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" Behn curiously sealed up, with " private and confidential " on the packet, to my gay old grand-aunt. The next time I saw her afterwards she gave me back Aphra, properly wrapped up, with nearly these words : — " Take back your bonny Mrs. Behn, and if... "
The Cornhill Magazine - Page 325
edited by - 1898
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Chambers's Edinburgh Journal

1844 - 858 pages
...scaled up, with " private and confidential" on the packet, to my g'iy old grand-aunt. The next time I saw her afterwards, she gave me back Aphra, properly...with nearly these words : Take back your bonny Mrs Helm, and, if you will take my advice, put her in the fire, for I found it impossible to get through...
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The Progress of the Nation: In Its Various Social and Economical Relations ...

George Richardson Porter - 1851 - 912 pages
...curiously sealed up, with 'private and confidential' on the packet, to my gay old grand-aunt. The next time I saw her afterwards she gave me back Aphra, properly...Behn, and if you will take my advice put her in the tire, for I found it impossible to get through the very first novel. But is it not,' she said, ' a...
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 98

William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1856 - 594 pages
...sealed up, with " private and confidential" on the packet, to my gay old grand-aunt. The next time I saw her afterwards she gave me back " Aphra," properly...with nearly these words: "Take back your bonny Mrs. Behu, and, if you will take my advice, put her in the fire, for I found it impossible to get through...
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 98

William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1856 - 596 pages
...confidential" on the packet, to my gay old grand-aunt. The next time I saw her afterwards she gave me hack " Aphra," properly wrapped up, with nearly these words: "Take back your bonny Mrs. Belm, and, if you will take my advice, put her in the fire, for I found it impossible to get through...
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Recreations of a Recluse, Volume 1

Francis Jacox - 1870 - 328 pages
...confidential" on the packet, to his gay old grand-aunt. The next time he saw her afterwards, she gave him back Aphra, properly wrapped up, with nearly these...through the very first novel. But is it not," she added, " a very odd thing that I, an old woman of eighty and upwards, sitting alone, feel myself ashamed...
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The Novels and Novelists of the Eighteenth Century: In Illustration of the ...

William Forsyth - 1871 - 366 pages
...'private and confidential' on the packet, to my gay old grand-aunt. The next time I saw her afterward she gave me back Aphra, properly wrapped up, with...you will take my advice, put her in the fire, for I find it impossible to get through the very first novel. But is it not,' she said, ' a very odd thing...
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The Novels and Novelists of the Eighteenth Century

William Forsyth - 1871 - 372 pages
...'private and confidential' on the packet, to my gay old grand-aunt. The next time I saw her afterward she gave me back Aphra, properly wrapped up, with...you will take my advice, put her in the fire, for I find it impossible to get through the very first novel. But is it not,' she said, ' a very odd thing...
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The Novels and Novelists of the Eighteenth Century, in Illustration of the ...

William Forsyth - 1871 - 352 pages
...private and confidential' on. the packet, to my gay old grand-aunt. The next time I saw her afterward she gave me back Aphra, properly wrapp'ed up, with...you will take my advice, put her in the fire, for I find it impossible to get through the very first novel. But is it not,' she said, ' a very odd thins;...
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The Novels and Novelists of the Eighteenth Century: In Illustration of the ...

William Forsyth - 1871 - 388 pages
...sealed up, with ' private and confidential' on the packet, to my gay old grand-aunt. The next time I saw her afterwards she gave me back Aphra, properly wrapped up, with nearly these words—'Take back your bonny Mrs. Behn, and, if you will take my advice, put * Vol. v. pp. 136-7....
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Miscellanies and Poems, Volume 0

Henry Fielding - 1872 - 248 pages
...curiously sealed up, with "private and confidential" on the packet, to my gay old grandaunt. The next time I saw her afterwards she gave me back Aphra, properly...you will take my advice, put her in the fire : for I find " it impossible to get through the very first novel. But is it not," she said, " a very odd thing...
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