 I see it now, that homely-looking, almost uncomfortable room, fronting the street, and barely furnished with a simple white bed, at the foot of which was a small, old, oblongshaped, sort of dressing-table, quite covered with a common worn writing-desk,...  A Walk from London to Fulham - Page 33by Thomas Crofton Croker - 1860 - 256 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Laman Blanchard - Authors, English - 1841 - 276 pages
...dressing-table, quite covered with a common worn writing-desk heaped with papers, while some strewed the ground, the table being too small for aught besides the desk; a little high-backed cane-chair which gave you any idea rather than that of comfort—a few books scattered about completed... | |
 | Anne Katharine Curteis Elwood - Authors, English - 1843 - 368 pages
...dressing-table, quite covered with a common worn writing-desk, heaped with papers, while some strewed the ground, the table being too small for aught besides...little highbacked cane chair, which gave you any idea but that of comfort, and a few books scattered about, completed the author's paraphernalia." Landon's... | |
 | Anne Katharine Curteis Elwood - Authors, English - 1845 - 126 pages
...dressing-table, quite eovered with a eommon worn writing-desk, heaped with papers, while some strewed the ground, the table being too small for aught besides the desk. A little high-baeked eane ehair, whieh gave you any idea but that of eomfort, and a few books seattered about,... | |
 | William Howitt - Literary landmarks - 1847 - 566 pages
...with papers, while some strewed the ground, the table being too small for aught beside the desk ; a highbacked cane chair, which gave you any idea rather...scattered about completed the author's paraphernalia." Certainly one would have imagined a girl's school in London just the last place that a poet would have... | |
 | Willis's Current notes - 1852 - 504 pages
...desk, heaped with papers, while some strewed the ground, the table beinç too small for aught besides a desk ; a little high-backed cane chair which gave...scattered about completed the author's paraphernalia." In this attic did the muse of LEL dream of and describe, music, moonlight, and roses, and " apostrophise... | |
 | George Willis - 1852 - 114 pages
...desk, heaped with papers, while some strewed the ground, the table being' too small for aught besides a desk ; a little high-backed cane chair which gave...scattered about completed the author's paraphernalia." In this- attic did the muse of LEL dream of and describe, music, moonlight, and roses, and " apostrophise... | |
 | Sarah Josepha Buell Hale - Women - 1853 - 946 pages
...dressing-table, quite covered with a common worn writing-desk, heaped with papers, while some strewed the ground, the table being too small for aught besides...little highbacked cane chair, which gave you any idea but that of comfort, and a few books scattered about, completed the author's paraphernalia." " Miss... | |
 | Sarah Josepha Buell Hale - 1857 - 810 pages
...dressing-table, quite covered with a common worn writing-desk, heaped with papers, while some strewed the ground, the table being too small for aught besides...little highbacked cane chair, which gave you any idea but that of comfort, and a few books scattered about, completed the author's paraphernalia." "Miss... | |
 | Henry Gardiner Adams - Women - 1857 - 1030 pages
...writing-desk, heaped with papers, while some strewed the grooud, the table being too small for anght besides the desk. A little highbacked cane chair, which gave you any idea but that of comfort, and a few books scattered about, completed the anthor's paraphernalia." "Miss... | |
 | Thomas Crofton Croker - 1860 - 264 pages
...furnished, but it was her invariable habit to write in her bed-room. I see it now, that homely-looking, almost uncomfortable room, fronting the street, and...Pavilion." From the back a flight of steps descended into a small garden. C In this attic did the muse of LEL dream of and describe music, moonlight, and roses,... | |
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