I know that a sweet child is the sweetest thing in nature, not even excepting the delicate creatures which bear them.


Elia: essays which have appeared under that signature in the London magazine (ed. 1828)


I know that a sweet child is the sweetest thing in nature, not even excepting the delicate creatures which bear them.

I know that a sweet child is the sweetest thing in nature, not even excepting the delicate creatures which bear them.

I know that a sweet child is the sweetest thing in nature, not even excepting the delicate creatures which bear them.

I know that a sweet child is the sweetest thing in nature, not even excepting the delicate creatures which bear them.