 | Irvah Lester Winter - 1912 - 454 halaman
...the guest of the nation," and 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, later, Irving "consented to preside at a dinner, if speeches were absolutely forbidden... | |
 | Bertram Waldrom Matz - 1916 - 378 halaman
..." Professor Felton, who was at the dinner, after Dickens's death said, " There certainly never was a shorter after-dinner speech, I doubt if there ever...more successful one. The manuscript seemed to be a dozen or twenty pages long, but the printed speech was not as many lines." Just previous to Dickens's... | |
 | James William Thomas Ley - 1919 - 530 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...a repetition of the applause which had saluted his rising—'there! I told you I should break down, and I've done it.'" to take up the duties of American... | |
 | Pierre Munroe Irving, Washington Irving - 2001 - 405 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 doue it.'' There certainly never was made a shorter after-dinner speech ; I doubt if there ever was... | |
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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... 
