 | Warner Taylor - 1923 - 524 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 difficulty, and denial meant in maidens—when suddenly, turning to Alice, the soul of the first Alice looked out at her eyes with... | |
 | Félix François Boillot - 1924 - 180 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 difficulty, and denial meant in maidens — 130 when suddenly turning to Alice, the soul of the first Alice looked out at her eyes with such... | |
 | William Joseph Long - 1925 - 844 pages
...sometimes in despair, yet persisting ever, I courted the fair Alice W n ; and, as 30 much as children could understand, I explained to them what coyness, and...became in doubt which of them stood there before me, or 35 whose that bright hair was ; and while I stood gazing, both the children gradually grew fainter... | |
 | George William McClelland - 1925 - 1178 pages
...sometimes in despair, yet persisting ever, 1 courted the fair Alice W n ; 1 and, as~much as children could v loufcM dutjatjer eyes with suili a lealily of re-presentment, that I became in doubt i which ofthem... | |
 | Sister Mary Madeleva - 1925 - 240 pages
...Lay, felt not, twenty withered years. [ 182 ] Lamb says of the fair-haired dream-child at his knee, "the soul of the first Alice looked out at her eyes...re-presentment that I became in doubt which of them stood before me, or whose that bright hair was," to which Thompson adds: And suddenly 'twixt his hand and... | |
 | Gerald Monsman - 1984 - 182 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...stood there before me, or whose that bright hair was" (2:103). The representational reality of his figment is so strong that he cannot tell the actual past... | |
 | Gerald Monsman - 1984 - 184 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...stood there before me, or whose that bright hair was" (2: 103). The representational reality of his figment is so strong that he cannot tell the actual past... | |
 | Edwin Almiron Greenlaw, William Harris Elson, Christine M. Keck - 1928 - 650 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...meant in maidens — when suddenly, turning to Alice, 40 the soul of the first Alice looked out at her eyes with such a reality of representment that I became... | |
 | James Anthony Froude, John Tulloch - 1867 - 864 pages
...sometimes in despair, yet persisting ever, I courted the fair Alice AV n ; and, as much as children could understand, I explained to them what coyness, and difficulty, and denial, meant in maidens. He speaks of a picture which he had seen as — that beauty with the cool blue pastoral drapery, and... | |
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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... 
