 | Walter Scott, John Gibson Lockhart - Authors, Scottish - 1837 - 430 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 Ihe amusement of large circles, consistfng of the first and most creditable society of London.' This,... | |
 | John Gibson Lockhart - 1839 - 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... | |
 | John Gibson Lockhart - Authors, Scottish - 1839 - 454 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... | |
 | George Richardson Porter - Great Britain - 1843 - 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.'"* The Report of the Select Committee... | |
 | 1844 - 878 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 largo circles, consisting of the first and most creditable society in London ?" ' — Loctluirt'a Life... | |
 | John Gibson Lockhart - 1848 - 452 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... | |
 | T P Grinsted - Great Britain - 1859 - 342 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 ? ' " The Abbey cloisters received from... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - Electronic journals - 1898 - 872 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?'" Sir Walter Scott puts this change... | |
 | Edward Bannerman Ramsay - Fiction - 1860 - 328 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 ? " There can be no doubt that at the... | |
 | Edward Bannerman Ramsay - 1862 - 508 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 ? " There can be no doubt that at the... | |
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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... 
