The Listener, Volume 1James Nisbet, 1830 - Education |
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Page 11
... gave any intimation that they had been previously employed . indeed , declared the weather made her so idle she had scarcely found strength to dress herself - ano- ther confessed he had passed an additional hour in bed , because the day ...
... gave any intimation that they had been previously employed . indeed , declared the weather made her so idle she had scarcely found strength to dress herself - ano- ther confessed he had passed an additional hour in bed , because the day ...
Page 16
... gave permission to the company to disperse , little more than twelve hours from the time of their as- sembling , to recover , as I supposed , during the other twelve , dressing and undressing included , the effect of their mental and ...
... gave permission to the company to disperse , little more than twelve hours from the time of their as- sembling , to recover , as I supposed , during the other twelve , dressing and undressing included , the effect of their mental and ...
Page 23
... gave a glow , a tone of warmth to the picture , strikingly opposed to the growing whiteness of the scene without . A number of young persons were in the room ; the plainness of their dress , their easy familiarity and small numbers ...
... gave a glow , a tone of warmth to the picture , strikingly opposed to the growing whiteness of the scene without . A number of young persons were in the room ; the plainness of their dress , their easy familiarity and small numbers ...
Page 32
... gave to it the last colouring of discomfort and disease . Within there sat a figure such as the pencil well might choose for the portrait of wretch- edness . Quite grey , and very old , and scarcely clothed , a woman was seen sitting by ...
... gave to it the last colouring of discomfort and disease . Within there sat a figure such as the pencil well might choose for the portrait of wretch- edness . Quite grey , and very old , and scarcely clothed , a woman was seen sitting by ...
Page 44
... gave heed to the slight inaccuracies into which she was betrayed by a lively imagination and a hurried mode of ex- pression - her mistakes excited mirth , and were not seldom repeated in her presence as proofs of wit or subjects of ...
... gave heed to the slight inaccuracies into which she was betrayed by a lively imagination and a hurried mode of ex- pression - her mistakes excited mirth , and were not seldom repeated in her presence as proofs of wit or subjects of ...
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