 Here I wrote and read in fine weather, sometimes under an awning. In autumn my trellises were hung with scarlet runners, which added to the flowery investment. I used to shut my eyes in my arm-chair, and affect to think myself hundreds of miles off.  Eliza Cook's journal - Page 20Full view - About this book
 | Leigh Hunt - 1828 - 464 pages
...and wood. Here I wrote and read in fine weather, sometimes under an awning. In autumn, my trelises were hung with scarlet runners, which added to the...A wicket out of the garden led into the large one belonging to the prison. The latter was * Thomas Moore ; with whom and Lord Byron I was too angry,... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1828 - 626 pages
...belonging to the neighbouring ward. This I shut in with green pailings, &c. &c. &c. Here I write and read, in fine weather, sometimes under an awning....scarlet runners, which added to the flowery investment!' — pp. 424., 5. We presume the turnkeys make a pretty penny by showing the spot where the great Mr.... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1828 - 608 pages
...belonging to the neighbouring ward. This I shut in with green pailings, &c. &e. &c. Here I write and read, in fine weather, sometimes under an awning....scarlet runners, which added to the flowery investment !' — pp. 424, 5. We presume the turnkeys make a pretty penny by showing die spot where the great... | |
 | 1828 - 598 pages
...belonging to the neighbouring ward. This I shut in with green pailings, &c. &c. &c. Here I write and read, in fine weather, sometimes under an awning....trellises were hung with scarlet runners, which added to thejloivery investment !' — pp. 424, 5. AVe presume the turnkeys make a pretty penny by showing the... | |
 | 1828 - 608 pages
...belonging to the neighbouring ward. This I shut in with green pailings, &c. &c. &c. Here I write and read, in fine weather, sometimes under an awning....trellises were hung with scarlet runners, which added to thejloioery investment !' — pp. 424, 5. • \Ve presume the turnkeys make a pretty penny by showing... | |
 | 1860 - 722 pages
...Moore, who came to see me with Lord Byron, told me he had scon no such heart's-ease. Here I wrote and read in fine weather, sometimes under an awning. In autumn my trellises were covered with scarlet runners, which added to the flowery investment. I used to shut my eyes in my arm... | |
 | 1850 - 602 pages
...BALDI. . ' My little garden, To me thou'rt vineyard, field, and meadow, and wood.' Here ' I wrote and read in fine weather, sometimes under an awning. In...affect to think myself hundreds of miles off." But this was nothing. Any " decorator might have done as much ; but Leigh Hunt, by dint of imagination,... | |
 | 1892 - 848 pages
...blossoms over the wall of lattice-work that divided it from the neighboring yard. " Here," he says, " I shut my eyes in my armchair, and affect to think myself hundreds of miles away." Leigh Hunt's eldest daughter was born in prison. " Never shall I forget my sensations when she... | |
 | George Hooker Colton, James Davenport Whelpley - 1846 - 724 pages
...prato.' BALM. My little garden, To me thou'rt vineyard, field, and meadow, and wood. Here I wrote and read in fine weather, sometimes under an awning. In...think myself hundreds of miles off But my triumph was issuing forth of a morning. A wicket out of the garden led into the large one belonging to the prison... | |
 | 1846 - 444 pages
...to get a pudding the second year. As to my flowers they were allowed to be perfect Here I wrote and read in fine weather, sometimes under an awning. In...and affect to think myself hundreds of miles off." Delightful picture this, is is not? And in a prison too! Why it is the very dream of poetry personified.... | |
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