 I can't say I am sorry I was never quite a schoolboy : an expedition against bargemen, or a match at cricket, may be very pretty things to recollect ; but, thank my stars, I can remember things that are very near as pretty.  Pastimes and Players - Page 12by Robert Macgregor - 1881 - 203 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Horace Walpole (4th earl of Orford.) - 1837 - 462 pages
...pleasure, but shall talk of them with more to you. I can't say I am sorry I was never quite a school-boy; an expedition against bargemen, or a match at cricket,...can remember things that are very near as pretty. The beginning of my Roman history was spent in the asylum, or conversing in Egeria's hallowed grove:... | |
 | Horace Walpole - 1837 - 462 pages
...them with more to you. I can't say I am sorry I was never quite a school-boy; an expedition s1gainst bargemen, or a match at cricket, may be very pretty...can remember things that are very near as pretty. The beginning of my Roman history was spent in the asylum, or conversing in Egeria's hallowed grove:... | |
 | Horace Walpole - Authors, English - 1842 - 596 pages
...pleasure, but shall talk of them with more to you. I can't say I am sorry I was never quite a schoolboy : an expedition against bargemen, or a match at cricket,...can remember things that are very near as pretty. The beginning of my Roman history was spent in the asylum, or conversing in Egeria's hallowed grove;... | |
 | Horace Walpole - Authors, English - 1842 - 592 pages
...pleasure, but shall talk of them with more to you. I can't say I am sorry I was never quite a school,boy : an expedition against bargemen, or a match at cricket,...can remember things that are very near as pretty. The beginning of my Roman history was spent in the asylum, or conversing in Egeria's hallowed: grove... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1849 - 264 pages
...pleasure, but shall talk of them with more to you. I can't say I am sorry I was never quite a schoolboy: an expedition against bargemen, or a match at cricket,...can remember things that are very near as pretty. The beginning of my Roman history was spent in the asylum, f or conversing in Egeria's hallowed grove;... | |
 | Robert Southey - Anecdotes - 1850 - 866 pages
...88, &c. — J. ЛУ. W. 526 527 Clelia." 7. " I can't say I am sorry I was never quite a schoolboy ; an expedition against bargemen, or a match at cricket,...can remember things that are very near as pretty." 10. Coventry's Philemon and Hydaspes praised as "really a pretty thing." 18. The French quite weary... | |
 | Eliot Warburton - 1851 - 574 pages
...following more so ; he goes on to say — " I can't say I am sorry I was never quite a schoolboy ; an expedition against bargemen, or a match at cricket,...can remember things that are very near as pretty. The beginning of my Roman history was spent in the asylum, or conversing in Egeria's hallowed grove;... | |
 | Eliot Warburton - 1851 - 582 pages
...following more so ; he goes on to say — " I can't say I am sorry I was never quite a schoolboy ; an expedition against bargemen, or a match at cricket,...can remember things that are very near as pretty. The beginning of my Roman history was spent in the asylum, or conversing in Egeria's hallowed grove;... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - English literature - 1852 - 470 pages
...pleasure, but shall talk of them with more to you. I can't say I am sorry I was never quite a schoolboy : an expedition against bargemen, or a match at cricket,...can remember things that are very near as pretty. The beginning of my Roman history was spent in the asylum,! or conversing in Egeria's hallowed grove... | |
 | English literature - 1852 - 460 pages
...pleasure, but shall talk of them with more to you. I can't say I am sorry I was never quite a schoolboy : an expedition against bargemen, or a match at cricket,...can remember things that are very near as pretty. The beginning of my Roman history was spent in the asylum, f or conversing in Egeria's hallowed grove... | |
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