 Half a dozen of them, when met to work with their needles, used, when they got a book they liked, and thought I should, to borrow me to read to them ; their mothers sometimes with them ; and bolh mothers and daughters used to be pleased with the observations...  Samuel Richardson - Page 5by Austin Dobson - 1902 - 214 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1805 - 948 pages
...he was, he tells us, a general favourite with young and old. • As a bashful and not forward boy, I was an early favourite with all the young women...Half a dozen of them,, when met to work with their ^ PARTICULARS of the LIFE of SAMUEL their needles, used, when they got a hook they liked, and thought... | |
 | Samuel Richardson, Mrs. Barbauld (Anna Letitia) - Novelists, English - 1804 - 414 pages
...he was, he tells us, a general favourite with young and old. " As a bashful and not forward boy, T' I was an early favourite with all the *' young women...I should, to •" borrow me to read to them; their mo" thers sometimes with them ; and both " mothers and daughters used to be pleased " with the observations... | |
 | Samuel Richardson - 1804 - 416 pages
...he was, he tells us, a general favourite with young and old. " As a bashful and not forward boy, " I was an early favourite with all the " young women...thought I should, to " borrow me to read to them; their mo'* thers sometimes with them; and both " mothers and daughters used to be pleased " with the observations... | |
 | 1805 - 498 pages
...carried with them, I am bold to say, an useful moral." p, xxxvi. " As a bashful and not-forward boy, I was an early favourite with all the young women...to read to them, their mothers sometimes with them ; arid both mothers and daughters used to be pleased with the observations they put me upon making.... | |
 | Nathan Drake - Adventurer - 1810 - 524 pages
...unlimited confidence on the part of his fair friends. " As a bashful and not forward boy," he relates, " I was an early favourite with all the young women of taste and reading in the neighbourhood. Half-a-dozen of them, when met to •work with their needles, used, when they got a book they liked,... | |
 | Nathan Drake - Adventurer - 1810 - 528 pages
...unlimited confidence on the part of his fair friends. " As a bashful and not forward boy," he relates, " I was an early favourite with all the young women of taste and reading in the neighbourhood. Half-a-dozen of them, when met to work with their needles, used, when they got a book they liked, and... | |
 | Nathan Drake - English essays - 1810 - 532 pages
...unlimited confidence on the part of his fair friends. " As a bashful and not forward boy," he relates, " I was an early favourite with all the young women of taste and reading in the neighbourhood. Half-a-dozen of them, when met to work with their needles, used, when they got a book they liked, and... | |
 | John Nichols - Authors, English - 1812 - 754 pages
...prefixed to six volumes of his " Correspondence" in 1804, p. xxix. t "As a bashful and not-forward boy, I was an early favourite with all the young women...they liked, and thought I should, to borrow me to mid to them: their mothers sometimes with them ; and both mothers and daughters used to be pleased... | |
 | John Nichols - Authors, English - 1812 - 758 pages
..."Correspondence" in 1804, p. xxix.. t "As a bashful and not-forward boy, I was an early favourite vvith all the young women of taste and reading in the neighbourhood....used, when they got a book they liked, and thought 1 should, to borrow me to reiid to them : their mothers sometimes with them ; and both mot hers and... | |
 | Samuel Richardson - 1824 - 808 pages
...young and sentimental his reception was more gracious. " As a bashful and not forward boy,TI he says, " I was an early favourite with all the young women of taste and reading in the neighbourhood. Half-a-dozen of them, when met to work with their needles, used, when they got a book they liked, and... | |
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