 | 1823 - 450 sivua
...quick at detecting these summer cloud« in Bridget " I wish the good old times would come again," shs said, " when we were not quite so rich. I do not mean,...poor ; but there was a middle state ;" — so she waa pleased to ramble on, — " ia »hi* I am sure we were a great deal happier. A purcbi» is bat... | |
 | 1823 - 732 sivua
...to over-shade the brows of my companion. I am quick at detecting these summer clouds in Bridget. " 1 wish the good old times would come again," she said,...happier. A purchase is but a purchase, now that you hare money enough and to spare. Formerly it used to be a triumph. When we coveted a cheap luxury (and,... | |
 | 1823 - 734 sivua
...to over-shade the brows of my companion. I am quick at detecting these summer clouds in Bridget. " I wish the good old times would come again," she said,...— so she was pleased to ramble on, — " in which 1 am sure we were a great deal happier. A purchase is but a purchase, now that you have money enough... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1828 - 266 sivua
...seemed to overshade the brows of my companion. I am quick at detecting these summer clouds in Bridget. " I wish the good old times would come again,'' she...mean, that I want to be poor; but there was a middle state;"—so she was pleased to ramble on,—''in which I am sure we were a great deal happier. A purchase... | |
 | 1835 - 430 sivua
...seemed to over-shade the brows of my companion. I am quick at detecting these summer clouds in Bridget. "I wish the good old times would come again," she...I do not mean, that I want to be poor ; but there wu a middle state ;" — so she was pleased to ramble on, — " in which I am sore we were a great... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1836 - 326 sivua
...seemed to overshade the brows of my companion. I am quick at detecting these summer clouds in Bridget. " I wish the good old times would come again," she said, " when we were not quite so rich. 1 do not mean, that I want to be poor ; but there was a middle state " — so she was pleased to ramble... | |
 | Charles Lamb, Sir Thomas Noon Talfourd - 1851 - 964 sivua
...seemed to overshade the brows of my companion. I am quick at detecting these summer clouds in Bridget. " I wish the good old times would come again," she said,...pleased to ramble on — " in which I am sure we were a groat deal happier. A purchase is but a purchase, now that you have money enough and to spare. Formerly... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1856 - 408 sivua
...to overshade the brows of my companion. I am quick at detecting these summer clouds in Bridget. <; I wish the good old times would come again," she said,...— so she was pleased to ramble on — " in which I arn sure we were a great deal happier. A purchase is but a purchase, now that you have money enough... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1857 - 380 sivua
...seemed to overshade the brows of my companion. I am quick at detecting these summer clouds in Bridget. " I wish the good old times would come again," she said,...quite so rich. I do not mean, that I want to be poor y but there was a middle state " — so she was pleased to ramble on, — <fc in which I am sure we... | |
 | Francis Wharton - 1859 - 410 sivua
...developed this thought with great beauty in the following passage from his letter on " Broken China" :—" I wish the good old times would come again," she said,...purchase is but a purchase, now that you have money To these considerations it may be added, that human pleasure, so far from increasing, rather diminishes... | |
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I wish the good old times would come again," she said, 'when we were not quite so rich. I do not mean that I want to be poor; but there was a middle state' - so she was pleased to ramble on - 'in which I am sure we were a great deal happier. 
