 | Edmund Burke - History - 1880 - 702 pages
...been no village too small to afford a crowd to greet him, there has been no cottager BO\ humble that could not find a light to put in his window ; as he passed mothers have brought their babies to lisp a hurrah, old men have crept forth from their homes to see him before they died. These... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Books - 1880 - 692 pages
...been no village too small to afford a crowd to greet him, there has been no cottager so humble that could not find a light to put in his window ; as he passed mothers have brought their babies to lisp a hurrah, old men have crept forth from their homes to see him before they died. These... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Books - 1880 - 712 pages
...been no village too small to afford a crowd to greet him, there has been no cottager so humble that could not find a light to put in his window ; as he passed mothers have brought their babies to lisp a hurrah, old men have crept forth from their homes to see him tafore they died. These... | |
 | Thomas F. G. Coates - Great Britain - 1900 - 542 pages
...Corn Exchange Lord Rosebery, in introducing Mr. Gladstone to the audience, spoke of " that silvery voice which has enchanted Scotland and enchained the...forth from their homes to see him before they died." Everywhere, too, there was evidenced not only the love of the people for Mr. Gladstone, but the deep... | |
 | Sir Spencer Walpole - Great Britain - 1908 - 438 pages
...small to afford a crowd to greet him, there has been no cottager so humble that he could not afford a light to put in his window ; as he passed mothers have brought their babes to lisp a hurrah ; old men have crept forth from their homes to see him before they died. There have been no... | |
 | E. T. Raymond - Great Britain - 1923 - 264 pages
...in Wales to the metropolis of Scotland there has been no village too small to afford a crowd to see him, no cottager so humble that he could not find...forth from their homes to see him before they died." It might be added, in less elevated vein, that the hero arrived at Waverley Station almost like a commercial... | |
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From his home in Wales to the Metropolis of Scotland, there has been no village too small to afford a crowd to greet him — there has been no cottager so humble that could not find a light to put in his window as he passed. Mothers have brought their... 