 | Robert Shelton Mackenzie - 1871 - 520 oldal
...Dryden, Gay, and Pope, with brief quotations by way of illustration, William Laidlaw whispered, " Gude preserve us ! this is a very superior occasion ! Eh,...Shakspeare and Bacon ever met to screw ilk other up ? " At that time, — it was fifty years since, — no adventurous speculator had broached the theory,... | |
 | Thomas Arnold - 1873 - 590 oldal
...At last Laidlaw broke out with — " Glide preserve us ; this is a very superior occasion! Eh, sirs! I wonder if Shakspeare and Bacon ever met to screw ilk other up ! " In 1826 occurred the crash of Scott's fortunes, through the failure of the houses of Constable... | |
 | Maude Gillette Phillips - 1885 - 648 oldal
...talk ' had kept the circle round the fire until long after the usual bedtime of Abbotsford, ' Gude preserve us ! this is a very superior occasion ! Eh,...Shakspeare and Bacon ever met to screw ilk other up ?' " The Friday Club. — This famous society, instituted in 1803 in imitation of Dr. Johnson's at... | |
 | Maude Gillette Phillips - 1885 - 614 oldal
...talk ' had kept the circle round the fire until long after the usual bedtime of Abbotsford, ' Gude preserve us ! this is a very superior occasion ! Eh,...Shakspeare and Bacon ever met to screw ilk other up?' " The Fr1day Club. — This famous society, instituted in 1803 in imitation of Dr. Johnson's at the... | |
 | Thomas Edward Thorpe - 1896 - 256 oldal
...talk ' had kept the circle round the fire until long after the usual bed-time of Abbotsford — ' Gude preserve us ! This is a very superior occasion ! Eh,...Shakspeare and Bacon ever met to screw ilk other up ?'" In spite of the many calls upon his time and energies entailed by his duties as President, he still... | |
 | Willmott Willmott-Dixon - 1901 - 394 oldal
...rapt talk ' had kept the circle round the fire long after the usual bedtime of Abbotsford — ' Gude preserve us ! this is a very superior occasion ! Eh,...Shakspeare and Bacon ever met to screw ilk other up ? '" In 1820 Sir Humphry Davy was elected President of the Royal Society, and held that distinguished... | |
 | Rolf Boldrewood - 1905 - 484 oldal
...round the fire long after the usual bedtime at Abbotsford, I remember Laidlaw whispering to me, " Gude preserve us ! this is a very superior occasion ! Eh,...added, cocking his eye like a bird, " I wonder if Shakespeare and Bacon ever met to screw ilk other up ? " ' The other " superior occasion " came later... | |
 | Florence Anne MacCunn - 1909 - 488 oldal
...habitual talk nor his prose writings suggest a notion. I remember Willie Laidlaw whispering to me, ' Gude preserve us ! this is a very superior occasion ! Eh, sirs,' he added, cocking up his eye like a bird, ' I wonder if Shakespeare and Bacon ever met to screw each other up.'" On leaving... | |
 | William Harris Elson, Christine M. Keck - 1922 - 676 oldal
...very superior occasion! Eh, sirs!" he added, cocking his eye like a bird, "I wonder if Shakespeare and Bacon ever met to screw ilk other up?" Since I...subject of Sir Walter's autumnal diversions in these his latter years, I may as well notice here two annual festivals, when sport was made his pretext for assembling... | |
 | Edwin Greenlaw, William Harris Elson, Christine M. Keck - 1922 - 600 oldal
...circle round the fire until long after the usual bedtime of Abbotsford, "Gude preserve us! this 60 is a very superior occasion! Eh, sirs!" he added, cocking his eye like a bird, "I wonder if Shakespeare and Bacon ever met to screw ilk other up?" Since I have touched on the subject of Sir Walter's... | |
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Laidlaw whispering to me, one night, when their " rapt talk " had kept the circle round the fire until long after the usual bedtime of Abbotsford — " Gude preserve us ! this is a very superior occasion ! Eh, sirs... 
