| John Camden Hotten - 1870 - 138 psl.
...shed innumerable tears before I served my apprenticeship to Life. * * * The idea propounded to me 22 was that the monthly something should be a vehicle for certain plates, to he executed by Mr. Seymour ; and there was a notion, either on the part of that admirable humorous... | |
| R. A. Hammond - 1871 - 450 psl.
...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-a-days... | |
| 1871 - 822 psl.
...walked down to Westminster Hall, and turned into it for half an hour, because my eyes wore so dimmed with joy and pride that they could not bear the street, and were not fit to be seen there." From that modest beginning came so soon a certain degree of fame, that the Sketches were still running... | |
| 1871 - 816 psl.
...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." From that modest beginning came so soon a certain degree of fame, that the Sketches wore still running... | |
| 1871 - 822 psl.
...turned into it for half an hour, because my eyes were so dimmed with joy and pride that they conld not bear the street, and were not fit to be seen there." From that modest beginning came so soon a certain degree of fame, that the Sketches were still running... | |
| John Forster - 1872 - 440 psl.
...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." He had purchased the magazine at a shop in the Strand; and exactly two years afterwards, in the younger... | |
| Francis Jacox - 1872 - 514 psl.
...Westminster Hall, he 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." A popular writer of his school, drawing apparently upon personal reminiscence, gives a rather elaborate... | |
| John Forster - 1872 - 442 psl.
...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." He had purchased the magazine at a shop in the Strand ; and exactly two years afterwards, in the younger... | |
| Gilbert Ashville Pierce, William Adolphus Wheeler - 1872 - 652 psl.
...two others by Mr. Browne. The author has given the following account of the origin of the work : " The idea propounded to me was, that the monthly something should be a vehiele for certain plates to be executed by Mr. Seymour; and there was a notion, either on the part... | |
| Charles Dickens - 1873 - 342 psl.
...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,...not fit to be seen there. I told my visitor of the coiucidence, which wo both hailed as a good omen ; and so fell to business. The idea propounded to... | |
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