 | John Forster - 1842 - 450 pàgines
...own venerable lips, re- lyie's ' peated to me, the other night, a strange profane story : of g^y. ' a solemn clergyman who had been administering ghostly...sick person ; having finished, satisfactorily ' as be thought, and got out of the room, he heard the ' sick person ejaculate : " Well, thank God, Pickwick... | |
 | George Augustus Sala, Edmund Yates - 1887 - 628 pàgines
...were quitting it, alike found it to be irresistible." Thomas Carlyle told Mr. Forster the anecdote of a solemn clergyman who had been administering ghostly consolation to a sick person, and who, as he left the room, heard the sick person ejaculate, " Well, thank God, 'Pickwick' will be... | |
 | John Forster - 1872 - 440 pàgines
...quitting it, alike found it to be irresistible. "An archdeacon," wrote Mr. Carlyle afterwards to me, "with his own venerable lips, repeated to me, the...be out in ten days any way!' — This is dreadful." Let me add that there was something more in it all than the gratification of mere fun and laughter,... | |
 | John Forster - 1872 - 442 pàgines
...quitting it, alike found it to be irresistible. "An archdeacon," wrote Mr. Carlyle afterwards to me, "with his own venerable lips, repeated to me, the...be out in ten days any way!' — This is dreadful." Let me add that there was something more in it all than the gratification of mere fun and laughter,... | |
 | 1872 - 830 pàgines
...One out of many good stories here told conies from Mr. Carlyle. " An archdeacon," he wrote, in 1837, "with his own venerable lips repeated to me, the other...be out in ten days, any way ! ' This is dreadful." Among occasional work that Dickens did for the Examiner in these' early years was a review of Hood's... | |
 | Thomas Hood - 1872 - 206 pàgines
...with a large fortune, to his brother, the Dean of Elphin. IN THE PICKWICKIAN SENSE. AN archdeacon, with his own venerable lips, repeated to me the other..."Well, thank God, 'Pickwick' will be out in ten days anyway ! " This is dreadful ! WHERE THERE'S A WILL. A SHORT time ago the traveller of a Bristol tobacconist... | |
 | John Forster - 1872 - 574 pàgines
..."dreadful " me, "with his own venerable lips, repeated to me, story. The Life of Charles Dickens. I. II "the other night, a strange profane story: of a '-...out "'in ten days any way!' — This is dreadful." Let me add that there was something more in it all than the gratification of mere fun and laughter,... | |
 | John Forster - 1872 - 432 pàgines
...venerable lips, re- lyie's ' peated to me, the other night, a strange profane story : of story.' ' a solemn clergyman who had been administering ghostly...out in ten days any way ! " — This is dreadful.' Let me add that there was something more in it all than the gratification of mere fun and laughter,... | |
 | 1880 - 376 pàgines
...number." Writing at this time on the wonderful popularity of Pickwick, Thomas Carlyle says : An archdeacon with his own venerable lips repeated to me, the other...thought, and got out of the room, he heard the sick man ejaculate : " Well, thank God, Pickwick will be out in ten days any way." Having thus very briefly... | |
 | William S. Walsh - 1882 - 278 pàgines
...in the work, and had his stories to tell about its popularity. "An archdeacon," he wrote to Dickens, "with his own venerable lips, repeated to me, the...Well, thank God, Pickwick will be out in ten days anyway ! ' This is dreadful." It is curious that both Dickens and Byron should have won their spurs... | |
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with his own venerable lips, repeated to me, the other night, a strange profane story: of a solemn clergyman who had been administering ghostly consolation to a sick person; having finished, satisfactorily as he thought, and got out of the room, he heard... 
