 | 1902 - 400 էջ
...wish you had arrived a little sooner! Why, it isn'ta fortnight since I destroyed several baskets full of letters and papers in order to clear a small chamber...partridges which I wish to bring up alive ; and as to Shakespeare, why, there were many bundles with his name wrote upon them. Why, it was in this very fireplace... | |
 | 1902 - 618 էջ
...wish you had arrived a little sooner 1 Why, it isn'ta fortnight since I destroyed several baskets full of letters and papers in order to clear a small chamber...partridges which I wish to bring up alive ; and as to Shakespeare, why, there were many bundles with his name wrote upon them. Why, it was in this very fireplace... | |
 | 1921 - 930 էջ
...burned several basketsful of old letters and papers, many with Shakespeare's name 'wrote upon them,' 'in order to clear a small chamber for some young partridges which I wish to bring up alive.' Apparently, this cock-and-bull story suggested to the younger Ireland the exploit that made his name... | |
 | Sir John Collings Squire - 1921 - 730 էջ
...burned several basketsful of old letters and papers, many with Shakespeare's name " wrote upon them," " in order to clear a small chamber for some young partridges which I wish to bring up alive."* Apparently this cock-and-bull story suggested to the younger Ireland the exploit that made his name... | |
 | Sir John Collings Squire - 1921 - 730 էջ
...burned several basketsful of old letters and papers, many with Shakespeare's name " wrote upon them," " in order to clear a small chamber for some young partridges which I wish to bring up alive."* Apparently this cock-and-bull story suggested to the younger Ireland the exploit that made his name... | |
 | Russell A. Fraser - 568 էջ
...Quizzing the gentleman-farmer who occupied the manor, he was appalled to hear this Williams say: "By God, I wish you had arrived a little sooner! why, it isn'ta...partridges which I wish to bring up alive: and as to Shakespeare, why there were many bundles with his name wrote upon them." Pitched on the hearth —... | |
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I wish you had arrived a little sooner! Why, it isn'ta fortnight since I destroyed several baskets-full of letters and papers, in order to clear a small chamber for some young partridges which I wish to bring up alive : and as to Shakespeare, why there... 