I might easily do : as for herself, she said, her age and corpulency rendered all attempts of that sort impossible. However she would willingly meet death, if she could have the satisfaction of seeing that she was not the occasion of mine. But I absolutely... San Francisco's Great Disaster - Seite 408von Sydney Tyler - 1906 - 424 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| Pliny (the Younger.) - 1807 - 424 Seiten
...all attempts of that sort impossible ; however she would willingly meet death, if she could have the satisfaction of seeing that she was not the occasion...refused to leave her, and, taking her by the hand, I led her on; she complied with great reluctance, and not without many reproaches to herself for being... | |
| Pliny (the Younger.) - 1809 - 346 Seiten
...meet death, if she could have the satisfaction of seeing * An island near Naples, now called Capri, that she was not the occasion of mine. But I absolutely...refused to leave her, and, taking her by the hand, I led her on ; she complied with great reluctance, and not without many reproaches to herself for being... | |
| Elegant epistles - 1812 - 316 Seiten
...all attempts of that sort impossible: however, she would willingly meet death, if she could have the satisfaction of seeing that she was not the occasion...absolutely refused to leave her, and taking her by the hand I led her on : she complied with great reluctance, and not without many reproaches to herself for being... | |
| Edward Polehampton - 1815 - 592 Seiten
...all attempts of that sort impossible ; however, she would willingly meet death, if she could have the satisfaction of seeing that she was not the occasion...I absolutely refused to leave her, and taking her * An island near Naples, now called Capri. !.v the hand, I led her on ; she complied with great reluctance,... | |
| Edwin Atherstone - 1824 - 358 Seiten
...attempts of that sort impossible ; however, she should willingly meet death, if she could have the satisfaction of seeing that she was not the occasion...absolutely refused to leave her, and taking her by the hand I led her on; she complied with great reluctance, and not without many reproaches to herself for retarding... | |
| Picture gallery - 1824 - 234 Seiten
...not the cause of mine. But I resolutely refused to leave her, and taking her by the hand, led her on. She complied with great reluctance, and not without many reproaches to herself, for being the occasion of retarding my Sight. " ' The ashes now began to fall upon us, though in no great... | |
| 1830 - 570 Seiten
...attempts of that sort impossihle; however, she would willingly meet with death, if she could have the satisfaction of seeing that she was not the occasion...refused to leave her, and taking her by the hand, I led her on; she complied with great reluctance, and not without many reproaches to herself for retarding... | |
| the christians - 1836 - 426 Seiten
...all attempts of that sort impossible ; however, she would willingly meet death, if she could have the satisfaction of seeing that she was not the occasion...refused to leave her, and taking her by the hand, I led her on ; she complied \vith great reluctance, and not without many reproaches to herself for... | |
| William Clarke (architect.) - 1836 - 354 Seiten
...all attempts of that sort impossible. However she would willingly meet death, if she could have the satisfaction of seeing that she was not the occasion...refused to leave her, and taking her by the hand, I led her on : she complied with great reluctance, and not without many reproaches to herself for retarding... | |
| William Clarke (architect.) - 1836 - 358 Seiten
...all attempts of that sort impossible. However she would willingly meet death, if she could have the satisfaction of seeing that she was not the occasion...refused to leave her, and taking her by the hand, I led her on : she complied with great reluctance, and not without many reproaches to herself for retarding... | |
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