 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1858 - 492 страници
...Dublin, not quite five years of age. " That was the first sensation of grief," Dick said, " I ever knew. I remember I went into the room where his body lay, and my mother sate weeping beside it. I had my battledore iii my hand, and fell a-beating the coffin, and calling... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1859 - 780 страници
...was rather amazed at what all the house meant, than possessed with a real understanding why nobody was willing to play with me. I remember I went into the room where his body lay, and my mother sat weeping alone by it. I had my battledore in my hand, and fell a beating the coflin, and calling... | |
 | George Augustus Sala, Edmund Yates - 1874 - 588 страници
...amazed at what all the house meant, than possessed with a re.il understanding why nobody was \mlling to play with me. I remember I went into the room where the body lay, and my mother sat weeping alone by it. I had my battledore in my hand, and fell a beating... | |
 | Sir Richard Steele, Joseph Addison - 1861 - 368 страници
...but was rather amazed at what all the houfe meant than poffefTed with a real underftanding why nobody was willing to play with me. I remember I went into...lay, and my mother fat weeping alone by it. I had my battledore in my hand, and fell a beating the coffin, and calling papa ! for, I know not how, I had... | |
 | 1861 - 100 страници
...of his own first sensation of grief in the very words of that immortal paper in the Spectator — ' I remember I went ' into the room where his body lay, and my mother sate ' weeping beside it. 1 had my battledore in my hand and * fell a beating the coffin, and calling... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1863 - 788 страници
...was rather amazed at what all the house meant, than possessed •with a real understanding why nobody was willing to play with me. I remember I went into the room where his body lay, and my mother sat weeping alone by it. I had my battledore in my hand, and fell a beating the coffin, and calling... | |
 | 1864 - 496 страници
...was rather amazed at what all the house meant, than possessed with a real understanding why nobody was willing to play with me. I remember, I went into the room where his body lay, and my mother sat weeping alone by it. I had my battledoor in my hand, and fell a beating the coffin and calling... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1909 - 882 страници
...Dublin, not quite five years of age. ' That was the first sensation of grief,' Dick said, ' I ever knew. I remember I went into the room where his body lay, and my mother sat weeping beside it. I had my battledore in my hand, and fell a-beating the coffin, and calling papa... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1865 - 784 страници
...was rather amazed at what all the house meant, than possessed with a real understanding why nobody was willing to play with me. I remember I went into the room where his body lay, and my mother sat weeping alone by it. I had my battledore in my hand, and fell a beating the coffin, and calling... | |
 | Howard Staunton - 1865 - 622 страници
...account he gives of his being taken, when quite a child, into the room where his dead father lay — "I remember I went into the room where his body lay, and my mother sat weeping alone by it. I had my battledore in my hand, and fell a-beating the coffin, and calling... | |
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The first sense of sorrow I ever knew was upon the death of my father, at which time I was not quite five years of age ; but was rather amazed at what all the house meant, than possessed with a real understanding why nobody was willing to play with me. 
