 | Evangeline Wilbour Blashfield - Women - 1917 - 514 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... | |
 | Frederick Erastus Pierce - English poetry - 1918 - 358 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," added Sir Walter,... | |
 | Charles Hamilton Hughes - Neurology - 1905 - 570 pages
...thing that I, an old woman of 80 and upwards, sitting alone, feel ashamed to read a book which, 60 years ago, I have heard read aloud for the amusement of large circles, consisting of the first and most creditable society in London." Although Mrs. Behn contains much that... | |
 | Laurie Magnus - Literary Criticism - 1926 - 618 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 '. Autres temps, autre* moeurs : but... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1936 - 540 pages
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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... 
