 Then I told how for seven long years, in hope sometimes, sometimes in despair, yet persisting ever, I courted the fair Alice W n ; and, as much as children could understand, I explained to them what coyness, and difficulty, and denial meant in maidens...  The Cornhill Magazine - Page 599edited by - 1904Full view - About this book
 | Ethan Allen Andrews - 1844 - 356 pages
...prayed me not to go on about their uncle, but to tell them some stories about their pretty dead mother. Then I told how, for seven long years, in hope sometimes,...despair, yet persisting ever, I courted the fair Alice W—n; and, as much as children cculd understand, I explained to them what coyness, and difficulty,... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 738 pages
...prayed me not to go on abou: their uncle, but to tell them some stories about their pretty dead mother. t jet persisting ever, I courted the fair Alice W — n ; and, as much as children could understand,... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1845 - 398 pages
...prayed me not to go on about their uncle, but to tell them some stories about their pretty dead mother. Then I told how for seven long years, in hope sometimes,...despair, yet persisting ever, I courted the fair Alice W — n ; and, as much as children could understand, I explained to them what coyness, and difficulty,... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1850 - 406 pages
...prayed me not to go on about their uncle, but to tell them some stories about their pretty dead mother. Then I told how for seven long years, in hope sometimes,...despair, yet persisting ever, I courted the fair Alice W — n; and, as much as children could understand, I explained to them what coyness, and difficulty,... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1851 - 396 pages
...prayed me not to go on about their uncle, but to tell them some stories about their pretty dead mother. Then I told how for seven long years, in hope sometimes,...despair, yet persisting ever, I courted the fair Alice W — n ; and, as much as children could understand, I explained to them what coyness, and difficulty,... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1852 - 684 pages
...years, in hope sometimes, sometimes in despair, yet persisting ever, I courted the fair Alice W — n ; er as the deathbeds of those geniuses are contrasted in the prints, which I am sorry to say iu maidens — when suddenly, turning to Alice, the soul of the first Alice looked out at her eyes... | |
 | 1853 - 346 pages
...prayed me not to go on about their uncle, but to tell them some stories about their pretty dead mother. Then I told how, for seven long years, in hope sometimes,...despair, yet persisting ever, I courted the fair Alice W — n; and, as much as children ctuld understand, I explained to them what coyness, and difficulty,... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1855 - 798 pages
...stories about their pretty dead mother. Then I told how for seven long years, in hope sometimes, and sometimes in despair, yet persisting ever, I courted the fair Alice W n ; and, as much as children could under. stand, I explained to them what coyness, and difficulty,... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1856 - 408 pages
...stories about their pretty dead mother. Then I told how for seven long years, in hope sometimes, and sometimes in despair, yet persisting ever, I courted the fair Alice W— — n ; and, as much as children could understand, I explained to them what coyness," and difficulty,... | |
 | 1918 - 1012 pages
...Children, A Reverie,' Lamb, speaking apparently more autobiographically than usual even for him, says, — 'Then I told how, for seven long years, in hope sometimes,...despair, yet persisting ever, I courted the fair Alice W n; and, as much as children could understand, I explained to them what coyness, and difficulty, and... | |
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