 | John Forster - 1842
...graceful allusion to the tournament and the ' troop of knights all armed and eager for the fray ; and ' ended with the toast CHARLES DICKENS, THE GUEST OF...THE NATION. There ! said he, as he resumed his seat 'amid applause as great as had greeted his rising, There! ' I told you I should break down, and I've... | |
 | Henry Mills Alden, Frederick Lewis Allen, Lee Foster Hartman, Thomas Bucklin Wells - 1862
...graceful allusion to the tournament, and the troops of knights all armed and eager for the fray ; and ended with the toast, " Charles Dickens, the guest...said he, as he resumed his seat under a repetition of applause, "I told you I should break down, and I've done it !" "There certainly never was," remarks... | |
 | Pierre Munroe Irving - 1863
...graceful allusion to the tournament, and the troops of knights all armed and eager for the fray ; and ended with the toast, " Charles' Dickens, the guest...more successful one. The manuscript seemed to be a dozen or twenty pages long, but the printed speech was not as many lines. I suppose that manuscript... | |
 | Pierre Munroe Irving - 1863
...graceful allusion to the tournament, and the troops of knights all armed and eager for the fray ; and ended with the toast, " Charles Dickens, the guest...nation." " There!" said he, as he resumed his seat under ;i repetition of the applause which had saluted his rising ; " there ! I told you I should break down,... | |
 | WILLIAM HARRISON AINSWORTH - 1863
...proposing the toast of the evening, he reminded his friends near him, as he prematurely resumed his seat, " There ! I told you I should break down, and I've done it." Yet what he said was loudly applauded. His voice was pleasant ; all that he managed to remember was... | |
 | PIERRE M. IRVING - 1864
...graceful allusion to the tournament, and the troops of knights all armed and eager for the fray ; and ended with the toast, " Charles Dickens, the guest...he, as he resumed his seat under a repetition of the ap« plause which had saluted his rising ; " there ! I told you I should break down, and I've done... | |
 | Pierre Munroe Irving - 1869
...graceful allusion to the tournament, and the troops of knights all armed and eager for the fray; and ended with the toast, "Charles Dickens, the guest...was a more successful one. The manuscript seemed to bo a dozen or twenty pages long, but the printed speech was not as many lines. I suppose that manuscript... | |
 | James Grant Wilson - 1869 - 607 halaman
...disconcerted the timid speaker, that 'he completely broke down ; and, after uttering some incoherent words, ended with the toast, " Charles Dickens, the guest of the nation." " There," said Irving as he resumed his seat, " I told you I should break down, and I've done it ! " " He reminded... | |
 | CHARLES DICKENS. - 1870
...graceful allusion to the tournament, and the troop of knights all armed and eager for the fray ; and ended with the toast, ' Charles Dickens, the guest...down, and I've done it.' "There certainly never was a shorter afterdinner speech ; and I doubt if there ever was a more successful one. The manuscript... | |
 | John Camden Hotten - 1870 - 110 halaman
...allusion to the tournament, and the troop of knights all armed and eager for the fray ; and ended1 with the toast, ' Charles Dickens, the guest of. the...down, and I've done it.' "There certainly never was a shorter afterdinner speech ; and I doubt if there ever was a more successful one. The manuscript... | |
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... lessened his apprehension. He began in his pleasant voice ; got through two or three sentences pretty easily, but in the next hesitated ; and, after one or two attempts to go on, gave it up, with a graceful allusion to the tournament, and the troops... 
