 | 1895 - عدد الصفحات: 862
...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 - عدد الصفحات: 968
...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 - عدد الصفحات: 598
...will remain in this decimal fraction quite enough to satisfy my appetite for fame. I shall dine late ; but the diningroom will be well lighted, the guests few and select. In this age of discovery it may haply be discovered, who first among our Cisalpine nations led Greek... | |
 | 1854 - عدد الصفحات: 526
...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." This last sentence is as happy in fgrm as in spirit we believe it to be true. Mr. Landor is too capacious... | |
 | John Forster - 1869 - عدد الصفحات: 726
...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... | |
 | Edmund Clarence Stedman - 1875 - عدد الصفحات: 472
...: " 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 guests few and select." Southey buried himself in work, when galled by his failure to touch the popular heart; Landor, in life... | |
 | Walter Savage Landor - 1876 - عدد الصفحات: 618
...will remain in this decimal fraction quite enough to satisfy my appetite for fame. I shall dine late ; but the diningroom will be well lighted, the guests few and select. In this age of discovery it may haply be discovered, who first among our Cisalpine nations led Greek... | |
 | Leslie Stephen - 1879 - عدد الصفحات: 424
...there will remain in the decimal fraction enough to satisfy my appetite for fame. I shall dine late ; but the dining-room will be well lighted, the guests few and select." He recurs frequently to the doctrine. " Be patient ! " he says, in another character. " From the higher... | |
 | Sidney Colvin - 1882 - عدد الصفحات: 434
...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. I claim no place in the world of letters; I am alone, and will be alone, as long as I live, and after.... | |
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: 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. 
