 | Charles Lamb, Thomas Noon Talfourd - 1838 - 486 pages
...tombs they had seen lately at the Abbey, and stick them up in Lady C.'s tawdry guilt drawing room. Here John smiled, as much as to say, " That would...religious woman ; so good, indeed, that she knew all the Psalter by heart — ay, and a great part of the Testament besides. Here little Alice spread her hands.... | |
 | Story-teller - English fiction - 1843 - 324 pages
...carry away the 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,...religious woman ; so good, indeed, that she knew all the Psalter by heart ; ay, and a great part of the Testament besides. Here little Alice spread her hands.... | |
 | Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1844 - 738 pages
...carry away the old tombs they had seen lately at the abbey, and stick them up in Lady C.'s tawdry gilt tant! with thee I hail the time of flowers, And hear...sound of music sweet From birds among the bowers. The Psalter 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
...carry away the 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,...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
...carry away the old tombs they had seen lately at the abbey, and stick them up in Lady C.'s tawdry gilt germs to swell, 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
...carry away the 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,...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... | |
 | Gift books - 1849 - 342 pages
...funeral was attended by a concourse of all the poor, and some of the gentry, too, of the neighborhood, for many miles round, to show their respect for her...religious woman ; so good, indeed, that she knew all the Psalter by heart ; ay, and a great part of the Testament besides. Here little Alice spread her hands.... | |
 | Robert Chambers - English literature - 1851 - 764 pages
...carry away the old tombs they had seen lately at the abbey, and stick them up in Lady C.'s tawdry gilt d Psalter by heart, ay, and a great part of the Testament besides. Here little Alice spread her hands.... | |
 | Charles Lamb - Essays - 1851 - 396 pages
...carry away the 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,...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... | |
 | English literature - 1853 - 346 pages
...carry away the 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,...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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... came to decay, and was 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,... 
