 | Washington Irving - 1882 - 408 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...a repetition of the applause which had saluted his arising; " there! I told you I should break down, and I've done it." There certainly never was made... | |
 | Pierre Munroe Irving - 1883 - 346 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...rising ; " there ! I told you I should break down, and I 've done it." There certainly never was made a shorter after-dinner speech ; I doubt if there ever... | |
 | George William Curtis - 1894 - 310 halaman
...guest of the nation " — then sank into his chair amid immense applause, whispering to his neighbor, " There, I told you I should break down, and I've done it." When Thackeray came, Irving consented to preside at a dinner if speeches were absolutely forbidden.... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1899 - 570 halaman
...GUEST OF THE 1 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... | |
 | Theodore Frelinghuysen Wolfe - 1898 - 258 halaman
...guest in the very shortest and most abruptly closed of dinner speeches, terminating with the aside, " There, I told you I should break down, and I've done it !" A humbler resort, whose character remains little changed although the building has been reconstructed,... | |
 | Sir Frank Thomas Marzials - 1908 - 600 halaman
...GUEST OF THE NATIOK. Th crc I 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, oh his way to Spain ; and I heard Thomas Moore describe at Rogers's... | |
 | William Teignmouth Shore - 1909 - 382 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...there, I told you I should break down, and I've done it ' " In a letter to Rogers from New York, dated February 3, 1836, Irving writes : " I am building a... | |
 | Charles Wells Moulton - 1910 - 810 halaman
...a speech, he was obliged to obey the universal call, and to accept the painful pre-eminence. . . . Under the circumstances, — an invited guest, with...more successful one. The manuscript seemed to be a dozen or twenty pages long; but the printed speech was not as many lines.— FELTON, CORNELIUS CONWAY,... | |
 | William Glyde Wilkins - 1911 - 390 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...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... | |
 | Henry Van Dyke - 1911 - 444 halaman
...before he was called upon to speak, even though his speech was all written out and lay beside his plate. "There! I told you I should break down, and I've done it! " he exclaimed, as he resumed his seat with his speech only half delivered, but with all the table... | |
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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... 
