 | Robert Waters - 1909 - 384 Seiten
...which I had on the road, and one-half penny that I had lost somehow or other, left threepence in my pocket. With this for my whole fortune, I was trudging...garters tied under my knees, when, staring about me, my eyes fell upon a little book in a bookseller's window, on the outside of which was written, ' THE TALE... | |
 | Charles Wells Moulton - 1910 - 616 Seiten
...DRAKE, NATHAN, 1804, Essays Illustrative of the Tattler, Spectator and Guardian, vol. ill, p. 143. With this for my whole fortune, I was trudging through...garters tied under my knees, when, staring about me, my eyes fell upon a little book in a bookseller's window, on the outside of which was written "The Tale... | |
 | Ramsden Balmforth - 1912 - 252 Seiten
..."With this for my whole fortune," he says, " I was trudging through Richmond in my blue smock frock, and my red garters tied under my knees, when, staring...fell upon a little book in a bookseller's window, ' The Tale of a Tub,' price 3d. The title was so odd that my curiosity was excited. I had the 3d.,... | |
 | Lewis Saul Benjamin - 1913 - 396 Seiten
...beer which I had on the road, and one halfpenny that I lost somehow or other, left threepence in my pocket. With this for my whole fortune, I was trudging...bookseller's window, on the outside of which was written, "The Tale of a Tub, price 3d." The title was so odd that my curiosity was excited. I had the three... | |
 | William Cobbett - 1927 - 186 Seiten
...which I had on the road, and one half-penny that I had lost somehow or other, left three pence in my pocket. With this for my whole fortune, I was trudging...on the outside of which was written : " TALE OF A 139 " TUB ; PRICE 3d." The title was so odd, that my curiosity was excited. I. had the 3d. but, then,... | |
 | John Dennis - 1928 - 280 Seiten
...his boyhood by William Cobbett is worth recording : ' I was trudging through Richmond,' he writes, ' in my blue smock-frock, and my red garters tied under my knees, when, staring about me, my eyes fell upon a little book in a bookseller's window, on the outside of which was written, " Tale... | |
 | 1870 - 870 Seiten
...in my blue smock-frock, aud my red gaiters tied under my kuces, when staring about me, my eye foil upon a little book in a bookseller's window, on the outside of which was written, • The Tale of a Tub, price threepence.' The title was so odd that iny curiosity was excited. I had... | |
 | Steven Gilbar - 1992 - 148 Seiten
...halfpenny that I had lost somehow or other, left three pence in my pocket. With this for my THE OPEN DOOR whole fortune, I was trudging through Richmond in...fell upon a little book, in a bookseller's window: Tale of a Tub; price T,d. The title was so odd, that my curiosity was excited. I had the T,d., but,... | |
 | The Farmer's Magazine. - 1835 - 548 Seiten
...which I had on the road, and one-halfpenny that I had lost somehow or other, left three pence in my pocket. With this for my whole fortune, I was trudging...of a Tub ; price 3d." The title was so odd, that my curiosty was excited. 1 had the 3d. but then I could have no supper. In I went, and got the little... | |
 | James Anthony Froude, John Tulloch - 1867 - 942 Seiten
...walked off, and towards the evening of a day in June reached Richmond with threepence in his pocket. I was trudging through Richmond, in my blue smock-frock...garters tied under my knees, when staring about me my eyes fell upon a little book in a bookseller's window, on the outside of which was written ' Tale of... | |
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I had lost somehow or other, left threepence in my pocket. With this for my whole fortune, I was trudging through Richmond in my blue smockfrock, and my red garters tied under my knees, when, staring about me, my eye fell upon a little book in a bookseller's... 
