 | 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... | |
 | 1856 - 596 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." ' Hannah More, to be sure, relates... | |
 | John Halperin - Literary Criticism - 1975 - 352 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,' Scott concluded... | |
 | Barbara Maria Zaczek - Literary Criticism - 1997 - 220 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 credible society in London?' This, of course, was owing to the gradual... | |
 | Jan Baptist Bedaux, Brett Cooke - Art - 1999 - 310 pages
...(...) that I, an old woman of eighty and upwards, sitting alone, feel myself ashamed to read a hook which, sixty years ago, I have heard read aloud for the amusement of large circles, consisting of the best and most creditable circles in London' (Perrin, i970:9). Sometimes narratives... | |
 | Bonnie S. Anderson - History - 2000 - 303 pages
...is it not odd 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 large circles consisting of the first and most creditable society in London?"2' Sexual propriety, previously... | |
 | 1870 - 626 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?" At the close of the book, the author... | |
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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... 
