 | 1848 - 594 էջ
...picked up no recent anecdotes on our common, I have made a much more, to me, precious acquaintance. It is the acquaintance of two young ladies of the...a house here, with their father, for this season.' * • * * * ' They are exceedingly sensible, entirely natural and unaffected, frank, and, being qualified... | |
 | 1848 - 594 էջ
...indissolubly associated with his own. He thus describes the commencement of the acquaintance: — ' If I have picked up no recent anecdotes on our common, I have made a much more, to me, precious acquaintance. It is the acquaintance of two young ladies of the name of Berry, whom I first saw last... | |
 | 1849 - 638 էջ
...indiesolubly associated with his own. He thus describes the commencement of the acquaintance : — If I have picked up no recent anecdotes on our common, I have made a much more, to me, precious acquaintance. It is the acquaintance of two young ladies of the name of Berry, whom I first saw last... | |
 | Horace Walpole (4th earl of Orford.) - 1859 - 722 էջ
...the antiquarian." There, Madam, surely this anecdote may take its place in the chapter of local fame. If I have picked up no recent anecdotes on our Common,...the acquaintance of two young ladies of the name of Berry,1 whom I first 1 Mary Berry, born March, 1763, died November, 1852, and Agnes Berry, born May,... | |
 | Horace Walpole - 1861 - 696 էջ
...the antiquarian." There, Madam, surely this anecdote may take its place in the chapter of local fame. If I have picked up no recent anecdotes on our Common,...the acquaintance of two young ladies of the name of Berry,1 whom I first 1 Mary Berry, born March, 1763, died November, 1852, and Agnes Berry, born May,... | |
 | 1849 - 636 էջ
...and indissolubly associated with his own. He thus describes the commencement of the acquaintance: — If I have picked up no recent anecdotes on our common, I have made a much more, to me, precious acquaintance. It is the acquaintance of two young ladies of the name of Berry, whom I first saw last... | |
 | Horace Walpole - 1866 - 698 էջ
...the antiquarian." There, Madam, surely this anecdote may take its place in the chapter of local fame. If I have picked up no recent anecdotes on our Common,...the acquaintance of two young ladies of the name of Berry,1 whom I first saw last winter, and who accidentally took a house here with their father for... | |
 | 1866 - 532 էջ
...describes them to Lady Ossory : — 'If I have picked up uo recent anecdotes on our common (writes he), I have made a much more, to me, precious acquisition....acquaintance of two young ladies of the name of Berry, whom 1 first saw last winter, and who accidentally took a house here with their father for the season, &c.... | |
 | Richard Crisp - 1866 - 478 էջ
...to Lady Ossory, referring to his first meeting with these ladies, he writes, October llth, 1788:— "If I have picked up no recent anecdotes on our common, I have made a much more to me precious acquaintance — it is the acquaintance of two young ladies of the name of Berry, whom I saw last winter,... | |
 | Abby Sage Richardson - 1882 - 348 էջ
...dreary without them. He writes to one of his correspondents shortly after meeting them : " I have made a to me precious acquisition. It is the acquaintance...name of Berry, whom I first saw last winter, and who have taken a house here with their father for the summer." They finally settled on a small estate of... | |
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There, Madam, surely this anecdote may take its place in the chapter of local fame. If I have picked up no recent anecdotes on our Common, I have made a much more, to me, precious acquisition. It is the acquaintance of two young ladies of the name of... 
