GARRICK. fO a homeless man, who has no spot on this wide world which he can truly call his own, there is a momentary feeling of something like independence and territorial consequence, when, after a weary day's travel, he kicks off his boots, thrusts... The Table Book... - Page 439by William Hone - 1827 - 870 pagesFull view - About this book
| Charles George Harper - Bars (Drinking establishments) - 1906 - 372 pages
...has no spot on this wide world which he can truly call his own," he says, in a memorable passage, " there is a momentary feeling of something like independence...when, after a weary day's travel, he kicks off his hoots, thrusts his feet into slippers, and stretches himself before an inn fire. Let the world without... | |
| Alfred Thomas Story - British - 1908 - 398 pages
...much-travelled man, " who has no spot in this wide world which he can truly call his own, there is a feeling of something like independence and territorial...travel, he kicks off his boots, thrusts his feet into his slippers, and stretches himself before an inn fire. Let the world without go as it may ; let kingdoms... | |
| Washington Irving - 1911 - 470 pages
...head. GARRICK. To a homeless man, who has no spot on this wide world which he can truly call his own, there is a momentary feeling of something like independence...off his boots, thrusts his feet into slippers, and 5 stretches himself before an inn fire. Let the world without go as it may, let kingdoms rise or fall,... | |
| William Holden Hutton - Warwickshire (England) - 1914 - 474 pages
...passage : — " To a homeless man, who has no spot on this wide world which he can truly call his own, there is a momentary feeling of something like independence...without go as it may ; let kingdoms rise or fall, so Washington Irving's Sceptre. long as he has the wherewithal to pay his bill, he is, for the time being,... | |
| Washington Irving - 1916 - 422 pages
...head. GARRICK. To a homeless man, who has no spot on this wide world which he can truly call his own, there is a momentary feeling of something like independence...after a weary day's travel, he kicks off his boots, thrust* bis feet into slippers, and stretches himself before an innfire. Let the world without go as... | |
| Fritz August Gottfried Endell - Bars (Drinking establishments) - 1916 - 366 pages
...homeless man, there is a momentary feeling of something like independence and territorial consequence, 103 when, after a weary day's travel, he kicks off his...slippers, and stretches himself before an inn fire." This picture gallery of the street signs was still more magnificent in London, where even the theaters... | |
| Fritz August Gottfried Endell - Bars (Drinking establishments) - 1916 - 358 pages
...and cozy, if we may believe his praise of the old inn in his " Sketch-Book " : " To a homeless man, there is a momentary feeling of something like independence and territorial consequence, 103 This picture gallery of the street signs was still more magnificent in London, where even the theaters... | |
| Lee Emerson Bassett - Elocution - 1917 - 376 pages
...group.) To the homeless man — who has no spot on this wide world whicli he can truly call his own, — there is a momentary feeling of something like independence...slippers,— and stretches himself before an inn fire. Irving : Stratford-on-Avon. In reading the above selection aloud it will be observed that the words... | |
| William Naill Otto - Commercial correspondence - 1918 - 232 pages
...as follows: "To a homeless man, who has no spot on this wide world which he can truly call his own, there is a momentary feeling of something like independence...fall, so long as he has the wherewithal to pay his btll, he is, for the time being, the very monarch of all he surveys. The armchair is his throne, the... | |
| Francis Patrick Donnelly - English language - 1920 - 238 pages
...Indian Character, To a homeless man, who has no spot on this wide world which he can truly call his own, there is a momentary feeling of something like independence...slippers, and stretches himself before an inn fire. — Stratford-on-A von. Its shadowy aisles, its mouldering monuments, its dark oaken panelling, all... | |
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