 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - American periodicals - 1887 - 892 pages
...it not a strange thing 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 ?" Two wrongs do not make a right, and want of modesty, dislike of home... | |
 | Clara Helen Whitmore - Authors, English - 1910 - 336 pages
...through the very first novel. But is it not a very odd thing that I, an old woman of eighty and upward, sitting alone, feel myself ashamed to read a book...the first and most creditable society in London?" Mrs. Behn has been accused of great license in her conduct and of gross immorality in her writings.... | |
 | Charles Wells Moulton - American literature - 1910 - 812 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 ?" — SCOTT, SIR WALTER, c 1821, Letter to Lady Louisa Stuart, Lockhart's Life, eh. liv. Her verses... | |
 | Lionel Johnson - English literature - 1911 - 364 pages
...amusements. A relative of Scott, returning to him a novel by Aphra Behn, wrote in 1821 : "Is it not a very odd thing that I, an old woman of eighty and upwards,...of the first and most creditable society in London ? " Said Dr. Johnson : " No, sir, Prior is a lady's book." It is a simple fact, but often ignored,... | |
 | John Morley - Encyclopedists - 1914 - 394 pages
...about the very time when Diderot was writing to Mademoiselle Voland, had heard Mrs. Aphra Behn's books read aloud for the amusement of large circles, consisting...of the first and most creditable society in London. We think of Swift, in an earlier period of the century, enclosing to Stella some recklessly gross verses... | |
 | Evangeline Wilbour Blashfield - Women - 1917 - 512 pages
.... . But is it not a very odd thing that I, an old woman of eighty and upwards sitting alone, should feel myself ashamed to read a book which sixty years...of the first and most creditable society in London ?" Subsequent writers have unhesitatingly adopted the grand aunt's views. Mrs. Behn has been the subject... | |
 | Evangeline Wilbour Blashfield - Women - 1917 - 508 pages
...marked "confidential," "and if you will take my advice put her in the fire. . . . But is it not a very odd 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... | |
 | Evangeline Wilbour Blashfield - Women - 1917 - 514 pages
...marked "confidential," "and if you will take my advice put her in the fire. . . . But is it not a very odd 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... | |
 | Frederick Erastus Pierce - English poetry - 1918 - 358 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," added Sir Walter, "was owing to the gradual improvement of the national taste and... | |
 | 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...the first and most creditable society in London." Although Mrs. Behn contains much that is coarse in itself, and was written to suit a very mixoscopic... | |
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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... 
