 Windsor; then, if he had half an hour to spare, trying to swallow something : — Mr. Adams with a paper, Mr. Long with another ; then Mr. Rose : then, with a little bottle of cordial confection in his pocket, off to the House until three or four in the...  The Quarterly Review - Página 451editado por - 1845Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | 1843 - 572 páginas
...little bottle of cordial confection in his pocket, off to the House until three or four in the morning; then home to a hot supper for two or three hours more,...him. It was enough to kill a man — it was murder !" " When we were at Walmer, it is incredible what a deal I got through in the day. Mr. Pitt was pleased... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1845 - 632 páginas
...little bottle of cordial confection in his pocket, off to the House until three or four in the morning; then home to a hot supper for two or three hours more,...enough to kill a man — it was murder !' — Ib., pp. 64—66. The following passage shows how easily and how well he could enter into the most ordinary... | |
 | Lady Hester Stanhope - 1845 - 400 páginas
...little bottle of cordial confection in his pocket, off to the House until three or four in the morning ; then home to a hot supper for two or three hours more,...him. It was enough to kill a man — it was murder !" Lady Hester reverted to Walmer, and went on, after musing a little, thus — " I remember once what... | |
 | William Haig Miller - 1851 - 142 páginas
...cordial confection in his pocket, off to the house until three or four in the morning. Then home for a hot supper for two or three hours more, to talk...what was to be done next day; and wine — and wine — and wine. Scarcely up next morning, when, tat-tat-tat, twenty or thirty people, one after another,... | |
 | William Haig Miller - 1884 - 136 páginas
...cordial confection in his pocket, off to the House until three or four in the morning. Then home for a hot supper for two or three hour.s more, to talk...what was to be done next day ; and wine — and wine — and wine. Scarcely up next morning, when, tat-tat- tat, twenty or thirty people, one after another,... | |
 | John Holland Rose - 1911 - 654 páginas
...little bottle of cordial confection in his pocket, off to the House until three or four in the morning; then home to a hot supper for two or three hours more,...him. It was enough to kill a man — it was murder." ' One who knew Pitt well gave wise advice to his secretary, William Dacre Adams. " Attend to your meals... | |
 | John Holland Rose - 1914 - 638 páginas
...little bottle of cordial confection in his pocket, off to the House until three or four in the morning ; then home to a hot supper for two or three hours more,...and wine, and wine. Scarcely up next morning, when 1 tat-tat-tat,' twenty or thirty people one after another, and the horses walking before the door from... | |
 | James Anthony Froude, John Tulloch - 1845 - 792 páginas
...what was to be done next clay ; and wine, and wine ! Scarcely up next morning when tat-tat-tat —the twenty or thirty people, one after another, and the...the door, from two till sunset, waiting for him. It WM enough to kill a man—it «•as murder !'' This picture of the fulfilment of an ambitious man's... | |
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