Then I told how for seven long years, in hope sometimes, sometimes in despair, yet persisting ever, I courted the fair Alice W n ; 8 and, as much as children could understand, I explained to them what coyness, and difficulty, and denial meant in maidens... The Essays of Elia - Страница 97по Charles Lamb - 1907 - 226 странициПълен достъп - Информация за книгата
| Charles Herbert Sylvester - 1922 - 530 страници
...years, in hope sometimes, sometimes in despair, yet persisting ever, I courted the fair Alice W n;16 and, as much as children could understand, I explained...representment, that I became in doubt which of them stood before me, or whose that bright hair was; and while I stood gazing, both the children gradually grew... | |
| Augustine Birrell - 1923 - 396 страници
...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...representment that I became in doubt which of them stood before me, or whose that bright hair was; and while I stood gazing, both the children gradually grew... | |
| Warner Taylor - 1923 - 524 страници
...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...what coyness, and difficulty, and denial meant in maidens—when suddenly, turning to Alice, the soul of the first Alice looked out at her eyes with... | |
| Félix François Boillot - 1924 - 180 страници
...could understand, I explained to them what coyness, and difficulty, and denial meant in maidens — 130 when suddenly turning to Alice, the soul of the first...stood gazing, both the children gradually grew fainter lo my view, receding, and 135 still receding, till nothing at last but two mournful features were seen... | |
| Félix François Boillot - 1924 - 176 страници
...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...coyness, and difficulty, and denial meant in maidens — 130 when suddenly turning to Alice, the soul of the first Alice looked out at her eyes with such... | |
| William Joseph Long - 1925 - 844 страници
...hope sometimes, sometimes in despair, yet persisting ever, I courted the fair Alice W n ; and, as 30 much as children could understand, I explained to...became in doubt which of them stood there before me, or 35 whose that bright hair was ; and while I stood gazing, both the children gradually grew fainter... | |
| George William McClelland - 1925 - 1178 страници
...sometimes, sometimes in despair, yet persisting ever, 1 courted the fair Alice W n ; 1 and, as~much loufcM dutjatjer eyes with suili a lealily of re-presentment, that I became in doubt i which ofthem... | |
| Rudolph Wilson Chamberlain, Joseph Sheldon Gerry Bolton - 1923 - 392 страници
...years, in hope sometimes, sometimes in despair, yet persisting ever, I courted the fair Alice W n;1 and, as much as children could understand, I explained to them what coyness, and difficulty, and 'Ann Simmons, with whom Lamb had fallen in love on his visits to Hertfordshire. denial meant in maidens... | |
| Sister Mary Madeleva - 1925 - 240 страници
...Lay, felt not, twenty withered years. [ 182 ] Lamb says of the fair-haired dream-child at his knee, "the soul of the first Alice looked out at her eyes...re-presentment that I became in doubt which of them stood before me, or whose that bright hair was," to which Thompson adds: And suddenly 'twixt his hand and... | |
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