 I had lost somehow or other, left threepence in my pocket. With this for my whole fortune, I was trudging through Richmond in my blue smockfrock, and my red garters tied under my knees, when, staring about me, my eye fell upon a little book in a bookseller's...  Cobbett's Political Register - Page 23edited by - 1820Full view - About this book
 | Henry Coppée - Literature - 1895 - 552 pages
...road, and a halfpenny which I had lost somehow or other, left threepence in my pocket. With this for my whole fortune, I was trudging through Richmond in...outside of which was written : "Tale of a Tub. Price, 474 475 3d." The title was so odd that my curiosity was excited. I had the threepence, but then I could... | |
 | Orison Swett Marden - 1896 - 490 pages
...in the King's Gardens at Kew. " When my little fortune had been reduced to threepence," he says, " I was trudging through Richmond in my blue smock-frock...garters tied under my knees, when, staring about me, my eyes fell upon a little book in a bookseller's window, on the outside of which was written, 'The Tale... | |
 | Orison Swett Marden - Success - 1896 - 488 pages
...in the King's Gardens at Kew. " When my little fortune had been reduced to threepence," he says, " I was trudging through Richmond in my blue smock-frock...garters tied under my knees, when, staring about me, my eyes fell upon a little book in a bookseller's window, on the outside of which was written, 'The Tale... | |
 | John Dennis - 1896 - 276 pages
...his boyhood by William Cobbett is worth recording : ' I was trudging through Richmond,' he writes, ' in my blue smock-frock, and my red garters tied under my knees, when, staring about me, my eyes fell upon a little book in a bookseller's window, on the outside of which was written, "Tale of... | |
 | Henry Coppée - Literature - 1900 - 588 pages
...road, and a halfpenny which I had lost somehow or other, left threepence in my pocket. With this for my whole fortune, I was trudging through Richmond in...little book in a bookseller's window, on the outside oí which was written : "Tale of a Tub. Price, 3d." The title was so odd that my curiosity was excited.... | |
 | Orison Swett Marden - Character - 1900 - 282 pages
...in the King's Gardens at Kew. " When my little fortune had been reduced to threepence," he says, " I was trudging through Richmond in my blue smock-frock...garters tied under my knees, when, staring about me, my eyes fell upon a little book in a bookseller's window, on the outside of which was written, ' The Tale... | |
 | John Dennis - English literature - 1906 - 286 pages
...his boyhood by William Cobbett is worth recording : ' I was trudging through Eichmond,' he writes, ' in my blue smock-frock, and my red garters tied under my knees, when, staring about me, my eyes fell upon a little book in a bookseller's window, on the outside of which was written, " Tale... | |
 | John Dennis - English literature - 1908 - 288 pages
...his boyhood by William Cobbett is worth recording : ' I was trudging through Richmond,' he writes, ' in my blue smock-frock, and my red garters tied under my knees, when, staring about me, my eyes fell upon a little book in a bookseller's window, on the outside of which was written, " Tale... | |
 | Robert Waters - Self-culture - 1909 - 384 pages
...and one-half penny that I had lost somehow or other, left threepence in my pocket. With this for my whole fortune, I was trudging through Richmond in...garters tied under my knees, when, staring about me, my eyes fell upon a little book in a bookseller's window, on the outside of which was written, ' THE TALE... | |
 | Charles Wells Moulton - American literature - 1910 - 616 pages
...1804, Essays Illustrative of the Tattler, Spectator and Guardian, vol. ill, p. 143. With this for my whole fortune, I was trudging through Richmond in...garters tied under my knees, when, staring about me, my eyes fell upon a little book in a bookseller's window, on the outside of which was written "The Tale... | |
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