 ... set something on fire, the commonest incident being for some one to look up from work or book to say casually, " Papa, your hair is on fire," of which a calm, " Is it, my love ? " and a hand rubbing out the blaze, was all the notice taken.  Great Men at Play - Side 326af Thomas Firminger Thiselton Dyer - 1889Fuld visning - Om denne bog
 | Alexander Hay Japp - 1877 - 418 sider
...were exceptions on which he didn't set something on fire, the commonest incident being for some one to look up from work or book to say casually, ' Papa,...of smoke to announce that Mr. de Quincey's room, by tl time on the point of being 'snowed up,' was on fi Some important papers and a little money were... | |
 | 1877 - 664 sider
...people to live with — the commonest incident in his household at night being the casual remark, " Papa, your hair is on fire ; " of which a calm " Is...hand rubbing out the blaze, was all the notice taken. So passed the days and nights, and months and years, of Thomas De Quincey, opiumeater, scholar, author,... | |
 | Robert Cochrane (miscellaneous writer) - 1878 - 570 sider
...were exceptions on which he didn't set something on fire, the commonest incident being for some one e fewest; but, unlike Mr Disraeli's, they always seem...of the right hand, and the sentence is emphasised. barst of smoke, to announce that Mr De Quincey's room, by this time on the point of being ' snowed... | |
 | Robert Cochrane (miscellaneous writer.) - 1879 - 236 sider
...were exceptions on which he didn't set something on fire, the commonest incident being for some one to look up from work or book to say casually, " Papa,...important papers and a little money were secured, and then they descended to the scene of action, to find that a hard frost had taken away all chance... | |
 | David Masson - 1881 - 222 sider
...from book or " work to say casually, Papa, your hair is on fire; of " which a calm Is it, my Jove ? and a hand rubbing out " the blaze was all the notice taken." The music, which was so frequently a part of those indoor pleasures, and the variations of the character... | |
 | David Masson - 1882 - 230 sider
...did not set something on fire, the commonest incident being for some one to look up from book or work to say casually, Papa, your hair is on fire; of which...hand rubbing out the blaze was all the notice taken." The music, which was so frequently a part of those in-door pleasures, and the variations of the character... | |
 | Edward Tuckerman Mason - 1884 - 376 sider
...were exceptions on which he didn't set something on fire, the commonest incident being for some one to look up from work or book to say casually, " Papa,...important papers and a little money were secured, and then they descended to the scene of action to find that a hard frost had taken away all chance... | |
 | Edward Tuckerman Mason - 1885 - 378 sider
...were exceptions on which he didn't set something on fire, the commonest incident being for some one to look up from work or book to say casually, " Papa,...important papers and a little money were secured, and then they descended to the scene of action to find that a hard frost had taken away all chance... | |
 | Kate Sanborn - 1886 - 230 sider
...were exceptions on which he didn't set something on fire, the commonest incident being for some one to look up from work or book to say casually, ' Papa,...hand rubbing out the blaze was all the notice taken." HUopium Mathews, in his "Hours with Men and Books," gives a vivid picture of De Quincey's opium dreams.... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - 1892 - 188 sider
...did not set something on fire, the commonest incident being for some one to look up from book or work to say casually,' Papa, your hair is on fire;' of...hand rubbing out the blaze was all the notice taken." " De Quincey has fully defined his own position and claim to distinction in the preface to his collected... | |
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