 | Alexander Andrews - English newspapers - 1859 - 382 pages
...awning. In autumn my trellises were hung with scarlet runners, which added to the flowery investments. I used to shut my eyes in my arm-chair, and affect to think myself hundreds of miles off." * And thus he vvhiled away the term of his imprisonment; and in this easy, luxurious way, did penance... | |
 | Methodist Church - 1860 - 716 pages
...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 chair, and affect to think myself hundreds of miles off." Leigh Hunt was beguiled of the solitude... | |
 | George Augustus Sala, Edmund Yates - English periodicals - 1896 - 640 pages
...weather, sometimes under an a^ni^S- ^ n antnnm my trellises were hung with scarlet-runners, wlxjo,^ a3Ac4 to the flowery investment. I used to shut my eyes in my affect to think myself hundreds of miles away." So complacent a temper sweetens adversity; Hunt had... | |
 | James Grant - English newspapers - 1871 - 584 pages
...horticulture; there I wrote and read in fine weather, sometimes under an awning. In autumn my trellises were hung with scarlet runners, which added to the...a morning. A wicket out of the garden led into the larger one belonging to the prison. The latter was only for vegetables, but it contained a cherry-tree,... | |
 | English prose literature - 1872 - 556 pages
...meadow.'* 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...investment. I used to shut my eyes in my arm-chair, and affected to think myself hundreds of miles off. But my triumph was in issuing forth of a morning. A... | |
 | Samuel Smiles - Biography - 1874 - 550 pages
...heart's-ease. 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 m/ eyes in my arm-chair, and affect to think myself hundreds of miles off. " But my triumph was in... | |
 | Charles Bruce (writer of tales.) - 1876 - 244 pages
...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 affected to think myself hundreds of miles off. But my triumph was in issuing forth of a morning. A... | |
 | Robert Chambers - English literature - 1879 - 428 pages
...in fine weather, sometimes under an awning. In antumn,' my trellises were hung with scarlet-runners, which added to the flowery investment. I used to shut...affect to think myself hundreds of miles off. But my trinmph was in issuing forth of a morning. A wicket out of the garden led into the large one belonging... | |
 | Marcius Willson - Readers - 1881 - 492 pages
...hearts-ease. ' 3. " 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...arm-chair, and affect to think myself hundreds of miles away. A wicket out of the garden led into the large one belonging to the prison. The latter was only... | |
 | Marcius Willson - Readers - 1881 - 488 pages
...hearts-ease. 3. " 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...arm-chair, and affect to think myself hundreds of miles away. A wicket out of the gar den led into the large one belonging to the prison. The latter was only... | |
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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. 
