| Eric Sutherland Robertson - 1883 - Страниц: 438
...no purpose ; eternally disappointed, and eternally fretted. The active scenes are over at my age ; 1 indulge, with all the art I can, my taste for reading....valuable men. I must be content with what I can find. As 1 approach a second childhood, I endeavour to enter into the pleasures of it. Your youngest son is,... | |
| Alexander Ireland - 1883 - Страниц: 320
...praise from others to no purpose ; eternally disappointing and eternally fretting. The active scenes are over at my age. I indulge, with all the art I can, my taste for reading. If I could confine it to valuable books, they are almost as rare as valuable men. I must be content with... | |
| Book-lover - 1883 - Страниц: 262
...praise frem others to no purpose; eternally disappointing and eternally fretting. The aetive seenes are over at my age. I indulge, with all the art I ean, my taste for reading. If I eould eonfine it to valuable books, they are almost as rare as valuable... | |
| Book-lover - 1884 - Страниц: 530
...praise from others to no purpose ; eternally disappointing and eternally fretting. The active scenes are over 'at my age. I indulge, with all the art I can, my taste for reading. If I could confine it to valuable books, they are almost as rare as valuable men. I must be content with... | |
| Alexander Ireland - 1884 - Страниц: 526
...praise from others to no purpose ; eternally disappointing and eternally fretting. The active scenes are over at my age. I indulge, with all the art I can, my taste for reading. If I could confine it to valuable books, they are almost as rare as valuable men. I must be content with... | |
| Donald Grant Mitchell - 1904 - Страниц: 376
...reading, with her ducks, her pigeons, and her garden. She writes her daughter : " The active scenes are over at my age ; I indulge, with all the art I can, my taste for reading. If I could confine it to valuable books ; they are almost as scarce as valuable men. . . . As I approach... | |
| Addison Peale Russell - 1890 - Страниц: 342
...and inoffensive in the consequence." At sixtyeight she wrote also to her daughter, "The active scenes are over at my age. I indulge, with all the art I...would confine it to valuable books, they are almost as scarce as valuable men. I must be content with what I can find. As I approach a second childof hood,... | |
| Lady Mary Wortley Montagu - 1892 - Страниц: 342
...praise from others, to no purpose; eternally disappointed, and eternally fretting. The active scenes are over at my age. I indulge, with all the art I...what I can find. As I approach a second childhood, I endeavour to enter into the pleasures of it. Your youngest son is, perhaps, at this very moment riding... | |
| Gertrude Townshend Mayer - 1894 - Страниц: 374
...easiest shade the ills of life, and are the least productive of ill consequences. . . . The active scenes are over at my age. I indulge, with all the art I...valuable books, they are almost as rare as valuable men. As I approach a second childhood 1 endeavour to enter into its pleasures. Your youngest son is perhaps... | |
| John Dennis - 1896 - Страниц: 276
...easiest shade the ills of life, and are the least productive of ill-consequences The active scenes are over at my age. I indulge with all the art I can...what I can find. As I approach a second childhood, I endeavour to enter into the pleasures of it. Your youngest son is perhaps at this very moment riding... | |
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