 When we retired to tea we found the Comptroller. In introducing him to Wordsworth I forgot to say who he was. After a little time the Comptroller looked down, looked up, and said to Wordsworth, "Don't you think, sir, Milton was a great genius?" Keats...  A century of anecdote from 1760 to 1860 - Page 79by John Timbs - 1864Full view - About this book
 | Biographical magazine - 1853 - 586 pages
...comptroller. In introducing him to Wordsworth, I forgot to say who he was. After a little time the comptroller looked down, looked up, and said to Wordsworth, '...sir, Milton was a great genius ? ' Keats looked at me ; Wordsworth looked at the comptroller. Lamb, who was dozing by the fire, turned round and said,... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele - American periodicals - 1853 - 610 pages
...comptroller. In introducing him to Wordsworth, 1 forgot to say who he was. After a little time the comptroller looked down, looked up, and said to Wordsworth, "...sir, Milton was a great genius ?" Keats looked at me ; Wordsworth looked at the comptroller. Lamb, who was dozing by the fire, turned round and said,... | |
 | Benjamin Robert Haydon - Artists - 1853 - 446 pages
...comptroller. In introducing him to Wordsworth I forgot to say who he was. After a little time the comptroller looked down, looked up and said to Wordsworth, " Don't...sir, Milton was a great genius ?" Keats looked at me, Wordsworth looked at the comptroller. Lamb who was dozing by the fire turned round and said, "... | |
 | Benjamin Robert Haydon - Painters - 1853 - 568 pages
...comptroller. In introducing him to Wordsworth I forgot to say who he was. After a little time the comptroller looked down, looked up, and said to Wordsworth, "...think, sir, Milton was a great genius?" Keats looked at me, Wordsworth looked at the comptroller. Lamb, who was dozing by the fire, turned round and said,... | |
 | William Keddie - Literature - 1854 - 400 pages
...comptroller. In introducing him to Wordsworth I forgot to say who he was. After a little time the comptroller looked down, looked up, and said to Wordsworth, " Don't you think, sir, Milton was a great genius f Keats looked at me, Wordsworth looked at the comptroller. Lamb, who was dozing by the fire, turned... | |
 | 1856 - 864 pages
...comptroller. In introducing him to Wordsworth, I forgot to say who he was. After a little time the comptroller looked down, looked up, and said to Wordsworth, '...sir, Milton was a great genius ? ' Keats looked at me ; Wordsworth looked at the comptroller. Lamb, who was dozing by the lire, turned round and said,... | |
 | Public school series - 1874 - 408 pages
...Comptroller. In introducing him to Wordsworth I forgot to say who he was. After a little time the Comptroller looked down, looked up, and said to Wordsworth, "...sir, Milton was a great genius ?" Keats looked at me. Wordsworth looked at the Comptroller. Lamb, who was dozing at the fire, turned round and said,... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1876 - 466 pages
...comptroller. In introducing him to Wordsworth I forgot to say who he was. After a little time the comptroller looked down, looked up and said to Wordsworth, 'Don't...think, sir, Milton was a great genius?' Keats looked at me, Wordsworth looked at the comptroller. Lamb who was dozing by the fire turned round and said, '... | |
 | James Hogg, Florence Marryat - English literature - 1882 - 780 pages
...comptroller of stamps, and often had correspondence with Wordsworth. Haydon thought it a liberty, but at last consented ; and when the party retired to tea they...' Don't you think, sir, Milton was a great genius P Keats looked at Haydon, Wordsworth looked at the VOL. XLIL NO. CCXLVIIL Comptroller. Lamb, who was... | |
 | Alfred Ainger - 1882 - 216 pages
...Comptroller. In introducing him to Wordsworth I forgot to say who he was. After a little time the Comptroller looked down, looked up, and said to Wordsworth, '...sir, Milton was a great genius ?' Keats looked at me, Wordsworth looked at the Comptroller. Lamb, who was dozing by the fire, turned round and said,... | |
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