 | 1822 - 496 pages
...religious and how good their great-grandmother Field was, how beloved and respected by every body. And then I told how, when she came to die, her funeral...religious woman ; so good indeed that she knew all the Psaltery by heart, ay, and a great part of the Testament besides. Here little Alice spread her hands.... | |
 | English literature - 1835 - 432 pages
...old tombs they had seen lately at the Abbey, and stick them up in Lady C.'s tawdry guilt drawingroom. Here John smiled, as much as to say, " that would...religious woman ; so good indeed that she knew all the Psaltery by heart, ay, and a great part of the Testament besides. Here little Alice spread her hands.... | |
 | 1835 - 430 pages
...old tombs they had seen lately at the Abbey, and stick them up in Lady C.'s tawdry guilt drawingroom. Here John smiled, as much as to say, " that would...religious woman; so good indeed that she knew all the Psaltery by heart, ay, and a great part of the Testament besides. Here little Alice spread her hands.... | |
 | Charles Lamb - Essays - 1835 - 440 pages
...old tombs they had lately seen at the Abbey, and stick them up in Lady C.'s tawdry gilt drawing-room. Here John smiled, as much as to say, " that would...religious woman ; so good indeed that she knew all the Psaltery by heart, ay, and a great part of the Testament besides. ' Here little Alice spread her hands.... | |
 | English fiction - 1835 - 356 pages
...old tombs they had seen lately at the abbey, and stick them up in Lady C.'s tawdry gilt drawing-room. Here John smiled, as much as to say, "That would be...all the poor, and some of the gentry, too, of the neighborhood, for many miles round, to show their respect for her memory, because she had been such... | |
 | Charles Lamb - English literature - 1836 - 362 pages
...old tombs they had seen lately at the Abbey, and stick them up in Lady C.'s tawdry gilt drawing-room. Here John smiled, as much as to say, " that would...religious woman ; so good indeed that she knew all the Psaltery by heart, ay, and a great part of the Testament besides. Here little Alice spread her hands.... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1840 - 304 pages
...old tombs they had seen lately at the Abbey, and stick them up in Lady C.'s tawdry gilt drawing-room. Here John smiled, as much as to say, " that would...religious woman ; so good indeed that she knew all the Psaltery by heart, ay, and a great part of the Testament besides. Here little Alice spread her hands.... | |
 | Ethan Allen Andrews - American prose literature - 1844 - 356 pages
...old tombs they had seen lately at the abbey, and stick them up in Lady C.'s tawdry gilt drawing-room. Here John smiled, as much as to say, " That would...all the poor, and some of the gentry, too, of the neighborhood, for many miles round, to show their respect for her memory, because she had been such... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 746 pages
...old tombs they had seen lately at the abbey, and stick them up in Lady C.'s tawdry gilt drawing-room. , her shades to rise, Vor trusts her blossoms to the churlish skies : Го draw manki ho\v, when she carne to die, her funeral was attended by a concourse of all the poor, and some of the... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1845 - 398 pages
...old tombs they had seen lately at the Abbey, and stick them up in Lady C.'s tawdry gilt drawing-room. Here John smiled, as much as to say, " that would...all the poor, and some of the gentry, too, of the neighborhood, for many miles round, to show their respect for her memory, because she had been such... | |
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... nearly pulled down, and all its old ornaments stripped and carried away to the owner's other house, where they were set up, and looked as awkward as if some one were to carry away the old tombs they had seen lately at the Abbey, and stick them up... 
