 MARY LEADBEATER ! — Yes, indeed, I do well remember you ! Not Leadbeater then, but a pretty demure lass, standing a timid auditor while her own verses were read by a kind friend, but a keen judge. And I have in my memory your father's person and countenance,...  Journal of the County Kildare Archaeological Society - Page 416by County Kildare Archaeological Society - 1908Full view - About this book
 | George Crabbe - 1901 - 624 pages
...still flourishing." To Mrs. Leadbeata. " Trowbridge, lit of 12th month, 1ИК. "MART LEADDEATEB! — Yes, indeed, I do well remember you ! Not Leadbeater...verses were read by a kind friend, but a keen judge. And I have in my memory your father's person and countenance, and you may be sure that my vanity retained... | |
 | Alexander Meyrick Broadley, Walter Jerrold - Poets, English - 1913 - 416 pages
...to her first letter, Crabbe also recalled their meeting six-and-thirty years earlier, when she was " not Leadbeater then, but a pretty demure lass, standing...while her own verses were read by a kind friend, but keen judge, Edmund Burke." He went on with a warmth of friendliness that is of itself an indication... | |
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