 In conversation we found her delightful. She was full of anecdotes about remarkable people, and often spoke from her personal knowledge of them. Her memory, too, was stored with valuable information, and her manner of narrating was so animated that it...  Recollections of Seventy Years - Stranica 124napisao/la Mrs. John Farrar - 1866 - Broj stranica: 331Potpun prikaz - O ovoj knjizi
 | Mrs. John Farrar - 1866 - Broj stranica: 376
...full of his inventions and contrivances, and when shown to our bedroom, we found such an extraordnjary lock on the door, that we dared not shut it for fear...difficult to realize her age. In telling an anecdote of Mirabeau,'she stepped out before us, and extending her arm. spoke a sentence of his in the impassioned... | |
 | Grace Atkinson Oliver - 1882 - Broj stranica: 640
...whilst the gray hair showed through her cap behind. . . . " In conversation we found her dehghtful. She was full of anecdotes about remarkable people,...Mirabeau, she stepped out before us, and, extending her arms, spoke a sentence of his in the impassioned manner of a French orator, and did it so admirably... | |
 | Grace Atkinson Oliver - 1882 - Broj stranica: 610
...whilst the gray hair showed through her cap behind. . . . " In conversation we found her dehghtful. She was full of anecdotes about remarkable people,...Mirabeau, she stepped out before us, and, extending her arms, spoke a sentence of his in the impassioned manner of a French orator, and did it so admirably... | |
 | Grace Atkinson Oliver - 1882 - Broj stranica: 616
...conversation we found her dehghtful. She was full of anecdotes about remarkable people, and often •poke from her personal knowledge of them. Her memory, too,...Mirabeau, she stepped out before us, and, extending her arms, spoke a sentence of his in the impassioned manner of a French orator, and did it so admirably... | |
 | Helen Gray Cone, Jeannette Leonard Gilder - 1887 - Broj stranica: 332
...and Correspondence,' edited by Lord John Russell. London : Longman, Brown, Green & Longmans, 1854. In conversation we found her delightful. She was full...Mirabeau, she stepped out before us, and, extending her arms, spoke a sentence of his in the impassioned manner of a French orator, and did it so admirably... | |
 | Maria Edgeworth - 1894 - Broj stranica: 386
...hair ; she was now gray, but wore a dark frisette, whilst the gray hair showed through her cap behind. In conversation we found her delightful. She was full...Mirabeau, she stepped out before us, and, extending her arms, spoke a sentence of his in the impassioned manner of a French orator, and did it so admirably... | |
 | Maria Edgeworth - 1894 - Broj stranica: 410
...hair; she was now gray, but wore a dark frisette, whilst the gray hair showed through her cap behind. In conversation we found her delightful. She was full...narrating was so animated that it was difficult to realise her age. In telling an anecdote of Mirabeau, she stepped out before us, and, extending her... | |
 | Charles Wells Moulton - 1910 - Broj stranica: 850
...it very brilliant. — SMITH, SYDNEY, 1844? A Memoir of Rev. Sydney Smith, by Lady Holland, ch. xii. The fourth wife of Mr. Edgeworth was our hostess,...animated, that it was difficult to realize her age. — FARRAR, ELIZA WARE, 1866, Recollections of Seventy Years. 1 attended with much interest to the... | |
 | 1865 - Broj stranica: 834
...was the remains of a blonde, with light eyes and hair ; she was now gray, but wore a dark frisette, whilst the gray hair showed through her cap behind....it was difficult to realize her age. In telling an aneedote of Mirabeau, she stepped out before us, and, extending her arm, spoke a sentence of his in... | |
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