 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
 | Warner Taylor - 1923 - 524 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... | |
 | Stephen Coleridge - 1923 - 290 pages
...children " creep about him " as they might have, had life been otherwise. The reverie ends thus : " 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... | |
 | Augustine Birrell - 1923 - 396 pages
...power of literature to bestow. It was Lamb, and not Coleridge, who wrote Dream-Children: a Reverie: 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... | |
 | Arthur James John Ratcliff - 1923 - 264 pages
...John, a spirited youth, they began to weep, and begged him to stop and tell them about their mother. " Then I told how for seven long years, in hope sometimes,...despair, yet persisting ever, I courted the fair Alice W n; when suddenly turning to Alice, the soul ot the first Alice looked out of her eyes with such a reality... | |
 | Félix François Boillot - 1924 - 176 pages
...me not to go on about their uncle, but to tell them 125 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,... | |
 | Harry Morgan Ayres, Frederick Morgan Padelford - 1924 - 942 pages
...prayed me not to go on about their uncle, but to tell them some stories about their pretty dead mother. ung about his head Like cloud on cloud. No stir of...much life as on a summer's day Robs not one light see n ; and, as much as children could understand, I explained to them what coyness, and difficulty, and... | |
 | University of Michigan. Dept. of Rhetoric and Journalism - 1924 - 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,...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... | |
 | Félix François Boillot - 1924 - 180 pages
...me not to go on about their uncle, but to tell them 125 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,... | |
 | Edwin Almiron Greenlaw, William Harris Elson, Christine M. Keck - 1923 - 648 pages
...me not to go on about 30 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 in despair, yet persisting ever, I courted NOTES AND QUESTIONS Explanatory Notes 1. Charles Lamb was an intimate friend of Coleridge, the poet.... | |
 | William Joseph Long - 1925 - 844 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 30 much as children could understand, I explained to them what coyness, and difficulty,... | |
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