 | 1864 - 876 strani
...was acknowledged by all that knew her. Her brilliant little sister used to say that people began by admiring her, but ended by loving Matilda. For my...if I was a coarse, unworthy being in comparison." Of her death he says: "I can not tell you what I have suffered. The ills that I have undergone in this... | |
 | 1870 - 406 strani
...acknowledged by all who knew her. ' Her brilliant little sister used to say that peo' pie began by admiring her, but ended by ' loving Matilda. For my part, I idolized her Г ' I felt, at times, rebuked by her superior delica1 cy and purity ; and as if I were a coarse, un'... | |
 | Charles Dudley Warner - 1881 - 324 strani
...was acknowledged by all who knew her. Her brilliant little sister used to say that people began by admiring her, but ended by loving Matilda. For my...if I was a coarse, unworthy being in comparison." At this time Irving was much perplexed about his career. He had" a fatal propensity to belles-lettres... | |
 | Charles Dudley Warner - 1881 - 326 strani
...was acknowledged by all who knew her. Her brilliant little sister used to say that people began by admiring her, but ended by loving Matilda. For my...if I was a coarse, unworthy being in comparison." At this time Irving was much perplexed about his career. He had " a fatal propensity to belles-lettres;"... | |
 | Charles Dudley Warner - 1881 - 336 strani
...was acknowledged by all who knew her. Her brilliant little sister used to say that people began by admiring her, but ended by loving Matilda. For my...delicacy and purity, and as if I was a, coarse, unworthy beiug in comparison." At this time Irving was much perplexed about his career. He had " a fatal propensity... | |
 | James Hogg, Florence Marryat - 1882 - 754 strani
...used to say that " people began by admiring her, but ended by loving Matilda." For my part I idolised her. I felt at times rebuked by her superior delicacy and purity, and as if I was a coarse unworthy comparison. ' This passion was terribly against my studies. I felt my own deficiency, and despaired... | |
 | 1883 - 682 strani
...acknowledged by all who knew her. The brilliant little sister need to say that " people began by admiring, but ended by loving Matilda." For my part, I idolized...delicacy and purity, and as if I was a coarse, unworthy comparison. " This passion was terribly against my studies. I felt my own deficiency, and despaired... | |
 | Sarah Knowles Bolton - 1887 - 514 strani
...was acknowledged by all who knew her. Her brilliant little sister used to say that people began by admiring her, but ended by loving Matilda. For my...as if I was a coarse, unworthy being in comparison. . . . In the midst of this struggle and anxiety, Matilda was taken ill with a cold. Nothing was thought... | |
 | 1897 - 42 strani
...little sister used to say that people began by admiring her, but ended in loving Matilda. For my own part, I idolized her. I felt at times rebuked by her superior delicacy and purity, as if I was a coarse, unworthy being in comparison." Irving seldom or never alluded to this sad event,... | |
 | Anne Hollingsworth Wharton, Emily Drayton Taylor - 1898 - 390 strani
...was acknowledged by all who knew her. Her brilliant little sister used to say that people began by admiring her, but ended by loving Matilda. For my...if I was a coarse, unworthy being in comparison." Washington Irving was, at the time of his engagement to Matilda Hoffman, a struggling 156 young writer,... | |
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For my part, I idolized her. I felt at times rebuked by her superior delicacy and purity, and as if I was a coarse, unworthy being in comparison. 
