great... | |
 | Charles Wells Moulton - American literature - 1910 - 812 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 ?" — SCOTT, SIR WALTER, c 1821, Letter... | |
 | Evangeline Wilbour Blashfield - Women - 1917 - 508 pages
...thing that I, an old woman of eighty and upwards sitting alone, should 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 ?" Subsequent writers have unhesitatingly... | |
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a 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... 
