 The first sense of sorrow I ever knew was upon the death of my father, at which time I was not quite five years of age; but was rather amazed at what all the house meant, than possessed with a real understanding why nobody was willing to play with me.  Harrison's British Classicks - Page 4421785Full view - About this book
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1872 - 660 pages
...at what all the house meant, than possessed of a real understanding, why nobody would play with us. I remember I went into the room where his body lay, and my mother sate weeping alone by it. I had my battledore in my hand, and fell a beating the coffin, and calling... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1872 - 786 pages
...the house meant, than possessed with a real understanding why nobody was willing to play with me. 1 remember I went into the room where his body lay, and my mother sat weeping alone by it. I had my battledore in my hand, and fell a beating the coffin, and calling... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele - 1874 - 810 pages
...age ; but was rather amazed at what all the house meant, than possessed with я real understanding why nobody was willing to play with me. I remember I went into the room where the body lay, and my mother sat weeping alone by it. I had my battledore in my hand, and fell a beating... | |
 | 1874 - 752 pages
...«mazed at what all the house meant, than possessed with a real understanding why nobotli/ was trilling to play with me. I remember, I went into the room where tlie body lay, and my mother sat weeping alone by it I had my baitledore in my hand, and fell a beating... | |
 | Cassell, ltd - 1875 - 452 pages
...of age ; but was rather amazed at what all the house meant than possessed with a real understanding why nobody was willing to play with me. I remember...went into the room where his body lay, and my mother sat weeping alone by it. I had my battledore in my hand, and fell a-beating the coffin, and calling... | |
 | William Lawson (F.R.G.S.) - 1875 - 272 pages
...at what all the house meant, than possessed of a real understanding why nobody would play with us. I remember I went into the room where his body lay, and my mother sat weeping alone by it, I had my battledore in my hand, and fell abeating the coffin, and calling... | |
 | Cassell, ltd - 1876 - 466 pages
...of age; but was rather amazed at what all the house meant, than possessed with a real understanding ! sat weeping alone by it. I had my battledore in my hand, and fell a-beating the coffin, and calling... | |
 | Henry Kingsley - Authors, English - 1876 - 344 pages
...of age ; but was rather amazed at what all the house meant, than possessed with a real understanding •why nobody was •willing to play with me. I remember I went into the room where the body lay, and my mother sat weeping alone by it. I had my battledore in my hand, and fell a beating... | |
 | John Dennis - English literature - 1876 - 466 pages
...began life unfortunately, for his father died before he was five years old. " I remember," he writes, "I went into the room where his body lay, and my mother sat weeping alone by it. I had my battledore in my hand, and fell a beating the coffin and calling... | |
 | Charles Lamb - English literature - 1876 - 740 pages
...being at the time a little creature under five years of age. "I remember," he writes in the Tatler, "I went into the room where his body lay, and my mother sate weeping alone by it. I had my battledore in my hand, and fell a beating the coffin, and calling... | |
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