 | Authors, English - 1890 - 330 pages
...adds, " I walked down to Westminster Hall, and turned' into it for half an hour, because my eyes were so dimmed with joy and pride that they could not bear the street, and were not fit to be seen there." 10. The paper was the first of those delightful Sketches by Boz which were soon afterwards continued... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1890 - 522 pages
...! — I walked down to Westminster Hall, and turned into it for half an hour, because my eyes were so dimmed with joy and pride, that they could not...bear the street, and were not fit to be seen there. I told my visitor of the coincidence, which we both hailed as a good omen ; and so fell to business.... | |
 | Sarah Knowles Bolton - Authors, English - 1890 - 488 pages
...says, " I walked down to Westminster Hall, and turned into it for half an hour, because my eyes were so dimmed with joy and pride that they could not bear the street, and were not fit to be seen there." The boy of the Marshalsea prison and of the blacking-pots had finally found his place in the world's... | |
 | William Richard Hughes - England - 1891 - 480 pages
...occasion I walked down to Westminster Hall, and turned into it for half an hour, because my eyes were so dimmed with joy and pride, that they could not...bear the street, and were not fit to be seen there.' " The " dark court " referred to was no doubt Johnson's Court, as the printers of the Monthly Magazine,... | |
 | Walter Bagehot - English literature - 1891 - 470 pages
...! — I walked down to Westminster Hall, and turned into it for half an hour, because my eyes were so dimmed with joy and pride that they could not bear the street, and were not fit to be seen there. I told my visitor of the coincidence, which we both hailed as a good omen ; and so fell to business.... | |
 | Walter Bagehot - English literature - 1891 - 482 pages
...! — I walked down to Westminster Hall, and turned into it for half-an-hour, because my eyes were so dimmed with joy and pride, that they could not...bear the street, and were not fit to be seen there. I told my visitor of the coincidence, which we both hailed as a good omen ; and so fell to business.'... | |
 | Walter Bagehot - English literature - 1891 - 462 pages
...! — I walked down to Westminster Hall, and turned into it for half an hour, because my eyes were so dimmed with joy and pride that they could not bear the street, and were not fit to be seen there. I told my visitor of the coincidence, which we both hailed as a good omen; and so fell to business.... | |
 | Robert Langton - Novelists, English - 1891 - 298 pages
...Strand, and " walked down to Westminster Hall, and turned into it for half an hour, because his eyes were so dimmed with joy and pride, that they could not...bear the street, and were not fit to be seen there." On referring to these old volumes of the Monthly Magazine, I find the first Sketch, " A Dinner at Poplar... | |
 | Percy Fitzgerald - 1891 - 408 pages
...walked down to Westminster Hall, and turned into it for half-an-hour, because my eyes were so dimned with joy and pride, that they could not bear the street, and were not fit to be seen there. I told my visitor of the coincidence, which we both hailed as a good omen ; and so fell to business.... | |
 | Ainsworth Rand Spofford, Charles Gibbon - Literature - 1893 - 464 pages
...occasion I walked down to Westminster Hall, and turned into it for half an -hour, because my eye» wen so dimmed with joy and pride that they could not bear the street, and were not fit to be seen there. I told my visitor of the coincidence, which we both hailed as a good omen ; and so fell to business.... | |
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I walked down to Westminster Hall, and turned into it for half an hour, because my eyes were so dimmed with joy and pride that they could not bear the street, and were not fit to be seen there. 
