A horrid hole of a house, in an alley they call a court; stairs wretchedly narrow, even to the first-floor room: and into a den they led me, with broken walls, which had been papered, as I saw by a multitude of tacks, and some torn bits held on by the... Clarissa: A Novel - Pagina 339door Samuel Richardson - 1868Volledige weergave - Over dit boek
| 1784 - 746 pagina’s
...hole of a houfe, in an alley they call a court; (lairs wretchedly narrow, even to the fit ft floor rooms: and into a den they led me, with broken walls, which had been papered, as I faw by a multitude of tacks, and fome torn bit» held on by the nifty heads. The floor indeed was clean,... | |
| Samuel Richardson - 1811 - 452 pagina’s
...them, to look up at her. Oons, woman, said I, the lady may be in a fit : the lady may be dy'mg — let me go up. Show me the way. A horrid hole of a...call a court ; stairs wretchedly narrow, even to the first. floor rooms : and into a den they led me, with broken walls, which had been papered, as I saw... | |
| Samuel Richardson - 1820 - 440 pagina’s
...yet that her eyelids moved; though she either would not, or could not, open them, to look up at her. A horrid hole of a house, in an alley they call a court; stairs wretchedly narrow, even to the first floor room*: and into a den they led me, with The floor indeed was clean, but the ceiling was... | |
| Samuel Richardson - 1824 - 806 pagina’s
...I, the lady may be in a fit ; the lady may be dying — let me go up. Shew me the way. A horrid bole of a house, in an alley they call a court ; stairs...by the rusty heads. The floor indeed was clean, but die ceiling was smoked with variety of figures, and initials of names, that had been the woeful employment... | |
| Samuel Richardson - 1902 - 370 pagina’s
...his wife or maid should come near her. I said, I must see her. I had told him my business overnight, and I must see her. His wife went up: but returned...stairs wretchedly narrow, even to the first-floor room: and into a den they led me, with broken walls, which had been papered, as I saw by a multitude... | |
| Samuel Richardson - 1902 - 364 pagina’s
...them, to look up at her. Oons, woman, said I, the lady may be in a fit: the lady may be dying,—let me go up. Show me the way. A horrid hole of a house,...stairs wretchedly narrow, even to the first-floor room: and into a den they led me, with broken walls, which had been papered, as I saw by a multitude... | |
| Annette Brown Hopkins - 1915 - 824 pagina’s
...moved. Oons, woman, said I, the lady may be in a fit : the lady may be dying — let me go up. Shew me the way. A horrid hole of a house, in an alley...call a court ; stairs wretchedly narrow, even to the first floor rooms : and into a * Where Clarissa was imprisoned for debt. den they led me, with broken... | |
| Thomas O. Beebee - 2010 - 245 pagina’s
...rather than described. Belford's description reads like a passage out of a nineteenth<entury novel: A horrid hole of a house, in an alley they call a...tacks, and some torn bits held on by the rusty heads. . . . An old, tottering, worm-eaten table, that had more nails bestowed in mending it to make it stand,... | |
| Margaret Anne Doody - 1996 - 640 pagina’s
...Lovelace's friend Jack Belford, coming to bail her out, is appalled by the prison room he describes: A horrid hole of a house, in an Alley they call a...wretchedly narrow, even to the first-floor rooms; And imo a den they led me, with broken walls, which had been papered, as I saw by a multitude of tacks,... | |
| Samuel Richardson - 2006 - 450 pagina’s
...his wife or maid should come near her. I said, I must see her. I had told him my business over-night, and I must see her. His wife went up: but returned...tacks, and some torn bits held on by the rusty heads. A bed at one corner, with coarse curtains tacked up at the feet to the ceiling; because the curtain-rings... | |
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