 | 1856 - 596 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." ' Hannah More, to be sure, relates that the only occasion on which Johnson was angry with her was when... | |
 | Jane Austen - Literary Criticism - 1975 - 352 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,' Scott concluded with a smugness that sets off all the more distinctly his beautiful... | |
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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... 
