 I can't say I am sorry I was never quite a schoolboy : an expedition against bargemen, or a match at cricket, may be very pretty things to recollect ; but thank my stars, I can remember things that are very near as pretty.  The Wits and Beaus of Society - Seite 3von Mrs. A. T. Thomson - 1890Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Horace Walpole (4th earl of Orford.) - 1837 - 462 Seiten
...carried me into old stories; I write of them with pleasure, but shall talk of them with more to you. I can't say I am sorry I was never quite a school-boy;...thumping and pummelling king Amulius's herdsmen, I was sometimes troubled with a rough creature or two from the plough ; one, that one should have thought,... | |
 | Horace Walpole - 1837 - 462 Seiten
...carried me into old stories; I write of them with pleasure, but shall talk of them with more to you. I can't say I am sorry I was never quite a school-boy; an expedition s1gainst bargemen, or a match at cricket, may be very pretty things to recollect; but, thank my stars,... | |
 | Horace Walpole - 1842 - 596 Seiten
...carried me into old stories ; I write of them with pleasure, but shall talk of them with more to you. I can't say I am sorry I was never quite a schoolboy...thumping and pummelling King Amulius's herdsmen. I was sometimes troubled with a rough creature or two from the plough ; one, that one should have thought,... | |
 | Horace Walpole - 1842 - 592 Seiten
...carried me into old stories ; I write of them with pleasure, but shall talk of them with more to you. I can't say I am sorry I was never quite a school,boy...thumping and pummelling King Amulius's herdsmen. I was sometimes troubled with a rough creature or two from the plough ; one, that one should have thought,... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1849 - 264 Seiten
...carried me into old stories; I write of them with pleasure, but shall talk of them with more to you. I can't say I am sorry I was never quite a schoolboy:...beginning of my Roman history was spent in the asylum, f or conversing in Egeria's hallowed grove; not in thumping and pummelling King Amulius's herdsmen.... | |
 | Robert Southey - 1850 - 918 Seiten
...much attention, and it is thought better to give these se\ernl Readings exaefly.— JWW Clelia." 7. " I can't say I am sorry I was never quite a schoolboy...can remember things that are very near as pretty." 10. Coventry's Philemon and Hydaspes praised as "really a pretty thing." 18. The French quite weary... | |
 | Eliot Warburton - 1851 - 574 Seiten
...billet doux." This is sufficiently characteristic, — the following more so ; he goes on to say — " I can't say I am sorry I was never quite a schoolboy...thumping and pummelling King Amulius's herdsmen."* Had we no other evidence, it would not be difficult to believe that Horace "Walpole was never a mere... | |
 | Eliot Warburton - 1851 - 582 Seiten
...billet doux." This is sufficiently characteristic, — the following more so ; he goes on to say — " I can't say I am sorry I was never quite a schoolboy...thumping and pummelling King Amulius's herdsmen.''* Had we no other evidence, it would not be difficult to believe that Horace Walpole was never a mere... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1852 - 470 Seiten
...carried me into old stories ; I write of them with pleasure, but shall talk of them with more to you. I can't say I am sorry I was never quite a schoolboy...thumping and pummelling King Amulius's herdsmen. I was sometimes troubled with a rough creature or two from the plough ; one that, one should have thought,... | |
 | 1852 - 460 Seiten
...carried me into old stories ; I write of them with pleasure, but shall talk of them with more to you. I can't say I am sorry I was never quite a schoolboy...beginning of my Roman history was spent in the asylum, f or conversing in Egeria's hallowed grove ; not in thumping and pummelling King Amulius's herdsmen.... | |
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