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" Chalet (where I write), and they reflect and refract in all kinds of ways the leaves that are quivering at the windows, and the great fields of waving corn, and the sail-dotted river. My room is up among the branches of the trees ; and the birds and the... "
Dickens - Page 181
by Sir Adolphus William Ward - 1882 - 224 pages
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The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 28

1871 - 776 pages
...out, if I had come to our own station, and draw me here. M and G had got wind of it and warned me.) Divers birds sing here all day, and the nightingales...is growing for miles and miles, is most delicious. Dolby (who sends a world of messages) found his wife much better than he expected, and the children...
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The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 26

1870 - 786 pages
...written not long ago to a friend in America he thus described his home : — " Divers birds sing fcere all day, and the nightingales all night. The place...is growing for miles and miles, is most delicious." There he could be most thoroughly enjoyed, for he never seemed so cheerfully at home anywhere else....
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Yesterdays with Authors

James Thomas Fields - 1872 - 370 pages
...out, if I had come to our own station, and draw me here. M and G had got wind of it and warned me.) Divers birds sing here all day, and the nightingales...is growing for miles and miles, is most delicious. Dolby (who sends a world of messages) found his wife much better than he expected, and the children...
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The Life of Charles Dickens, Volume 3

John Forster - 1874 - 656 pages
...leaves that are quivering at the win"dows, and the great fields of waving corn, and in thu chalet, "the sail-dotted river. My room is up among "the branches...grow"ing for miles and miles, is most delicious." He used to make great boast, too, not only of his crowds of singing birds all day, but of his nightingales...
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The casquet of literature, a selection in poetry and prose, ed ..., Volumes 1-2

Casket - 1873 - 874 pages
...all night. The place is lovely, and in perfect order. I have put five mirrors in the Swiss ehillet English tar. ANON. YE MARINERS OF ENGLAND. Ye mariners of England, That guard our native seas, WTiose There he could be most thoroughly enjoyed, for he never seemed so cheerfully at home anywhere else....
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1852-1870

John Forster - 1874 - 616 pages
...also of French manufacture, and also full of comic suggestion. It was a statuette of a dog-fancier, "and they reflect and refract, in all kinds of ways,...is growing for miles and miles, is most delicious." He used to make great boast, too, not only of his crowds of singing birds all day, but of his nightingales...
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The Life of Charles Dickens: 1852-1870

John Forster - 1874 - 616 pages
...also of French manufacture, and also full of comic suggestion. It was a statuette of a dog-fancier, 4 -'and they reflect and refract, in all kinds of ways,...is growing for miles and miles, is most delicious." He used to make great boast, too, not only of his crowds of singing birds all day, but of his nightingales...
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The Life of Charles Dickens, Volume 3

John Forster - 1874 - 586 pages
...much higher than we 'supposed.' GADS HILL PLACE : 1856-70. In the chalet. Dickens's writingtable. ' refract, in all kinds of ways, the leaves that are...growing for miles and ' miles, is most delicious.' He used to make great boast, little accompaniments of work (ii. 214) were carried along with him ;...
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The Life of Charles Dickens: 1852-1870

John Forster - 1874 - 802 pages
...branches shoot in at the open windows, and the lights and shadows of the clouds come and go with the res of the company. The scent of the flowers, and indeed...is growing for miles and miles, is most delicious." He used to make great boast, too not only of his crowds of singing birds all day, but of his nightingales...
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Charles Dickens, Barry Cornwall & Some of His Friends

James Thomas Fields - 1876 - 444 pages
...windows, and the lights and shadows of the elouds eome and go wiili the rest of the eompany. The seent of the flowers, and indeed of everything that is growing for miles and miles, is most delieious. Dolliy ;.who sends a world of messages) found his wife mueh better than he expeeted, and...
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