| Elizabeth Fries Ellet - United States - 1848 - 362 pages
...by Colonel Hamilton, in a letter written the next day : " The General," he says, "went to see her; she upbraided him with being in a plot to murder her child, raved, shed * See Sparks' Life of Arnold. tears, and lamented the fate of the infant. * * All the sweetness... | |
| Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - American fiction - 1849 - 544 pages
...by Colonel Hamilton, in a letter written the next day : ' The General,' he says, ' went to see her ; she upbraided him with being in a plot to murder her child, raved, shed tears, and lamented the fate of the infant All {he sweetness of beauty, all the loveliness... | |
| American literature - 1852 - 636 pages
...ever witness to. She, for a considerable time, entirely lost herself- Tho general went up to Becher, and she upbraided him with being in a plot to murder...melted into tears. Sometimes she pressed her infant ioher bosom, and lamented its fate, occa- | sioncd by the imprudence of its father, in a manner ¡... | |
| Benson John Lossing - United States - 1852 - 948 pages
...herself. The general went up to see her. She upbraided him with being in a plolto-murdor hef_ghild. One moment she raved ; another, she melted into tears....to her bosom, and lamented its fate, occasioned by tho imprudence of its father, in a manner that would have pierced insensibility itself. All the sweetness... | |
| 534 pages
...severely tried by the afflicting situation of Mrs Arnold. She seemed on the ver're of distraction ; one moment she raved, another she melted into tears. Sometimes she pressed her infant to her bosom, nnd lamented its fate, occasioned by the imprudence of its father. It was a curious circumstance in... | |
| Abel Stevens, James Floy - American essays - 1853 - 588 pages
...Hamilton, in a vivid description of the scene, *' entirely lost herself. The general went up to see her. She upbraided him with being in a plot to murder her...she pressed her infant to her bosom, and lamented it» fate, occasioned by the imprudence of it» father, in a manner that would have pierced insensibility... | |
| Caroline Matilda Kirkland - American literature - 1854 - 340 pages
...sympathy'by Colonel Hamilton, in a letter written the next day: 'The General,' he says, ' went to see her ; she upbraided him with being in a plot to murder her child, raved, shed tears, and lamented the fate of the infant All the sweeiness of beauty, all the loveliness... | |
| 1854 - 602 pages
...by Col. Hamilton, in a letter written the next day :—" The general," he says, " went to see her; she upbraided him with being in a plot to murder her child; raved and shed tears, and lamented the fate of the infant. * * * All the sweetness of beauty— all... | |
| Thomas Balch - Family & Relationships - 1855 - 464 pages
...ever ' was witness to. She, for a considerable time, entirely lost herself. ' The General (Washington) went up to see her, and she upbraided ' him with being...her bosom, and lamented its fate, occasioned by the ini' prudence of its father, in a manner that would have pierced insen' sibility itself. All the sweetness... | |
| Washington Irving - 1857 - 1194 pages
...picture of Washington's first interview with her. " She for a time entirely lost herself. The general went up to see her, and she upbraided him with being...her bosom, and lamented its fate occasioned by the impm* • * Memoirs of Lafayette, vol. ip 264. dence of its father, in a manner that would have pierced... | |
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