 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1836 - 568 pages
...My vanity was exalted to so high a pitch, that I fancied myself a personage of sufficient importance to attract the notice of the crowd which covered the...anxiety to arrive at the popular Society. In a vast room, which admitted very little light, were seated the members of the Society, all of them with red... | |
 | Lucien Bonaparte (prince de Canino) - France - 1836 - 272 pages
...Brother — It is not yet time ! I HA.D departed with the deputation from Ajaccio, and a favourable wind wafted us to France in twenty-four hours. I had...which admitted very little light, were seated the members of the society, all of them with red caps on their heads. The galleries were filled with noisy... | |
 | English literature - 1836 - 596 pages
...My vanity was exalted to so high a pitch, that I fancied myself a personage of sufficient importance to attract the notice of the crowd which covered the...which admitted very little light, were seated the members of the Society, all of them with red caps upon their heads. The galleries were filled with... | |
 | 1836 - 564 pages
...My vanity was exalted to so high a pitch, that I fancied myself a personage of sufficient importance to attract the notice of the crowd which covered the...anxiety to arrive at the popular Society. In a vast room, which admitted very little light, were seated the members of the Society, all of them with red... | |
 | Charles Edwards Lester, Edwin Williams - 1853 - 726 pages
...landed in the evening. Great was our anxiety to arrive at the place of meeting of the popular club. In a vast saloon, which admitted very little light, were seated the members of the club, with red caps on their heads. The galleries were filled with noisy women. The... | |
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I fancied myself a personage of sufficient importance, who could not fail to attract the notice of the crowd which covered the port of Marseilles, where we landed in the evening. We scarcely allowed ourselves a moment of repose, so great was our anxiety... 