 | John Camden Hotten - 1870 - 138 halaman
...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...seat under a repetition of the applause which had sainted his rising — ' there ! I told you I should break down, and I've done it.' "There certainly... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1870 - 724 halaman
...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 of the nation." " There 1 " said he, as he resumed his seat under a repetition of the applause which had saluted his rising... | |
 | John Forster - 1872 - 442 halaman
...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... | |
 | John Forster - 1872 - 432 halaman
...tournament and the ' troop of knights all armed and eager for the fray ; and ' ended with the toast CHAELES 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... | |
 | John Forster - 1872 - 574 halaman
...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 "done it!" He was in London a few months later, on his way to Spain; and I heard Thomas Moore describe* at Rogers's... | |
 | John Camden Hotten - 1873 - 812 halaman
...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...nation.' 'There!' said he, as he resumed his seat DfCKENSS VtSIT TO AMERICA. 117 under a repetition of the applause which had saluted his rising, —... | |
 | Richard Henry Stoddard - 1874 - 336 halaman
...eager for the fray ; and ended with the toast, ' Charles Dickens, the guest of the nation.7 ' There ! J said he, as he resumed his seat under a repetition...down, and -I've done it.' " There certainly never was a shorter after-dinner speech ; and I doubt if there ever was a more successful one. The manuscript... | |
 | Richard Henry Stoddard - 1875 - 346 halaman
...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...— ' there ! I told you I should break down, and I 've done it' " There certainly never was a shorter after-dinner speech ; and I doubt if there ever... | |
 | Richard Henry Stoddard - 1875 - 348 halaman
...should break down, and I 've done' it.' " There certainly never was a shorter after-dinner speech ; and I doubt if there ever was a more successful one. The manuscript seemed to be a dozen or twenty pages long, but the printed speech was not as many lines. " Mr. Irving often spoke... | |
 | David Jayne Hill - 1879 - 252 halaman
...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...resumed his seat, under a repetition of the applause that had saluted his rising, — ' there ! I told you I should break down, and I've done it ! " l Irving... | |
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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... 
