 | 1862 - 636 pages
...and, if you take my advice, put her in the fire. Rut is it not a strange thins," she added, "that I, a woman of eighty, sitting alone, feel myself ashamed to look through a book which, sixty years ngo, I have heard read aland for the amnsement of large circles of the best company in London."* There... | |
 | Francis Jacox - Literature - 1870 - 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 ?' This of course, as Sir Walter observes,... | |
 | William Forsyth - England - 1871 - 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 ?'" CHAPTER II. DRESS.—MASQUERADES.—DRUMS.—"... | |
 | William Forsyth - England - 1871 - 366 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 ? ' " CHAPTER II. DRESS.— MASQUERADES.—... | |
 | George Alfred Dean - Great Britain - 1871 - 272 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 language, however, still used by... | |
 | William Forsyth - 1871 - 372 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 ?' " CHAPTER II. DKESS.—MASQUERADES.—DRUMS.—"PKETTY... | |
 | William Forsyth - England - 1871 - 352 pages
...that I, an old woman of eighty 7 «/ OJO •/ and upward, sitting alone, feel myself ashamed to read a book which sixty years ago I have heard read aloud for the amusement of lare;e circles, consisting of OJO the first and most creditable society in London ? ' " CHAPTEE II.... | |
 | Henry Thomas Buckle - Great Britain - 1872 - 726 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 ?" (vol. vp 137). Scott gives no date... | |
 | 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... | |
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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... 
