 | Phebe Ann Hanaford - Novelists, English - 1871 - 424 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."... | |
 | Dover coll - 1883 - 326 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." This was his first success. For two years he continued contributing papers to this and to other publications,... | |
 | Walter Bagehot - English literature - 1879 - 488 pages
...! — I walked down to Westminster Hall, and turned into it for half-an-hotir, because my eyes were so dimmed with joy and pride, that they could not bear the street, and were not tit to be seen there. I told my visitor of the coincidence, which we both hailed as a good omen ; and... | |
 | Wilfrid Meynell - Journalism - 1880 - 162 pages
...print, 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." — Charles Dickens. JOURNALS AND JOURNALISM. LITERARY AMATEURS. MATEURITY generally means immaturity.... | |
 | Edward Peron Hingston - 1881 - 538 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 n't to be seen there/' A statement has appeared in some of the American papers, to the effect that... | |
 | William S. Walsh - Authorship - 1882 - 278 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." Through a veil of rather Dickensy exaggeration, Mr. Albert Smith, in one of his fictions, evidently... | |
 | William S. Walsh - Authorship - 1882 - 280 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." Through a veil of rather Dickensy exaggeration, Mr. Albert Smith, in one of his fictions, evidently... | |
 | Charles H. Jones - 1882 - 276 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." Following this first paper, nine others appeared in the same magazine, the last in the number for February,... | |
 | Alfred Hix Welsh - English language - 1882 - 1108 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.' Other sketches followed, signed 'Boz'; and in 1836 these were collected into two volumes, — his first... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1883 - 904 pages
...! — I walked down to Westminster Hall, and turned into it for haif-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 ttb 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. 
