 Half a dozen of them, when met to work with their needles, used, when they got a book they liked, and thought I should, to borrow me to read to them ; their mothers sometimes with them ; and both mothers and daughters used to be pleased with the observations...  The Eclectic review. vol. 1-New [8th] - Página 1241805Visualização completa - Sobre este livro
 | Henry Spackman Pancoast - 1907 - 718 páginas
...boyhood to old age an admiring circle of women. " As a bashful and not a forward boy, " he writes, " I was an early favourite with all the young women of taste and reading in the neighbourhood; " and long after he was described by Dr. Johnson as one who "took care to be always surrounded by women,... | |
 | 1909 - 672 páginas
...country." It is impossible to read the novelist's account of his early years, and of his relations with " all the young women of taste and reading in the neighbourhood," and associate the kind of life depicted with any part of London.* Again, Leigh Hunt, while accepting... | |
 | William Henry Hudson - 1915 - 272 páginas
...his work. This, too, is a point upon which he afterwards laid stress. "As a bashful, and not forward boy, I was an early favourite with all the young women of taste and reading in the neighbourhood. Half-a-dozen of them, when met to work with their needles, used, when they got a book they liked, and... | |
 | Marijke Rudnik-Smalbraak - 1983 - 296 páginas
...as if it were the most obvious, most logical consequence of boyish diffidence, that it had made him 'an early Favourite with all the young Women of Taste and Reading in the Neighbourhood ' : they would ' borrow ' him to read to them as they gathered to do their needlework, and 'both Mothers... | |
 | Hubert McDermott - 1992 - 164 páginas
...interesting still, are the following remarks by Richardson in a letter of 1753: "As a bashful and not forward Boy, I was an early Favourite with all the young Women...and thought I should, to borrow me to read to them." 48 It is obviously not inconceivable that Vertue Rewarded was one of the books Richardson was asked... | |
 | James Raven, Helen Small, Naomi Tadmor - 1996 - 336 páginas
...needlework. When describing his own upbringing, Richardson mentions similar sessions of reading and work: 'I was an early favourite with all the young women...reading in the neighbourhood. Half a dozen of them, when they met to work with their needles, used . . . to borrow me to read to them', Correspondence of Samuel... | |
 | James Raven, Helen Small, Naomi Tadmor - 2007 - 336 páginas
...needlework. When describing his own upbringing, Richardson mentions similar sessions of reading and work: 'I was an early favourite with all the young women of taste and reading in the neighbourhood. Halfa dozen of them, when they met to work with their needles, used . . . to borrow me to read to them',... | |
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