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 bought the magazine at a shop in the Strand, and the Sketches by Boz - Page xiby Charles Dickens - 1908 - 486 pagesFull view - About this book
| Charles Dickens - English literature - 1847 - 516 pages
...by-the-bye,—how well I recollect it !— I walked down to Westminster Hall, and turned into it for halfan-hour, because my eyes were so dimmed with joy and pride,...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.... | |
| John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1848 - 610 pages
...Fleet-st.—appeared in all the glory of print ; on which occasion, by-the-by—how well 1 recollect it !—I walked down to Westminster Hall, and turned into it...were so dimmed with joy and pride that they could lot bear the slreet, and were not fit to be seen there, [ told my visitor of the coincidence, which... | |
| Charles Dickens - 1850 - 508 pages
...by-the-bye,—how well I recollect it !— I walked down to Westminster Hall, and turned into it for halfnn-hour, because my eyes were so dimmed with joy and pride,...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.... | |
| American periodicals - 1851 - 604 pages
...bye—how well I recollect 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...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.... | |
| 1856 - 754 pages
...bye,—how well I recollect 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 ware not fittobeseenthere. Itoidmyvisitor of the coincidence, which we both hailed as a good omen,... | |
| Joseph Johnson - 1860 - 324 pages
...glory of print; on which occasion," he afterwards wrote, " By the by, how well I recollect it! —I walked down to Westminster Hall, and turned into it...bear the street, and were not fit to be seen there." After this entrance upon literature, a field upon which he was afterwards to be so distinguished, he... | |
| Bibliography, National - 1858 - 656 pages
...street—appeared in all the glory of print ; on which memorable occasion—how well I recollect it I—I walked down to Westminster Hall and turned into it...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.... | |
| Charles Dickens - 1868 - 612 pages
...of print ; on which 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,...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.... | |
| Early English newspapers - 1868 - 964 pages
...Street; and how on its appearance in print he turned for half-an-hour into Westminster Hall, because his eyes were so dimmed with joy and pride that they could...bear the street, and were not fit to be seen there. I wonder how many papers the author of “Pickwick” had dropped into other letter boxes, and how... | |
| English periodicals - 1868 - 900 pages
...; and how on its appearance in print he turned for half-an-hour into Westminster Hall, because his eyes were so dimmed with joy and pride that they could...bear the street, and were not fit to be seen there. I wonder how many papers the author of " Pickwick " had dropped into other letter boxes, and how did... | |
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