 | Walter Scott, John Gibson Lockhart - Authors, Scottish - 1837 - 430 pages
...fire, for I found it impossible to get through the very first novel. But is it not,' she said, ' a very odd thing that I, an old woman of eighty and upwards,...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
...fire, for I found it impossible to get through the very first novel. But is it not,' she said, ' a very odd thing that I, an old woman of eighty and upwards,...the first and most creditable society in London.' This, of course, was owing to the gradual improvement of the national taste and delicacy. The change... | |
 | John Gibson Lockhart - Authors, Scottish - 1839 - 454 pages
...fire, for I found it impossible to get through the very first novel. But is it not,' she said, * a very odd thing that I, an old woman of eighty and upwards,...the first and most creditable society in London.' This, of course, was owing to the gradual improvement of the national taste and delicacy. The change... | |
 | George Richardson Porter - Great Britain - 1843 - 500 pages
...fire, for I found it impossible to get through the very first novel. But is it not,' she said, ' a very odd thing that I, an old woman of eighty and upwards,...the first and most creditable society in London.'"* The Report of the Select Committee of the House of Commons, appointed in 1835 to inquire into the state... | |
 | George Richardson Porter - Great Britain - 1843 - 510 pages
...fire, for I found it impossible to get through the very first novel. But is it not,' she said, ' a very odd thing that I, an old woman of eighty and upwards,...consisting of the first and most creditable society in London.'"f The Report of the Select Committee of the House of Commons, appointed in 1835 to inquire... | |
 | 1844 - 878 pages
...for I found it impossible to get through the very first novel. " But is it not," she said, " a very odd thing that I, an old woman of eighty and upwards,...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
...fire, for I found it impossible to get through the very first novel. But is it not,' she said, ' a very odd thing that I, an old woman of eighty and upwards,...of the first and most creditable society in London ? ' This, of course, was owing to the gradual improvement of the national taste and delicacy. The change... | |
 | Earl Philip Henry Stanhope Stanhope - Great Britain - 1854 - 454 pages
...thing," she added, " that I, a woman of eighty, sitting alone, feel " myself ashamed to look through a book which, sixty " years ago, I have heard read aloud for the amusement " of large circles of the best company in London ? " f By the course of novels and romances we may indeed measure, in... | |
 | Philip Henry Stanhope (5th earl.) - 1854 - 456 pages
...thing," she added, " that I, a woman of eighty, sitting alone, feel " myself ashamed to look through a book which, sixty " years ago, I have heard read aloud for the amusement " of large circles of the best company in London ? " f By the course of novels and romances we may indeed measure, in... | |
 | Earl Philip Henry Stanhope Stanhope - Great Britain - 1854 - 460 pages
...thing," she added, " that I, a woman of eighty, sitting alone, feel " myself ashamed to look through a book which, sixty " years ago, I have heard read aloud for the amusement " of large circles of the best company in London ? " f By the course of novels and romances we may indeed measure, in... | |
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I found it impossible to get through the very first novel. But is it not,' she said, ' 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... 
