He was a very comic dog, and it was well for me that I was reading a very comic part of the book. But when he bounced out into the centre aisle again, in an entirely new place (still looking intently at me) and tried the effect of a bark upon my proceedings,... The Letters of Charles Dickens - Page 196by Charles Dickens - 1880 - 763 pagesFull view - About this book
| John Forster - 1874 - 616 pages
...bounced out into the centre aisle again, in an entirely new place, and (still looking intently at me) tried the effect of a bark upon my proceedings, I...audience, and we roared at one another, loud and long." Three days later the sequel came, in a letter to his sister-in-law. "I mentioned the dog on the first... | |
| John Forster - 1874 - 802 pages
...bounced out into the centre aisle again, in an entirely new place, and (still looking intently at me) tried the effect of a bark upon my proceedings, I...audience, and we roared at one another, loud and long." Three days later the sequel came, in a letter to his sister-in-law. "I mentioned the dog on the first... | |
| John Forster - 1874 - 616 pages
...bounced out into the centre aisle again, in an entirely new place, and (still looking intently at me) tried the effect of a bark upon my proceedings, I...audience, and we roared at one another, loud and long." Three days later the sequel came, in a letter to his sister-in-law. "I mentioned the dog on the first... | |
| John Forster - 1874 - 586 pages
...me) tried the effect of a bark upon my ' proceedings, I was seized with such a paroxysm of laugh' ter that it communicated itself to the audience, and we 'roared at one another, loud and long.' Three days later the sequel came, in a letter to his sister-in-law. ' I men' tioned the dog on the... | |
| 1880 - 820 pages
...vastest audiences, and how liable to be carried away by his uncontrollable sense of the ridiculous : " The gas was very defective indeed last night, and...audience, and we roared at one another loud and long." The second appearance of the same intruder is thus described : " I mentioned the dog on the first night... | |
| Charles H. Jones - 1882 - 276 pages
...well for me that I was reading a very comic part of the book. But when he bounced out into the center aisle again, in an entirely new place (still looking...audience, and we roared at one another loud and long." (To Mm Hogarth, from Washington, February 7th.) — " The papers here having given out about this being... | |
| Charles Dickens - 1889 - 298 pages
...must trust to the brightness of their faces for the illumination of mine ; this was taken greatly. lu the " Carol," a most ridiculous incident occurred...to-morrow. He has a whole row for his family every night. [ TO MR. CHARLES LANMAN ] WASHINGTON, February 5th, 1868. My dear Sir :x Tour reference to my dear... | |
| Charles Dickens - 1899 - 602 pages
...bounced out into the centre aisle again, in an entirely ' new place, and (still looking intently at me) tried the effect of a ' bark upon my proceedings,...audience, and we ' roared at one another, loud and long.' Three days later the sequel came, in a letter to his sister-in-law. ' I mentioned the ' dog on the... | |
| Charles Dickens - 2004 - 406 pages
...(still looking intently at me) and tried the effect of a bark upon my proceedings," he wrote to Mamie, "I was seized with such a paroxysm of laughter, that...audience, and we roared at one another loud and long" (p. 35). But that was not the last of the literary mutt. "Next night," he reported to Georgina on February... | |
| 1880 - 862 pages
...vastest audiences, and how liable to be carried away by his uncontrollable sense of the ridiculous. The gas was very defective indeed last night, and...audience, and we roared at one another loud and long. The second appearance of the same intruder is thus described : — I mentioned the dog on the first night... | |
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