Old gentlemen and ancient ladies flirt after their own manner in two reading-rooms and on a great many scattered seats in the open air. Other old gentlemen look all day through telescopes and never see anything. In a bay-window in a one-pair sits, from... The Letters of Charles Dickens: 1836 to 1870 - Page 53by Charles Dickens - 1882Full view - About this book
| 1913 - 878 pages
...something of a Leach picture in the account that Dickens wrote of himself to Professor Felton in 1843? In a bay-window in a one-p|air sits, from nine o'clock...grins, as If he thought he were very funny indeed. At one he disappears, presently emerges from a bathing-machine, and may be seen, a kind of salmon-colored... | |
| Charles Dickens - 1921 - 392 pages
...self-drawn portrait at Broadstairs. " In a bay window, in a one-pair, sits, from nine o'clock till one, a gentleman with rather long hair and no neckcloth,...thought he were very funny indeed. His name is Boz." It has been said that Dickens, like the true actor, always longed to feel the sympathy of those for... | |
| James Thomas Fields - 1872 - 370 pages
...old gentlemen look all day through telescopes and never see anything. In a bay-window in a one pair sits from nine o'clock to one a gentleman with rather...At one he disappears, and presently emerges from a bathmg-machine, and may be seen — a kind of salmon-colored porpoise — splashing about in the ocean.... | |
| John Forster - 1873 - 528 pages
...and another sketch from himself, to his American friend, will show his sea-side life in ordinary. " In a bay-window in a one-pair sits, from nine o'clock...grins as if he thought he were very funny indeed. At one he disappears, presently emerges from a bathingmachine, and may be seen, a kind of salmon-coloured... | |
| James Thomas Fields - 1876 - 444 pages
...bay-window in a one pair sits from nine o'eloek to one a gentleman with rather long hair and no neekeloth, who writes and grins as if he thought he were very...At one he disappears, and presently emerges from a bathing-maehine, and may be seen — a kind of salmon-eolored porpoise — splashing about in the oeean.... | |
| Sir Adolphus William Ward - 1882 - 244 pages
...— and its constant visitor, are thus described in a letter written to an American friend in 1843 : "This is a little fishing-place; intensely quiet;...thought he were very funny indeed. His name is Boz." Not a few houses at Broadstairs may boast of having been at one time or another inhabited by him and... | |
| Sir Adolphus William Ward - 1882 - 244 pages
...— and its constant visitor, are thus described in a letter written to an American friend in 1843 : "This is a little fishing-place; intensely quiet;...thought he were very funny indeed. His name is Boz." Not a few houses at Broadstairs may boast of having been at one time or another inhabited by him and... | |
| Charles H. Jones - 1882 - 276 pages
...our house stands ; the sea rolling and dashing under the windows. ... In a bay-window in a one pair, sits from nine o'clock to one a gentleman with rather...grins as if he thought he were very funny indeed. At one he disappears, presently emerges from a bathing-machine, and may be seen a kind of salmon-colored... | |
| Mamie Dickens - 1885 - 158 pages
...Broadstairs, and writing about himself at this time to a friend, Charles Dickens says, " In a bay window in a one-pair sits, from nine o'clock to one, a gentleman...grins as if he thought he were very funny indeed. At one he disappears, presently emerges from a bathing-machine, and may be seen, a kind of salmon-coloured... | |
| Sir Adolphus William Ward - 1887 - 248 pages
...bay-window in a one-pair sits, from nine o'clock to one, a gentleman with rather long hair and no neckeloth, who writes and grins as if he thought he were very funny indeed. His name is Boz." Not a few houses at Broadstairs may boast of having been at one time or another inhabited by him and... | |
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