 | English essays - 1709 - 388 pages
...better Scholar than he : Betty., fays (he, deals chiefly in Fairies, and Uprights ; and fometiraes in a winter-night will terrify the maids with her accounts, .until they are afraid! to go up to bed. I fat with them until it was very late, fometimes in rr.erry, fometimes in ferious difcourfe,... | |
 | 1785 - 698 pages
...better fcholar than he 4 ' Beity,' f.iys Ihe, ' deals chiefly in fairies and fprights; ' and fometimes in a winter-night will ' terrify the maids with her accounts, * until they are afraid to go up to bed." I fat with them until it wns veiylate, fometimes in merry, fometimes in ferious difcourfe,... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1803 - 572 pages
...little girl who led me in t|iis morning was in her way a better scholar than he. Betty," says she, "deals chiefly in fairies and sprights; and sometimes...will terrify the maids with her accounts, until they arc afraid to go up to bed." I sat with them until it was very late, sometimes in merry, sometimes... | |
 | English essays - 1804 - 450 pages
...was in her way a better scholar than he. ' Betty,' says she, ' deals chiefly in fairies and sprites ; and sometimes in a winter-night will terrify the maids with her accounts, until they are afraid to go up to bed.' I sat with them until it was very late, sometimes in merry, sometimes in serious discourse,... | |
 | John Aikin - 1807 - 696 pages
...age." He goes on to say of the little boy's sister, " Betty deals chiefly in fairies and uprights; and sometimes in a winter-night will terrify the maids...additions made of late years to the juvenile library, nor how much better it is in general calculated to improve the mind. Perhaps, however, some modern writers... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1817 - 340 pages
...little girl who led me in this morning was in her way a better scholar than he. Betty," says she, " deals chiefly in fairies and sprights ; and sometimes...maids with her accounts, until they are afraid to go up to bed." I sat with them until it was very late, sometimes in merry, sometimes in serious discourse,... | |
 | James Ferguson - English essays - 1819 - 348 pages
...little girl who led me in this morning was in her way a better scholar than he. Betty," says she, " deals chiefly in fairies and sprights; and sometimes...maids with her accounts, until they are afraid to go up to bed." I sat with them until it was very late, sometimes in merry, sometimes in serious discourse,... | |
 | John Aikin - Literature, Modern - 1807 - 706 pages
...Bellianis of Greece, Guy of Warwick, the Seven Champions, and other historians of that age." He goes on to say of the little boy's sister, " Betty deals...additions made of late years to the juvenile library, nor how much better it is in general calculated to improve the mind.' Perhaps, however, some modern writers... | |
 | Lionel Thomas Berguer - English essays - 1823 - 332 pages
...morning was in her way a better scholar than he. Betty/isays she, ' deals chiefly in fairies and sprites; and sometimes in a winter-night will terrify the maids with her accounts, until they are afraid to go up to bed.' I sat with them until it was very late, sometimes in merry, sometimes in serious discourse,... | |
 | English essays - 1829 - 804 pages
...of our molt eminent antiquaries. /ing was in her way a better scholar than he. . Betty,' said she, ' deals chiefly in fairies and sprights ; and sometimes...maids with her accounts, until they are afraid to go up to bed.' I sat with them until it was very late, sometimes in merry, sometimes io serious discourse,... | |
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I sat with them until it was very late, sometimes in merry, sometimes in serious discourse, with this particular pleasure, which gives the only true relish to all conversation, a sense that every one of us liked each other. I went home, considering the... 
