 | 1843 - 632 pages
...could not suppress an exclamation of surprise. * Why,' said the Queen, ' I don't ' pick them up myself. But I have a servant very clever ; and, ' if they...to be had at the booksellers, they are not for ' me more than for another.' Miss Burney describes this conversation as delightful ; and, indeed, we cannot... | |
 | Fanny Burney - 1842 - 460 pages
...stalls." " It is amazing to me,"1 said Mrs. Delany, " to hear that." " Why, I don't pick them up myself; but I have a servant very clever ; and if they are...booksellers', they are not for me any more than for another." She then spoke of Klopstock's " Messiah," saying it contained four lines most perfect on religion.... | |
 | Fanny Burney - 1842 - 444 pages
...stalls." " It is amazing to me," said Mrs. Delany, " to hear that." " Why, I don't pick them up myself; but I have a servant very clever ; and if they are...booksellers', they are not for me any more than for another." She then spoke of Klopstock's " Messiah," saying it contained four lines most perfect on religion.... | |
 | Fanny Burney - Great Britain - 1842 - 662 pages
...stalls." " It is amazing to me," said Mrs. Delany, " to hear that." " Why, I don't pick them up myself; but I have a servant very clever ; and if they are...booksellers', they are not for me any more than for another." She then spoke of Klopstock's "Messiah," saying it contained four lines most perfect on religion. "How... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Eliakim Littell - 1843 - 606 pages
...could not suppress an exclamation of surprise. " Why," said the Queen, " I don't pick them up myself, but I have a servant very clever ; and if they are...to be had at the booksellers', they are not for me more than for another." Miss Burney describes this conversation as delightful ; and, indeed, we cannot... | |
 | THE EDINBURGH REVIEW OR CRITICAL JOURNAL - 1843 - 672 pages
...not suppress an exclamation of surprise. ' Why,' said the Queeri, ' I don't ' pick them up myself. But I have a servant very clever ; and, ' if they...to be had at the booksellers, they are not for ' me more than for another.' Miss Burney describes this conversation as delightful; and, indeed, we cannot... | |
 | 1843 - 1266 pages
...could not suppress an exclamation of surprise. 'Why, said the Oueen, ' 1 don't pick them up mysell. 'But I have a servant very clever; and, if they •are not to be had at the booksellers, they arc 'not for me more than for another.' Miss Burney describes this conversation as delightful' and,... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - Great Britain - 1844 - 446 pages
...could not suppress an exclamation of surprise. " Why," said the Queen, " I don't pick them up myself. But I have a servant very clever; and, if they are...to be had at the booksellers, they are not for me more than for another." Miss Burney describes this conversation as delightful; and, indeed, we cannot... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English literature - 1850 - 332 pages
...could not suppress an exclamation of surprise. "Why," said the Queen, "I don't pick them up myself. But I have a servant very clever; and, if they are...to be had at the booksellers, they are not for me more than for another." MissBurney describes this conversation as delightful; and, indeed we cannot... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English literature - 1860 - 1088 pages
...could not suppress an exclamation of surprise, " Why," said the Queen, " I don't pick them up myself. But I have a servant very clever ; and, if they are...to be had at the booksellers, they are not for me more than for another." Miss B urn ey describes this conversation as delightful ; and, indeed we cannot... | |
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pick them up myself. But I have a servant very clever ; and, ' if they are not to be had at the booksellers, they are not for 
