 Haifa dozen of them, when met to work with their needles, used, when they got a book they liked, and thought I should, to borrow me to read to them ; their mothers sometimes with them ; and both mothers and daughters used to be pleased with the observations...  Contributions to the Edinburgh Review - Seite 305von Lord Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey - 1846 - 733 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Walter Scott - 1834 - 506 Seiten
...early favourite with all the young women of taste and reading in the neigh-. bourhood. Half-a-dozen of them, when met to work with their needles, used,...observations they put me upon making.— I was not more than thirteen, when three of these young women, unknown to each other, having an high opinion... | |
 | 1841 - 540 Seiten
...an early favourite with all the young women of taste and reading in the neighbourhood Half-a-dozen of them, when met to work with their needles, used,...the observations they put me upon making. I was not more than thirteen when three of these young women, unknown to each other, having a high opinion of... | |
 | 1841 - 530 Seiten
...an early favourite wilh all the young women of taste and reading in the neighbourhood Half-a-dozen of them, when met to work with their needles, used,...them; and¿ both mothers and daughters used to be p¿eas¿ with the observations they put me upon making. I was not wore than thirteen when three of... | |
 | Robert Walsh, Eliakim Littell, John Jay Smith - 1825 - 622 Seiten
...an early favourite with all the young women of taste and reading in the neighbourhood. Half-a-dozen of them, when met to work with their needles, used,...be pleased with the observations they put me upon making.—I was not more than thirteen, when three of these young women, unknown to each other, having... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1848 - 490 Seiten
...an early favourite with all the young women of taste and reading in the neighbourhood. Half-a-dozen of them, when met to work with their needles, used,...observations they put me upon making.—. I was not more than thirteen, when three of these young women, unknown to each other, having an high opinion... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1848 - 490 Seiten
...an early favourite with all the young women of taste and reading in the neighbourhood. Half-a-dozen of them, when met to work with their needles, used,...observations they put me upon making— I was not more than thirteen, when three of these young women, unknown to each other, having an high opinion... | |
 | 1852 - 782 Seiten
...I was an early favourite with all the young women of taste and reading in the neighbourhood. Half a dozen of them, when met to work with their needles, used, when they gut a book they liked, and thought I should, to borrow me to read to them ; their mothers sometimes... | |
 | Lord Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey - 1853 - 100 Seiten
...I was an early favourite with all the young women of taste and reading in the neighbourhood. Half a dozen of them, when met to work with their needles,...observations they put me upon making. " I was not more than thirteen when three of these young women, unknown to each other, having a high opinion of... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1858 - 780 Seiten
..." I was an early favorite with all the young women of taste and reading in the neighborhood. Half a dozen of them, when met to work with their needles,...pleased with the observations they put me upon making." In this exercise, doubtless, we may see the germ of the future novelist At the age of sixteen he was... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1860 - 778 Seiten
...relates, "I was an early favorite with all the young women of taste and reading in the neighborhood. Haifa dozen of them, when met to work with their needles,...pleased with the observations they put me upon making." In this exercise, doubtless, we may see the germ of the future novelist. At the age of sixteen he was... | |
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