 Her affection for her children makes her amiable to me. But I confess she ought, for the sake of her children, to conform to the strict ideas of the world. How strangely do we colour our own vices. I startle when you talk of keeping another man's wife....  Studies of a Biographer - Page 117by Leslie Stephen - 1899Full view - About this book
 | James Boswell - 1857 - 474 pages
...vices ! I startle when you talk of keeping another man's wife. Yet that was literally my scheme, though imagination represented it just as being fond of a...Edinburgh, and I very genteelly paid her expenses. You will see by my letter to her that I shall have a house and a servant-maid upon my hands. How she... | |
 | James Boswell - 1857 - 464 pages
...vices ! I startle when you talk of keeping another man's wife. Yet that was literally my scheme, though imagination represented it just as being fond of a...Edinburgh, and I very genteelly paid her expenses. You will see by my letter to her that I shall have a house and a servant-maid upon my hands. How she... | |
 | 1874 - 382 pages
...was literally my scheme, though imagination represented it just as being fond of a pretty, lovely, black little lady, who to oblige me stayed in Edinburgh, and I very genteelly paid her expenses." From several letters to Mr. Temple at subsequent dates, it appears that Boswell's discreditable amour... | |
 | James Boswell - 1908 - 398 pages
...vices ! I startle when you talk of keeping another man's wife. Yet that was literally my scheme, though imagination represented it just as being fond of a...Edinburgh, and I very genteelly paid her expenses. You will see by my letter to her that I shall have a house and a servant-maid upon my hands. How she... | |
 | George Mallory - 1912 - 364 pages
...Boswell is able to affirm, while he does not deny that she has a husband ; but though, as he says, ' imagination represented it just as being fond of a pretty, lively, black little lady.who, to oblige me, stayed in Edinburgh, and I very genteelly paid her expenses,' he was glad no... | |
 | Chauncey Brewster Tinker - 1922 - 320 pages
...to Temple] when you talk of keeping another man's wife. Yet that was literally my scheme, though my imagination represented it just as being fond of a...pretty, lively, black little lady, who, to oblige me, staid in Edinburgh, and I very genteely paid her expenses. You will see by my letter to her that I... | |
 | James Boswell - 1924 - 308 pages
...I startle when you talk of keeping another man's wife. Yet that was literally my scheme, though my imagination represented it just as being fond of a...pretty, lively, black little lady who, to oblige me, staid in Edinburgh and I very genteely paid her expenses/ You will see by my letter to her that I shall... | |
 | 1922 - 942 pages
...to Temple] when you talk of keeping another man's wife. Yet that was literally my scheme, though my imagination represented it just as being fond of a...pretty, lively, black little lady, who, to oblige me, staid in Edinburgh, and I very genteely paid her expenses. You will see by my letter to her that I... | |
 | 1922 - 1416 pages
...to Temple] when you talk of keeping another man's wife. Yet that was literally my scheme, though my imagination represented it just as being fond of a...pretty, lively, black little lady, who, to oblige me, staid in Edinburgh, and I very genteely paid her expenses. You will see by my letter to her that I... | |
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