 | Jeannette Leonard Gilder - 1905 - 330 pages
...sometimes in despair, yet persisting ever, I courted the fair Alice W n; and, as much as children could understand, I explained to them what coyness, and...of them stood there before me, or whose that bright hajr was; and while I stood gazing, both the children gradually grew fainter to my view, receding,... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1905 - 352 pages
...sometimes 25 in despair, yet persisting ever, I courted the fair Alice W n ; and, as much as children could understand, I explained to them what coyness, and...at her eyes with such a reality of re-presentment, impressed upon me the effects of speech: " We are not of Alice, nor of thee, nor are we children at... | |
 | Ludwig Herrig - 1906 - 844 pages
...n; and, as much as children could understand, I explained to them what coyness, and difficulty, 220 and denial meant in maidens — when suddenly, turning...such a reality of re-presentment, that I became in 335 doubt which of them stood there before me, or whose that bright hair was; and while I stood gazing,... | |
 | Lawrence Gilman - 1907 - 396 pages
...sometimes in despair, yet persisting ever, I courted the fair Alice W n; and, as much as children could understand, I explained to them what coyness, and...before me, or whose that bright hair was. ..." And one recalls the sentence in "New Year's Eve": "Methinks it is better that I should have pined away... | |
 | Donald Grant Mitchell - 1907 - 364 pages
...sometimes in despair, yet persisting ever, I courted the fair Alice W ; and as much as children could understand, I explained to them what coyness, and...denial meant in maidens — when suddenly, turning to little Alice, the soul of the first Alice looked out at her eyes with such a reality of re-presentment... | |
 | Donald Grant Mitchell - 1907 - 378 pages
...sometimes in despair, yet persisting ever, I courted the fair Alice W ; and as much as children could understand, I explained to them what coyness, and...denial meant in maidens — when suddenly, turning to little Alice, the soul of the first Alice looked out at her eyes with such a reality of re-presentment... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1909 - 444 pages
...in despair, yet persisting ever, 1 courted the fair Alice W — n °; and, as much as children could understand, I explained to them what coyness, and...difficulty, and denial, meant in maidens — when suddenly 5 turning to Alice, the soul of the first Alice looked out at her eyes with such a reality of re-presentment,... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1908 - 364 pages
...sometimes in despair, yet persisting ever, I courted the fair Alice W n ; and, as much as children could understand, I explained to them what coyness, and...while I stood gazing, both the children gradually s grew fainter to my view, receding, and still receding till nothing at last but two mournful features... | |
 | Donald Grant Mitchell - 1908 - 382 pages
...them what coyness, and difficulty, and denial, meant in maidens — when suddenly, turning to little Alice, the soul of the first Alice looked out at her eyes with such a reality of re -presentment that I became in doubt which of them stood there before me, or whose that bright hair... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1909 - 366 pages
...much as children could understand, I explained to them 1This name, according to Lamb, was feigned. what coyness, and difficulty, and denial meant in...there before me, or whose that bright hair was ; and 5 while I stood gazing, both the children gradually grew fainter to my view, receding, and still receding... | |
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Then I told how for seven long years, in hope sometimes, sometimes in despair, yet persisting ever, I courted the fair Alice W n ; and, as much as children could understand, I explained to them what coyness, and difficulty, and denial meant in maidens... 
