He did content himself mightily in my liking his boy's reading, and did bless God for him, the most like one of the old patriarchs that ever I saw in • my life, and it brought those thoughts of the old age of the world in my mind for two or three days... The Diary of Samuel Pepys - Page 518by Samuel Pepys - 1905 - 800 pagesFull view - About this book
| 1850 - 806 pages
...had been a servant in my cousin Pepys's house, and told me what was become of the old servants. He did content himself mightily in my liking his boy's...him, the most like one of the old patriarchs that erer I saw in my life, and it brought those thoughts of the old age of the world for two or three days... | |
| Samuel [collections] Pepys - 1854 - 500 pages
...K<h ot' vhx-h ptfew t »-»iWi4 «.«, sunuuotwvl to IVr&i*vr.: *s Rtrvo R-rfcfWT. tv'J paint, iti ti of the old patriarchs that ever I saw in my life,...for two or three days after. We took notice of his woolen knit stockings of two colours mixed, and of his shoes shod with iron, both at the toe and heels,... | |
| Samuel Pepys - 1899 - 200 pages
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| Samuel Pepys - 1867 - 516 pages
...had been a servant in my cozen Pepys's house, and told me what was become of their old servants. He did content himself mightily in my liking his boy's...for two or three days after. We took notice of his woolen knit stockings of two colours mixed, and of his shoes shod with iron, both at the toe and heels,... | |
| Francis Jacox - 1871 - 378 pages
...mighty pretty, and then I did give him something, and went to the father, and talked with him. . . . He did content himself mightily in my liking his boy's...the world in my mind for two or three days after." The loneliness of the shepherd boy's daily life is a material part of the interest associated with... | |
| Samuel Pepys - 1877 - 522 pages
...had been a servant in my cozen Pepys's house, and told me what was become of their old servants. He did content himself mightily in my liking his boy's...for two or three days after. We took notice of his woolen knit stockings of two colours mixed, and of his shoes shod with iron, both at the toe and heels,... | |
| William Makepeace Thackeray - 1881 - 820 pages
...mighty pretty ; and then I did give him something, and went to the father, and talked with him. He did content himself mightily in my liking his boy's...for two or three days after. We took notice of his woolen knit stockings of two colours mixed, and of his shoes shod with iron, both at the toe and heels,... | |
| Robert Louis Stevenson - 1882 - 492 pages
...mighty pretty ; and then I did give him something, and went to the father, and talked with him. He did content himself mightily in my liking his boy's...for two or three days after. We took notice of his woolen knit stockings of two colours mixed, and of his shoes shod with iron, both at the toe and heels,... | |
| Samuel Pepys - 1884 - 376 pages
...had been a servant in my cozen Pepys's house, and told me what was become of their old servants. He did content himself mightily in my liking his boy's...for two or three days after. We took notice of his woolen knit stockings of two colours mixed, and of his shoes shod with iron, both at the toe and heels,... | |
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