 | James Thomas Fields - 1872 - 370 pages
...appeals to their pockets. This passage was to have great influence with the rich merchants, this one with the clergy, and so on. He said that although...should be seated directly in front of him, so that I should have the full force of his magic eloquence. The occasion was a most brilliant one ; tickets... | |
 | Casket - 1873 - 874 pages
...one with the clergy, and *o on. He s«u<l that although Dickens and Bnlwer and Sir James Stephen, al! kindly,' says I. 'That's a fine baste you're dhrivin',' ваув he. 'Throth, she is/ says I ; th lie insisted that I should be seated directly in front of him, so that I should have the full force... | |
 | Robert Cochrane (miscellaneous writer) - 1878 - 570 pages
...appeals to their pockets. This passage was to have great influence with the rich merchants, this one with the clergy, and so on. He said that although...should be seated directly in front of him so that I should have the full force of his magic eloquence. The occasion was a most brilliant one ; tickets... | |
 | James Thomas Fields - 1881 - 440 pages
...appeals to their pockets. This passage was to have great influence with the rich merchants, this one with the clergy, and so on. He said that although...speakers, were to precede him, he intended to beat each THACKERAY. 19 of them on this special occasion. He insisted that I should he seated directly in front... | |
 | James Thomas Fields - 1885 - 458 pages
...appeals to their pockets. This passage was to have great influence with the rich merchants, this one with the clergy, and so on. He said that although...should be seated directly in front of him, so that I should have the full force of his magic eloquence. The occasion was a most brilliant one ; tickets... | |
 | Lewis Melville, Lewis Saul Benjamin - 1899 - 422 pages
...appeals to their pockets. This passage was to have great influence with the rich merchants, this one with the clergy, and so on. He said that although Dickens, and Bulwer, and Sir James Stephen—all eloquent speakers—were to precede him, he intended to beat each of them on this special... | |
 | Lewis Melville, Lewis Saul Benjamin - 1911 - 412 pages
...that town. The would-be orator declared that although Dickens and Bulwer Lytton and Sir James Stephen were to precede him, he intended to beat each of them on this occasion. He insisted that Mr. Field should be seated directly in front of him, so that he should not... | |
 | Lewis Saul Benjamin, Lewis Melville - 1928 - 328 pages
...appeals to their pockets. This passage was to have great influence with the rich merchants, this one with the clergy, and so on. He said that although...— were to precede him, he intended to beat each one of them on this special occasion. He insisted that I should be seated directly in front of him,... | |
 | Lewis Saul Benjamin - 1928 - 534 pages
...appeals to their pockets. This passage was to have great influence with the rich merchants, this one with the clergy, and so on. He said that although Dickens, and Bulwer, and Sir James Stephen—all eloquent speakers— were to precede him, he intended to beat each of them on this special... | |
 | 1871 - 818 pages
...appeals to their pockets. This passage was to have great influence with the rich merchants, this one with the clergy, and so on. He said that although...should be seated directly in front of him, so that I should have the full force of his magic eloquence. The occasion was a most brilliant one ; tickets... | |
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... at the founding of the Free Library Institution in that city. All the way down he was discoursing of certain effects he intended to produce on the Manchester dons by his eloquent appeals to their pockets. This passage was to have great influence with... 
