 | Charles Dickens - 1894 - 546 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.... | |
 | R. McWilliam - English literature - 1897 - 176 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. Other sketches followed, both in this magazine and in the ' Evening Chronicle '; and in 1836 these... | |
 | Longman (Firm) - Readers - 1897 - 248 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." Other sketches followed, both in this magazine and' in the Evening Chronicle ; and in 1836 these scattered... | |
 | Walter Bagehot - English literature - 1902 - 440 pages
...itl — 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."... | |
 | Frederic George Kitton - Authors, English - 1902 - 578 pages
...print," he walked down to Westminster Hall, and turned into it for half-anhour, 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." In a letter to an intimate friend, informing him of his success, he said : " I am so dreadfully nervous... | |
 | Literature - 1902 - 916 pages
...and trembling" and when, not long after, he saw it in print in "The Monthly Magazine" his eyes "were so dimmed with joy and pride that they could not bear the street and were not fit to be seen there." It has been generally supposed that Defoe's account of the destruction of St. Vincent, which was published... | |
 | William Teignmouth Shore - Authors, English - 1904 - 124 pages
...print was a great day for the world and for him, who walked 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." For two years more Dickens remained in the "gallery," meanwhile continuing his literary adventures.... | |
 | Hendrik Poutsma - English language - 1926 - 912 pages
...Pride & Prej, Ch. VII, 35. ') De Drie Talen, XXXI, No. 12. -') ib., No. XXXII, No. 2. My eyes were so dimmed with joy and pride that they could not bear the street, and were not fit to be seen there. DICK, Pickw, Pref. It is fit to be placed on the cylinder of the printing press. Good Words. You're... | |
 | Joseph Charles Thomson - 1904 - 122 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'. Dickens' brief legal apprent1ceship, first as office-boy and then as junior clerk, was very distasteful... | |
 | Frederic George Kitton - Authors, English - 1905 - 376 pages
...pride were the eyes of the young author when he beheld his little effusion " in all the glory of print" that " they could not bear the street, and were not fit to be seen there." The " dark court " referred to was Johnson's Court, Fleet Street, the location of the office of the... | |
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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. 
