 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
 | Frederick Samuel Ashley-Cooper - Cricket - 1922 - 180 pages
...King's College, Cambridge, on 6th May 1736 : " 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 tilings to recollect, but, thank my stars, I can remember things that are very near as pretty." s A... | |
 | Sports - 1893 - 490 pages
...the pastime. " I can't say," he says (May 6th, 1786), " 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." Again, in June, 1749, he writes : "I could tell you of Lord Montford's making cricket matches, and... | |
 | Horace Walpole - Authors, English - 1926 - 338 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,...very pretty things to recollect} but, thank my stars ^-•Q'tr*- , £~-^~~~ ^ jEsaaf *>. wi WALPOLE'S BOOKPLATE IN A Copy OF HORACE stars, I can remember... | |
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 | Horace Walpole - 1951 - 308 pages
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