 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
 | Edward Everett Hale (Jr.) - 1904 - 440 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 eyes with such a reality of representment that I became in doubt which of them stood there... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1904 - 460 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, sometimes 25 in despair, yet persisting ever, I courted the fair Alice W n ; and, as much as children could understand,... | |
 | 1905 - 474 pages
...fell a crying and asked if their little mourning which they had on was not for Uncle John, and 242 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... | |
 | Jeannette Leonard Gilder - 1905 - 330 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, and... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1905 - 352 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, sometimes 25 in despair, yet persisting ever, I courted the fair Alice W n ; and, as much as children could understand,... | |
 | Roy Bennett Pace - 1918 - 986 pages
...me not to go on about their uncle, but to tell them some stories about 130 their pretty dead mother. Then I told how for seven long years, in hope sometimes,...sometimes in despair, yet persisting ever, I courted the fail Alice W — — n ; and, as much as children could understand, I explained to them what coyness,... | |
 | Alfred Edward Newton - 1918 - 584 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, sometimes in despair, yet persisting ever, • ' LFN9X ". j \-J' NS I courted the fair Alice W n; and, as much as children could understand, I... | |
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - 1920 - 492 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, and... | |
 | Charles Herbert Sylvester - 1922 - 530 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;16 and, as much as children could understand, I explained to them what coyness, and difficulty, and... | |
 | University of Michigan. Department of Rhetoric and Journalism - 1923 - 444 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 and denial... | |
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