 It is wonderful to me how I could have been so easily cast away at such an age. It is wonderful to me, that, even after my descent into the poor little drudge I had been since we came to London, no one had compassion enough on me — a child of singular...  The Annual Register - Page 290edited by - 1872Full view - About this book
 | John Forster - 1842 - 450 pages
...been so easily ford-stairs. ' cast away at such an age. It is wonderful to me, that, c> D- *°J'even after my descent into the poor little drudge I had...'might have been, to place me at any common school. ' Our friends, I take it, were tired out. No one made any 'sign. My father and mother were quite satisfied.... | |
 | John Forster - Novelists, English - 1872 - 442 pages
...begin my business life. "It is wonderful to me how I could have been so easily cast away at such an age. It is wonderful to me that, even after my descent...might have been, to place me at any common school. Our friends, I take it, were tired out. No one made any sign. My father and mother were quite satisfied.... | |
 | John Forster - Authors, English - 1872 - 574 pages
...beg'n mX business life. "It is wonderful to me how I could have been "so easily cast away at such an age. It is won"derful to me, that, even after my descent...might have been, to place me at " any common school. Our friends, I take it, were "tired out. No one made any sign. My father "and mother were quite satisfied.... | |
 | John Forster - 1872 - 432 pages
...have been so easily ford-staTra. ' cast away at such an age. It is wonderful to me, that, c. D- ^"2' even after my descent into the poor little drudge...'might have been, to place me at any common school. ' Our friends, I take it, were tired out. No one made any ' sign. My father and mother were quite satisfied.... | |
 | English literature - 1872 - 692 pages
...relation : — " l It in wonderful to me how I could have been so easily cast away at such an ago. It is wonderful to me that, even after my descent into the poor little drudge I had been since wo came to London, no one had compassion enough on me — a child of singular abilities, quick, eager,... | |
 | John Forster - 1873 - 456 pages
...my business life. "It is wonderful to me how I could have been so easily cast away at such an age^l It is wonderful to me that, even after my descent...came to London, no one had compassion enough on me— Pa child of singular abilities, quick, eager, delicate, and soon hurt, bodily or mentally4-to suggest... | |
 | Charles H. Jones - 1882 - 276 pages
...is wonderful to me how I could have been so easily cast away at such an age. It is wonderful to mo that, even after my descent into the poor little drudge...might have been, to place me at any common school. Our friends, I take it, were tired out. No one made any sign. My father and mother were quite satisfled.... | |
 | Clara L. Matéaux - Adventure and adventurers - 1883 - 344 pages
...forgotten his existence. " It is wonderful to me how I could so easily have been cast away at such an age. It is wonderful to me that, even after my descent into the poor little drudge I had been ever since we came to London, no one had compassion enough on me — a child of singular abilities,... | |
 | Ability - 1887 - 216 pages
...It is clear he thought his father might have done better by him, for he writes about it thus : — " It is wonderful to me that, even after my descent into the poor little drudge I have been since we came to London, no one had compassion enough on me — a child of singular abilities,... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1888 - 870 pages
...me," he wrote when in the height of his fame, " how I could have been so easily cast away at such an age. It is wonderful to me that, even after my descent into the poor little drudge I had been since we camo to London, no one had compassion enough on me — a child -of singular abilities, quick, eager,... | |
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