 | Elizabeth Haven Appleton - Cincinnati (Ohio) - 1891 - 282 pages
...painter: "As I know that you and I mutually desire to see one another, I hoped this day our wishes would have met and brought you hither; and this for the very reason which possibly might hinder your coming, that my poor mother is dead. I thank God her death... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - English literature - 1896 - 510 pages
...10, 1733. " As I know yon and I mutually desire to see one another, I hope that this day our wishes would have met, and brought you hither. And this for the very reason, which possibly might hinder yon coming, that my poor mother is dead. I thank God, her death... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - English literature - 1885 - 418 pages
...10, 1733. " As I know yon and I mutually desire to see on*> Another, I hoped that this day our wishes would have met, and brought you hither. And this for the very reason, which possibly might hinder you coming, that my poor mother is dead. I thank God her death... | |
 | Arthur St. John Adcock - Artists - 1912 - 412 pages
...sorrow : — " As I know you and I naturally desire to see one another, I hoped that this day our wishes would have met and brought you hither. And this for the very reason which possibly might hinder your coming, that my poor mother is dead. I thank God her death... | |
 | American essays - 1871 - 818 pages
...painter:— " As you know you and I mutually desire to see one another, I hoped that this day our wishes would have met, and brought you hither. And this for the very reason which possibly might hinder your coming, that my poor mother is dead. I thank God, her death... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - English literature - 2007 - 298 pages
...10, 1733. "As I know you and I mutually desire to see one another, I hope that this day our wishes would have met, and brought you hither. And this for the very reason, which possibly might hinder your coming, that my poor mother is dead. I thank God, her death... | |
 | American essays - 1871 - 856 pages
...painter: — "As you know you and I mutually desire to see one another, I hoped that this day our wishes would have met, and brought you hither. And this for the very reason which possibly might hinder your coming, that my poor mother is dead. I thank God, her death... | |
 | Women's periodicals, English - 1858 - 378 pages
...sorelyarHicted little man ! Remember too these words about his mother, written to Richardson the painter: "My poor mother is dead. I thank God her death was as easy as her life was innocent; and as it cost her not a groan, or even a sigh, there is yet on her... | |
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And this for the very reason which possibly might hinder your coming, that my poor mother is dead.* I thank God, her death was as easy, as her life was innocent; and as it cost her not a groan, or even a sigh, there is yet upon her countenance such an... 
