 Body was willing to play with me. 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 a beating the Coffin, and calling Papa; for I know not how I had some slight idea that...  The Hibernian Magazine. ... - Page 201864Full view - About this book
 | Sir Richard Steele - 1897 - 298 pages
...HABEBO. VlRG. FROM MY OWN APARTMENT, Junes [777o]. The first sense of sorrow I ever knew was upon the 30 death of m y father, at which time I was not quite...with a real understanding why nobody was willing to £layjvith me. I remember I went into the room where his body lay, and my mother sat weeping alone... | |
 | Edmund Gosse - 1898 - 448 pages
...us that he lost his father at the age of five, and gives us this memorable sketch of his mother: " The first sense of sorrow I ever knew was upon the...meant, than possessed with a real understanding why nolxxly was willing to play with me. I remember I went into the room where his body lay, and my mother... | |
 | George Atherton Aitken - 1899 - 424 pages
...run over all the melancholy circumstances of this kind which have occurred to me in my whole life." The first sense of sorrow I ever knew was upon the death of my father,1 at which time I was not quite five years of age ; but was rather amazed at what all the house... | |
 | Robert McWilliam - 1900 - 644 pages
...parsonage in Wiltshire. Of Steele's father little is known except that he died when the boy was young. The first Sense of Sorrow I ever knew was upon the...meant, than possessed with a real Understanding why no Body was willing to play with me. I remember I went into the Room where his Body lay, and my Mother... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1900 - 410 pages
..." The first sense of sorrow I ever knew," Steele says in the Tatler, " was upon the death of my 10 father, at which time I was not quite five years of...amazed 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... | |
 | 1900 - 570 pages
...camels gra2ing upon the sides of it."— (Spectator, #i. 159.^ SIR RICHARD STEELE, b. 1675, d. 1729. The first sense of sorrow I ever knew was upon the death of ray father, at which time I was not quite five years of age; but was rather ama2ed at what all the... | |
 | R. McWilliam - 1900 - 834 pages
...was rather amazed at what all the House meant, than possessed with a real Understanding why no Body was willing to play with me. I remember I went into the Eoom where his Body lay, and my Mother sate weeping alone by it. I had my Battledore in my Hand, and... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1885 - 418 pages
...for the moment also his theme. " The first sense of sorrow I ever knew," Steele says in the Tatlcr, " was upon the death of my father, at which time I was...amazed 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... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1902 - 304 pages
...of the character of his father, and the following sentence (Tatter, No. 181) explains his silence: " The first sense of sorrow I ever knew was upon the...my father, at which time I was not quite five years old." A few lines further occurs the only reference to his mother, " a very beautiful woman of a noble... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1902 - 864 pages
...unfitting final glimpse of the kindliest sentimentalist in our literature. Love, Grief, and Death. h: To steal themselves from the degenerate lime I was nut quite five years of age ; but was rather amazed at what all the house meant, than possessed... | |
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