 Don Quixote, Gil Bias, and Robinson Crusoe came out, a glorious host, to keep me company. They kept alive my fancy, and my hope of something beyond that place and time — they, and the Arabian Nights, and the Tales of the Genii — and did me no harm...  Blackwood's Magazine - Page 8451928Full view - About this book
 | William Martin - Children's literature - 1871 - 388 pages
...keep me company. They kept alive my fancy — they and the Arabian Nights and the Tales of the Genii did me no harm ; for whatever harm was in some of them was not there for me — / knew nothing of it. I have seen Tom Jones — a child's Tom Jones, a harmless creature — for... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1849 - 1160 pages
...something beyond that place and time, — they, and the Arabian Nights, and the Tales of the Genii, — and did me no harm ; for whatever harm was in, some of them was not there for me; / knew nothing of it. It is astonishing to me now, how I found time, in the midst of my porings and... | |
 | Charles Dickens - Boys - 1850 - 726 pages
...something beyond that place and time, — they, and the Arabian Nights, and the Tales of the Genii, — and did me no harm ; for whatever harm was in some of them was not there for me ; / knew nothing of it. It is astonishing to me now, how I found time, in the midst of my porings and... | |
 | Charles Dickens - Boys - 1850 - 736 pages
...something beyond that place and time,—they, and the Arabian Nights, and the Tales of the Genii,—and did me no harm; for whatever harm was in some of them was not there for me; / knew nothing of it. It is astonishing to me now, how I found time, in the midst of my porings and... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1863 - 510 pages
...something beyond that place and time,—they, and the Arabian Nights, and the Tales of the Genii,—and did me no harm; for whatever harm was in some of them was not there for me; I knew nothing of it. It is astonishing to me now, how I found time, in the midst of my porings and blunderings over heavier... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1867 - 570 pages
...beyond that place and time, — they, and the Arabian Nights, and the Tales of the Genii, — and djd me no harm ; for whatever harm was in some of them was not there for me ; / knew nothing of it. It is astonishing to me now, how I found time, in the midst of my porings and... | |
 | American literature - 1871 - 712 pages
...something beyond that place and time — they and the Arabian Nights and ihe Tales of the Genii — and did me no harm ; for whatever harm was in some of them was not there for me ;/ knew nothing of it." " I have been Tom Jones (a child's Torn Jones, a harmless creature) for a week... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1871 - 526 pages
...something beyond that place and time, — they, and the Arabian Nights, and the Tales of the Genii, — and did me no harm ; for whatever harm was in some of them was not there for me ; / knew nothing of it. It is astonishing to me now, how I found time, in the midst of my porings and... | |
 | John Forster - Novelists, English - 1872 - 440 pages
...something beyond that place and time, — they, and the Ar-abian Nights and the Tales of the Genii, — and did me no harm ; for whatever harm was in some of them was not there for me ; / knew nothing of it. It is astonishing to me now how I found time, in the midst of my porings and... | |
 | John Forster - Novelists, English - 1872 - 442 pages
...something beyond that place and time, — they, and the Arabian Nights and the Tales of the Genii, — and did me no harm ; for whatever harm was in some of them was not there for me ; / knew nothing of it. It is astonishing to me now how I found time, in the midst of my porings and... | |
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