 | Frederick Saunders - 1859 - 444 pages
...it ! — 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.... | |
 | Joseph Johnson - 1860 - 324 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." After this entrance upon literature, a field upon which he was afterwards to be so distinguished, he... | |
 | Almanacs - 106 pages
...wrote, "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." Besides the literary reputation his numerous works have achieved for him, he has also won laurels as... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1864 - 458 pages
...Westminster Hall, and turned into it for half-an-hour, because my eyes were so dimmed.with joy and i, that they could not b'ear the street, and were not fit to be seen there. I told my visitor of the coincidence, which \ve both hailed as a good omen; and so fell to business.... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1866 - 438 pages
...it! — 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.... | |
 | Early English newspapers - 1868 - 964 pages
...on its appearance in print he turned for half-an-hour into Westminster Hall, 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. I wonder how many papers the author of " Pickwick " had dropped into other letter boxes, and how many... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1868 - 612 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. I told my visitor of the coincidence, which we both hailed as a good omen ; and so fell to business.... | |
 | Edward Peron Hingston - 1870 - 172 pages
...print, he "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." A statement has appeared in some of the American papers, to the effect that "Mrs. Partington " was... | |
 | Frederic Beecher Perkins - 1870 - 280 pages
...it!—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." This sketch was " Mr. Minns and his Cousin," and the magazine was the Monthly Magazine, now-adays often... | |
 | John Camden Hotten - 1870 - 206 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." A number of other papers were sent to the same magazine, and subsequently he contributed a similar... | |
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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. 
