 She was none of your lukewarm gamesters, your half and half players, who have no objection to take a hand, if you want one to make up a rubber ; who affirm that they have no pleasure in winning; that they like to win one game, and lose another...  Modern English Prose - Página 429editado por - 1904 - 481 páginasVisualização completa - Sobre este livro
 | Anne Carroll Moore - 1926 - 304 páginas
...stories reflect her art. They are genuine. Created, not made up. Essays of Elia. By Charles Lamb. " 'A clear fire, a clean hearth, and the rigour of the...next to her devotions loved a good game of whist." Poems. By Alice Meynell. Of children and childhood Mrs. Meynell always wrote in prose but she saw all... | |
 | John Matthews Manly - 1926 - 928 páginas
...— I counsel thee, shut not thy heart, nor thy library, against STC MRS. BATTLE'S OPINIONS ON WHIST Battle8 (now with God), who, next to her devotions, loved a good game of whist. She was none of your... | |
 | Carl Henry Grabo - 1927 - 544 páginas
...insipid halfMadonaish chit of a lady in that very blue summer house." MRS. BATTLE'S OPINIONS ON WHIST "A CLEAR fire, a clean hearth,* and the rigour of...whist. She was none of your lukewarm gamesters, your half and half players, who have no objection to take a hand, if you want one to make up a rubber ;... | |
 | Charles Henry Woolbert - 1927 - 560 páginas
...IIIIIIIIIIII \ I. A clear fire, a clean hearth, and the rigour of the game. This / II IIIIIIII \\ IIII was the celebrated wish of old Sarah Battle (now with...devotions, loved a good game of whist. She was none / / / // V / / / / / \ / / / ///A/// //A IIII of your lukewarm gamesters, your half-and-half players,... | |
 | Charles Henry Woolbert - 1927 - 560 páginas
...very special interpretation of the meaning: From MRS. BATTLE ON WHIST CHARLES LAMB IIIIIIIIIIII \ I. A clear fire, a clean hearth, and the rigour of the...celebrated wish of old Sarah Battle (now with God) who, /////V/// / / \ III next to her devotions, loved a good game of whist. She was none ///A/// / / AIIII... | |
 | Charles Henry Woolbert - 1927 - 566 páginas
...very special interpretation of the meaning: From MRS. BATTLE ON WHIST CHARLES LAMB IIIIIIIIIIII \ I. A clear fire, a clean hearth, and the rigour of the game. This / IIIII I. IIII \\ IIII was the celebrated wish of old Sarah Battle (now with God) who, /////V/// /... | |
 | Elizabeth Avery, Jane Olive Dorsey, Vera Abigail Sickels - 1928 - 568 páginas
...that may have been sent for some good purpose — to be revealed hereafter. AW KINGLAKE, Eothen 12 "A clear fire, a clean hearth, and the rigour of the...God) who, next to her devotions, loved a good game at whist. She was none of your lukewarm gamesters, your half and half players, who have no objection... | |
 | Birmingham central literary assoc - 1879 - 456 páginas
...terminated our meetings ; it was not of a kind to have pleased good old Sarah Battle, who loved, " a clear fire, a clean hearth, and the rigour of the game. " We played what is best described as a friendly game. If one of us occasionally revoked, played out... | |
 | Helen Louise Cohen - 1927 - 402 páginas
...it.] MRS. BATTLE. Actions speak louder than words, Mr. Rickman. I hate a lukewarm gamester. Give me a clear fire, a clean hearth, and the rigour of the game. You do not play at cards, but only play at playing them. [The game proceeds in silence. CHARLES indicates... | |
 | Gerald Monsman - 1984 - 182 páginas
...mysterious, unanalyzable qualities that baffle, are purged, along with anything else that is not comprised in "'A clear fire, a clean hearth, and the rigour of the game'" (2: 32). Impersonal, utilitarian, ethical, she is literalminded about the imaginative-aesthetic world... | |
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