 | Harry Bache Smith - 1914 - 510 Seiten
...walked down to Westminster Hall, and turned into it for half an hour, because my eyes were so dimmed by joy and pride that they could not bear the street and were not fit to be seen there.' " "BENTINCK STREET, Tuesday morning [December, 1833]. MY DEAR KOLLE: I intend, with the gracious permission... | |
 | Walter Bagehot - 1915 - 414 Seiten
...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."... | |
 | Sherwin Cody - 1917 - 394 Seiten
...he, " 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." For two years he continued his work in the reporters' gallery, but regularly every month a sketch appeared... | |
 | Walter Dexter - 1923 - 280 Seiten
...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.... | |
 | George Gissing - 1924 - 186 Seiten
...which so delighted him that as he tells us, he walked for half an hour about Westminster Hall, his eyes "so dimmed with joy and pride that they could not...bear the street, and were not fit to be seen there" — fixed his mind in the right direction. Though the Old Monthly paid him nothing, he contributed... | |
 | William Tenney Brewster - 1925 - 424 Seiten
...! — 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."... | |
 | Arthur Quiller-Couch - 1925 - 260 Seiten
...down to Westminster Hall," he has recorded, "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." Now the paper which opened the fount of these boyish tears (here, if you will, is bathos) was entitled... | |
 | Gilbert Keith Chesterton, Frederic George Kitton - 1903 - 60 Seiten
...down to Westminster Hall, and turned into it for half an hour, because (he explains) his eyes "were so dimmed with joy and pride, that they could not...bear the street, and were not fit to be seen there." To this initial effort (which was published in the old Monthly Magazine, December, 1833) there is a... | |
 | Bertram Waldrom Matz - 1928 - 420 Seiten
...when it appeared print " he walked down 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." These sketches appeared fairly regularly throughout 1834, and for the first two months of 1835 ; they... | |
 | Ralph Straus - 1928 - 382 Seiten
...to Westminster Hall," Dickens tells us, "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." Well, Dickens was always partial to tears, but on this occasion they may be forgiven. Already, perhaps,... | |
| |
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. 
