| 1836 - 636 páginas
...with any thing between New York and Constantinople — Broadway and the Hippodrome included.1' — vol. iii, pp. 68 —73. No one can quarrel with this...Lady B , he made his compliments with a gaiety and an case combined with a kind of worshipping deference that was worthy of a prime-minister at the court... | |
| 1836 - 740 páginas
...might, the melancholy twilight half hour preceding dinner. "'Mr. M !' cried the footman at the hottom of the staircase. ' Mr. M !' cried the footman at...top. And with his glass at his eye, stumbling over an an ottoman between his near-sightedness and the darkness of the room, entered the poet. Half a glance... | |
| Nathaniel Parker Willis - 1844 - 238 páginas
...hiiur preceding dinner. '• Mr. Moore!" cried the footman at the bottom of the staircase. "Mr. Moore!" cried the footman at the top. And with his glass at...tells you that he is at home on a carpet. Sliding his utile feet up to Lady Blessington (of whom he was a lover when she w.is sixteen, and to whom some of... | |
| 1852 - 892 páginas
...few minutes when — " Mr. Moore," cried the footman, at the bottom of the staircase. " Mr. Moore," cried the footman at the top ; and with his glass...the room, enter the poet. Half a glance tells you he is at home on the carpet. Sliding his litte feet up to Lady Blessington, he made his compliments... | |
| 1852 - 486 páginas
...few minutes when — "Mr. Moore," cried the footman, at the bottom of the staircase. " Mr. Moore," cried the footman at the top ; and with his glass...near-sightedness and the darkness of the room, enter the poet. Haifa glance tells you he is at home on the carpet. Sliding his litte feet up to Lady Blessington,... | |
| Nathaniel Parker Willis - 1853 - 556 páginas
...footman at the top. And with his glass at bis eye, stumbling over an ottoman between his nearsigh tedness and the darkness of the room, enter the poet, Half...home on a carpet. Sliding his little feet up to Lady Blessington (of whom he was a lover when she was sixteen, and to whom some of the sweetest of his songs... | |
| Nathaniel Parker Willis - 1853 - 564 páginas
...the footman at tho bottom of the staircase, "Mr. Moore!" cried the footman at the top. And with bis glass at his eye, stumbling over an ottoman between...room, enter the poet. Half a glance tells you that hn is at home on a carpet. Sliding his little feet up to Lady Blessington (of whom he was a lover when... | |
| Thomas Moore - 1853 - 482 páginas
...bottom of the staircase ; ' Mr. Moore,' eriid the footman at the top ; and with his glass at his eve, stumbling over an ottoman between his near-sightedness and the darkness of the room, enters the poet. Half a glance tells you he is at home on the carpet. Sliding his little feet up to... | |
| 1855 - 700 páginas
...least be certain." " ' Mr. Moore !' cried the footman at the bittom of the staircase. ' Mr. Moore!' cried the footman at the top. And with his glass at...a glance tells you that he is at home on a carpet. * * * He had the frank, merry manner of a confident favorite, and he was greeted like one. He went... | |
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