| John Charles Earle - 1871 - 504 страници
...He quoted the words, too, which Walpole used in talking with a friend at Houghton : " I wish that I took as much delight in reading as you do;• it would...the means of alleviating many tedious hours in my present retirement ; but, to my misfortune, I derive no pleasure from such pursuits." As far as Edmond... | |
| James Melville M'Culloch - 1882 - 442 страници
...portrait the confession of Sir Robert Walpole to Mr Fox in the library at Houghton, — " I wish I took as much delight in reading as you do : it would...the means of alleviating many tedious hours in my present retirement ; but, to my misfortune, I derive no pleasure from such pursuits." Compiled. THE... | |
| Maria Edgeworth - 1893 - 428 страници
...expressed his regret on this subject to Mr Fox, in the library at Houghton. " I wish," he said, " I took as much delight in reading as you do; it would...the means of alleviating many tedious hours in my present retirement. But, to my misfortune, I derive no pleasure from such pursuits." Lord Oldborough... | |
| Maria Edgeworth - 1893 - 514 страници
...subject to Mr. Fox, in the library at Houghton. " I wish," he said, " I took as much delight in rending as you do ; it would be the means of alleviating many tedious hours in my present retirement. But, to my misfortune, I derive no pleasure from sn.ch pursuits." Lord Oldborough... | |
| Archibald Philip Primrose Earl of Rosebery - 1899 - 370 страници
...a friend reading in his own library at Houghton he expressed this feeling. ".I wish," he said, " I took as much delight in reading as you do ; it would...the means of alleviating many tedious hours in my present retirement ; but, to my misfortune, I derive no pleasure from such pursuits." And again in... | |
| Archibald Philip Primrose Earl of Rosebery - 1899 - 384 страници
...a friend reading in his own library at Houghton he expressed this feeling. " I wish," he said, " I took as much delight in reading as you do ; it would...the means of alleviating many tedious hours in my present retirement ; but, to my misfortune, I derive no pleasure from such pursuits." And again in... | |
| Archibald Philip Primrose Earl of Rosebery - 1899 - 426 страници
...a friend reading in his own library at Houghton he expressed this feeling. " I wish," he said, " I took as much delight in reading as you do ; it would...the means of alleviating many tedious hours in my present retirement ; but, to my misfortune, I derive no pleasure from such pursuits." And again in... | |
| 1900 - 532 страници
...a friend reading in his own library at Houghton, he expressed this feeling : "I wish," he said, "I took as much delight in reading as you do. It would...the means of alleviating many tedious hours in my present retirement, but, to my misfortune, I derive no pleasure from such pursuits." And again, in... | |
| Thomas F. G. Coates - 1900 - 614 страници
...a friend reading in his own library at Haughton, he expressed this feeling. ' I wish,' he said, ' I took as much delight in reading as you do. It would...the means of alleviating many tedious hours in my retirement; but, to my misfortune, I derive no pleasure from such fortune. I derive no pleasure from... | |
| John Heneage Jesse - 1901 - 444 страници
...circumstances, give us reason to doubt. He one day remarked to a friend in the library at Houghton : " I wish I took as much delight in reading as you do ; it would be the means of alleviating many tedious hours, but, to my misfortune, I derive no pleasure from such pursuits." His son Horace also informs us that... | |
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