... grandfather are side by side, and I have thought it would be romantic for the heirs to join hands and make the two places one." " I can't see anything romantic in that, Grandmother Lumsden. It's like a sum in arithmetic. Arthur Arundel: A Tale of the English Revolution - 第222页作者:Horace Smith - 1844全本阅读 - 图书信息
| Julia (pseud.) - 1855 - 354 页
...please. In the first place, war has not come yet, and when it comes it will be time enough to talk of it. When you are as old as I am. and have seen as much of those universal rascals mankind as I have, in every clime, and under every flag, you will come to very... | |
| Henry Morford - 1863 - 502 页
...might be allowed to join the balance of the command — the veteran General's gruff: "Young man — when you are as old as I am, and have seen as many battles, you will think twice before you go into any fights that you can keep out of !" — and... | |
| Wilkie Collins - 1865 - 654 页
...fighting his own baltle under King James's banner; therefore is it that he has done his majesty the/apoar of evincing so much ardour and. alacrity in his service. When you are as ol." as I am, and have seen as much of kings and -jlers, you will better appreciate the motives ai.J... | |
| 1878 - 758 页
...was no dream. When I saw that carriage, and when I rode in it, I was as much awake as I am now ; and when you are as old as I am, and have seen as many wonders, you will be surprised at nothing, and will own that there are more things in heaven and... | |
| Robert Williams Buchanan - 1883 - 310 页
...relish. . ' ' Oh, if you knew it, this is the stuff to put warmth into you, life and warmth ! Ha, ha ! when you are as old as I am, and have seen as much of the world, you will worship St. Eau de Vie above all the saints in the calendar. But now, tell me of... | |
| William Kirkus - 1886 - 400 页
...which nothing but a very miracle of divine grace can save you, and that end is in famy and a jail. When you are as old as I am and have seen as much of the world, your memory will be haunted forever by wan faces, haggard with misery and despair, gazing... | |
| Joel Chandler Harris - 1902 - 474 页
...arithmetic." " Well, you must allow old people to indulge in their <*•— JT A&A dreams, my dear. When you are as old as I am, and have seen as much of life, you will have different ideas about romance." " I hope, ma'am, that your next dream will be truer,"... | |
| 1902 - 698 页
...It's like a sum in arithmetic." "Well, you must allow old people to indulge in their dreams, my dear. When you are as old as I am, and have seen as much of life, you will have different ideas about romance." "I hope, ma'm, that your next dream will be truer,"... | |
| Margaret Lizzie Knapp - 1909 - 390 页
...anyway. I don't say that a different bringing-up from the start might not have made some difference, but when you are as old as I am and have seen as much family history, you will agree that the forces that made them what they are began before they did.... | |
| 1921 - 156 页
...crude and untutored. You like the gross, lush beauty of youth — the beauty of a dahlia in full bloom. When you are as old as I am, and have seen as much of the world, and suffered and sorrowed as much, you will begin to realize that beauty is at its best... | |
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