 formed almost inexhaustible food for my fancy. I seem to know every inch of Whitehall. I go in at Hans Holbein's gate, and come out through the matted gallery. The conversations •which I compose between great people of the time are long, and sufficiently...  The Edinburgh Review - Page 5501876Affichage du livre entier - À propos de ce livre
 | George Otto Trevelyan - 1876 - 502 pages
...out through the matted gallery. The conversations which I compose between great people of the tifne are long, and sufficiently animated : in the style,...he used to wander about Paris, weaving tales of the Eevolution, and he thought that he owed his command of language greatly to this habit. " I am very... | |
 | George Otto Trevelyan - 1876 - 430 pages
...conversations which I compose between great people of the time are long, and sufficiently auimated : in the style, if not with the merits, of Sir Walter...my stories.' He spoke, too, of the manner in which ho used to wander about Paris, weaving tales of the Revolution, and he thought that he owed his command... | |
 | 1876 - 966 pages
...and come out through the matted gallery. The conversations which I compose between the great people of the time are long and sufficiently animated ; in...at my knowing so well, those old gates and houses clown by the river, have all played their part in my stories."' In other words, the hunger of his imagination... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1881 - 856 pages
...which I compose between great people of the time are long, and sufficiently animated; in the style, it not with the merits, of Sir Walter Scott's. The old...the manner in which he used to wander about Paris, we ving tales of the Revolution, and he thought that he owed 11 command of language greatly to this... | |
 | 1881 - 314 pages
...through the matted gallery. The conversations I compose between great people of the time are long and animated, in the style — if not with the merits— of Sir Walter Scott's." He spoke of the manner in which he used to wander about Paris, weaving tales of the Revolution. He... | |
 | 1884 - 862 pages
...which I compose between great people of the time are long and sufficiently animated, in the stvle, if not with the merits, of Sir Walter -Scott's. The...sometimes surprised at my knowing so well, those old gates ami houses down by the river, have all pUved their part in my stories." He spoke, too, of the manner... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1890 - 1100 pages
...gate, and come out through the matted gallery. The conversations which I compose between great people xternal badges, like the sigus of freemasonry, or...must make our choice, we shall, like Bassanio in the Meanwhile, perhaps because of Brougham's growing antipathy to him, which Macaulay was not slow to return,... | |
 | George Otto Trevelyan - 1914 - 374 pages
...gate, and come out through the matted gallery. The conversations which I compose between great people of the time are long, and sufficiently animated :...parts of London, which you are sometimes surprised at 5 my knowing so well, those old gates and houses down by the river, have all played their part in my... | |
 | William Lonsdale Watkinson, William Theophilus Davison - 1877 - 544 pages
...people of the time arc long, and sufficiently animated, in the style, if not with Literary Notices. 231 the merits of Sir Walter Scott's. The old parts of...river, have all played their part in my stories.' " We do not claim for an imagination of this order the very highest rank, but it is only affectation... | |
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