 | 1895 - 862 sider
...comprehensive term, including all but some thirty minds in each generation. " I shall dine late," he says ; " but the dining-room will be well lighted, the guests few and select." In regard to this, as in most things, however, he was not free from inconsistency, and we may reasonably... | |
 | 1920 - 450 sider
...authors and not commonly thumbed by the average reader. Yet he is excellent reading, and his prediction "I shall dine late ; but the dining-room will be well lighted, the guests few »nd select," has long since, we think, been verified among judicious tasters of English. We thank... | |
 | 1920 - 968 sider
...authors and not commonly thumbed by the average reader. Yet he is excellent reading, and his prediction " I shall dine late ; but the dining-room will be well lighted, the guests few and select," has lung since, we think, been verified among judicious tasters of English. We thank Mr. Bailey, who... | |
 | Walter Savage Landor - 1853 - 554 sider
...study and business. I have publisht five volumes of Imaginary Conversations: cut the worst of them thro the middle, and there will remain in this decimal...for fame. I shall dine late; but the diningroom will DC well lighted, the guests few and select. In this age of discovery it may haply be discovered, who... | |
 | 1854 - 526 sider
...and business. I have publisht five volumes of Imaginary Conversations : cut the worst of them thro the middle, and there will remain in this decimal...will be well lighted, the guests few and select." This last sentence is as happy in fgrm as in spirit we believe it to be true. Mr. Landor is too capacious... | |
 | George Smith, William Makepeace Thackeray - 1878 - 838 sider
...characteristic vigour. " I have published," he says in the conversation with Hare, " five volumes of Imaginary Conversations : cut the worst of them through the middle, and there will remain in the decimal fraction enough to satisfy my appetite for fame. I shall dine late ; but the dining-room... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1878 - 828 sider
...have published," ' - says in the conversation with Hare, " five volumes of Imaginary Co.toersations : cut the worst of them through the middle, and there will remain in the decimal fraction enough to satisfy my appetite for fame. I shall dine late ; but the dining-room... | |
 | John Forster - 1869 - 726 sider
...certain, and you know it well. I shall have as many readers as I desire to have in other times than ours. I shall dine late ; but the diningroom will be well lighted, the guests few and select 1 neither am, nor ever shall be, popular. Such never was my ambition. Thousands of people, for centuries... | |
 | John Forster - 1869 - 618 sider
...certain, and you know it well. I shall have as many readers as I desire to have in other times than ours. I shall dine late ; but the dining-room will be well -lighted, the gnests few and select. I neither am, nor ever shall be, popular. Such never was my ambition. Thousands... | |
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Conversations: cut the worst of them through the middle, and there will remain in this decimal fraction quite enough to satisfy my appetite for fame. I shall dine late ; but the dining-room will be well lighted, the guests few and select. 
