 She was tumbled early, by accident or design, into a spacious closet of good old English reading, without much selection or prohibition, and browsed at will upon that fair and wholesome pasturage. Had I twenty girls, they should be brought up exactly...  An Advanced English Grammar: With Exercises - Page 213by George Lyman Kittredge, Frank Edgar Farley - 1913 - 333 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Charles Lamb - 1905 - 352 pages
...she happily missed all that train of female garniture, which passeth by the name of accomplishments. She was tumbled early, by accident or design, into...browsed at will upon that fair and wholesome pasturage. 15 Had I twenty girls, they should be brought up exactly in this fashion. I know not whether their... | |
 | Samuel Hamilton - 1906 - 380 pages
...erratic, sister, who aided him so much in the preparation of the " Tales from Shakespeare," he says, " She was tumbled early, by accident or design, into a spacious closet of good old English reading, and browsed at will upon that fair and wholesome pasturage." " The flower of Athens 1 best culture... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1909 - 444 pages
...was tumbled early, by 30 accident or design, into a spacious closet of good old Englisji reading,0 without much selection or prohibition, and browsed at will upon that fair and wholesome pasturage. Had I twenty girls, they should be brought up exactly in this fashion. I know not whether their chance... | |
 | Edward Verrall Lucas - 1908 - 396 pages
...she happily missed all that train of female garniture which passeth by the name of accomplishments. She was tumbled early, by accident or design, into...browsed at will upon that fair and wholesome pasturage. Had I twenty girls, they should be brought up exactly in this fashion. I know not whether their chance... | |
 | Isabella Scott, Catherine Scott - 1908 - 502 pages
...advantage. They were of course added to by my father and mother. Charles Lamb says of Bridget Elia that "she was tumbled early, by accident or design, into...browsed at will upon that fair and wholesome pasturage. Had I twenty girls," he goes on, " they should be brought up exactly in this fashion. I know not whether... | |
 | Edward Verrall Lucas - 1908 - 402 pages
...she happily missed all that train of female garniture which passeth by the name of accomplishments. She was tumbled early, by accident or design, into...browsed at will upon that fair and wholesome pasturage. Had I twenty girls, they should be brought up exactly in this fashion. I know not whether their chance... | |
 | Foster Watson - 1908 - 106 pages
...poterunt lato discurrere campo, Et quascunque volent decerpere tutius herbas. Cf . Charles Lamb : " She was tumbled early, by accident or design, into...reading, without much selection or 'prohibition, and broused at will . upon that fair and wholesome pasturage. — Essays of Elia : Mackery End in Herts.... | |
 | Ellen Thompson - 1909 - 238 pages
...to; and she happily missed all that female garniture which passeth by the name of accomplishments. She was tumbled early, by accident or design, into...browsed at will upon that fair and wholesome pasturage. Had I twenty girls, they should be brought up exactly in this fashion. I know not whether their chances... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1909 - 366 pages
...she happily missed all that train of female garniture, which passeth by the name of accomplishments. She was tumbled early, by accident or design, into...good old English reading, without much selection or 1 It suited Lamb's taste for the older forms of style occasionally to use the older form of the verb.... | |
 | Ada Earland - 1910 - 404 pages
...which you had not the slightest thought would have been so." ' Bridget Elia, it will be remembered, " was tumbled early, by accident or design, into a spacious...browsed at will upon that fair and wholesome pasturage. Had I twenty girls," says wise, simple Charles Lamb, " they should 1 " Sesame and Lilies," be brought... | |
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