 I suppose this is partly the effect of two years' ease, and partly of the absence of streets and numbers of figures. I can't express how much I want these. It seems as if they supplied something to my brain, which it cannot bear, when busy, to lose. For...  Dickens - Seite 25von William Teignmouth Shore - 1904 - 83 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Edmund Burke - 1873 - 696 Seiten
...of the absence of streets and numbers of figures. I can't express how much I want these. It seems as if they supplied something to my brain which it cannot...and labour of writing, day after day, without that magiclantern is immense! I don't say this at all in low spirits, for we are perfectly comfortable here,... | |
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...figures. I can't express how much I want them. It seems as if they supplied something to my brain. For a week or a fortnight I can write prodigiously...and a day in London sets me up again and starts me. My figures seem disposed to stagnate without crowds about them." But how good a guide he is in a topographical... | |
 | John Forster - 1873 - 616 Seiten
...of the absence of streets and numbers of figures. I can't express how much I want these. It seems as if they supplied something to my brain, which it cannot...that magic lantern, is IMMENSE ! ! I don't say this 24* at all in low spirits, for we are perfectly comfortable here, and I like the place very much indeed,... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1873 - 738 Seiten
...of the absence of streets and numbers of figures. I can't express how much I want these. It seems as if they supplied something to my brain which it cannot...and labour of writing, day after day, without that magiclantern is immense! I don't say this at all in low spirits, for we are perfectly comfortable here,... | |
 | 1873 - 572 Seiten
...can't express how I went there. It seems as if they supplied something to my brain which I cannot bear to lose. For a week or a fortnight I can write prodigiously...and labour of writing day after day, without that magic-lantern is IMMENSE ! . . . I only mention this as a curious fact, which I have never had an opportunity... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1873 - 688 Seiten
...can't express how much I want these. It seemi as if they supplied something to my brain which it caunot bear, when busy, to lose. For a week or a fortnight...Broadstairs), and a day in London sets me up again and start* me. But the toil and labour of writing, day after day, without that magiclantern is immense!... | |
 | William Lawson (F.R.G.S.) - 1875 - 272 Seiten
...about this " craving for the streets," after a prolonged absence from London, he says, " It seems as if they supplied something to my brain, which it cannot...after day, without that magic lantern, is immense ! " Dickens displayed considerable ability as an actor, and, indeed, when a young man, had some thoughts... | |
 | 1879 - 244 Seiten
...of the absence of streets and numbers of figures. I can't express how much I want these. It seems as if they supplied something to my brain which it cannot...after day, without that magic lantern, is immense.' The profits accruing to the author from his fresh publishing arrangements, with Dombey and Son, for... | |
 | George Walter Thornbury - 1880 - 678 Seiten
...I like, and I would come home, as you know." In the same spirit he wrote again, at a later date : " For a week or a fortnight I can write prodigiously in a retired place, as at Broadstairs ; and then a day in London sets me up again and starts me. But the toil and the labour of writing day after... | |
 | 1881 - 980 Seiten
...him, and he was always finally forced to go, for his intellectual food, back to his beloved streets. " For a week or a fortnight, I can write prodigiously in a retired place, as at Broadstairs ; and then a day in London sets me up again and starts me. But the toil and the labor of writing day after... | |
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