| John Gibson Lockhart - 1838 - 390 strani
...these words :—' Take back your bonny Mrs Behn ; and, if you will take my advice, put her in the fire, for I found it impossible to get through the very...thing that I, an old woman of eighty and upwards, silling alone, feel myself ashamed lo read a book which, sixly years ago, I have heard read aloud for... | |
| 1844 - 858 strani
...these words : Take back your bonny Mrs Helm, and, if you will take my advice, put her in the fire, for I found it impossible to get through the very...she said, "a very odd thing that I, an old woman of tight y and upwards, Bitting alone, feel myself ashamed to read a book which, sixty yean ago, I have... | |
| William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1856 - 594 strani
...these words: "Take back your bonny Mrs. Behu, and, if you will take my advice, put her in the fire, for I found it impossible to get through the very...myself ashamed to read a book which, sixty years ago, 1 have heard read aloud for the amusement of large circles, consisting of the first and most creditable... | |
| William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1856 - 596 strani
...these words: "Take back your bonny Mrs. Belm, and, if you will take my advice, put her in the fire, for I found it impossible to get through the very...is it not," she said, " a very odd thing that I, an oM woman of eighty and upwards, sitting alone, feel myself ashamed to read a book which, sixty years... | |
| 1861 - 842 strani
...words: ' Take hack your bouny Mrs. Bebn ; and if you will take my advice, put her in the tire, lor I found it impossible to get through the very first...old woman of eighty and upwards, sitting alone, feel ashamed to read a book which, sixty years ago, I have heard read aloud tor the amusement of large circles,... | |
| Francis Jacox - 1870 - 328 strani
...these words : " Take back your bonny Mrs. Behn, and, if you will take my advice, put her in the fire, for I found it impossible to get through the very first novel. But is it not," she added, " a very odd thing that I, an old woman of eighty and upwards, sitting alone, feel myself ashamed... | |
| William Forsyth - 1871 - 366 strani
...: ' Take back your bonny Mrs Behn, and, if you will take my advice, put her in the fire, for I find it impossible to get through the very first novel....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... | |
| William Forsyth - 1871 - 372 strani
...words: ' Take back your bonny Mrs Behn, and, if you will take my advice, put her in the fire, for I find it impossible to get through the very first novel....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... | |
| William Forsyth - 1871 - 352 strani
...: ' Take back your bonny Mrs Behn, and, if you will take my advice, put her in the fire, for I find it impossible to get through the very first novel. But is it not,' she said, ' a very odd thins; that I, an old woman of eighty 7 «/ OJO •/ and upward, sitting alone, feel myself ashamed... | |
| Henry Thomas Buckle - 1872 - 748 strani
...Aphra Behn. He complied, but the old lady promptly returned them, and said to Sir Walter, " Is it not a very odd thing that I, an old woman of eighty and...read a book which, sixty years ago, I have heard read aloiid for the amusement of large circles, consisting of the first and most creditable society in London?"... | |
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