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A Week's Tramp in Dickens-Land: Together with Personal Reminiscences of the ... - Page 18
by William Richard Hughes - 1891 - 432 pages
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1812-1842

John Forster - 1842 - 450 pages
...Cousin, as he afterwards entitled it, but which appeared in the magazine as A Dinner at Poplar Walk) stealthily one evening at twilight, with fear and...dark letter-box in a dark office up a dark court in Fleet-street ; and he has told his a D. loq. agitation when it appeared in all the glory of print....
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The Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art, Volume 13

American literature - 1848 - 614 pages
...which my first effusion — dropped stealthily one evening at twilight, with fear and trembling, in a dark letter-box, in a dark office, up a dark court in Fleet-st. — appeared in all the glory of print ; on which occasion, by-the-by — how well 1 recollect...
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The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, Volume 1

Charles Dickens - English literature - 1847 - 516 pages
...had never seen before or since, my first copy of the Magazine in which my first effusion — dropped stealthily one evening at twilight, with fear and trembling, into a dark letter-box, in a dark oifice, up a dark court in Fleet Street — appeared in all the glory of print ; on which occasion...
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Eclectic Magazine: Foreign Literature, Volume 13

John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1848 - 610 pages
...which my first effusion — dropped stealthily one evening at twilight, with fear anc trembling, in a dark letter-box, in a dark office, up a dark court in Fleet-st. — appeared in all the glory of print ; on which occasion, by-the-by — how well 1 recollect...
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Notes and Queries

Electronic journals - 1912 - 666 pages
...we find Dickens •*' stealthily one evening at twilight, with fear and trembling, dropping a packet into A dark letter-box in a dark office up a dark court in Fleet Street. This was the office of the old Monthly Magazine, and he has tolcl us of his agitation when he purchased...
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The posthumous papers of the Pickwick club

Charles Dickens - 1850 - 508 pages
...had never seen before or since, my first copy of the Magazine in which my first effusion — dropped stealthily one evening at twilight, with fear and...in a dark office, up a dark court in Fleet Street — appeared in all the glory of print ; on which occasion by-the-bye, — how well I recollect it...
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The poetical and prose remains of Edward Marsh Heavisides, ed. by H. Heavisides

Edward Marsh Heavisides - 1850 - 200 pages
...had never seen before or since, my first " copy of the Magazine, in which my first effusion, dropt " stealthily, one evening at twilight, with fear and trembling, " into a dark letter box, in a dark office, up a dark court " in Eleet-street, appeared in all the glory of print—on...
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Eclectic Magazine: Foreign Literature, Volume 22

American periodicals - 1851 - 604 pages
...had never seen before or since, my first copy of the magazine in which my first effusion — dropped stealthily one evening at twilight, with fear and...in a dark office, up a dark court in Fleet street — appeared in all the glory of print ; on which occasion, by the bye — how well I recollect it...
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Chambers's Journal of Popular Literature, Science and Arts, Volume 69

1892 - 916 pages
...gone through the ordeal can fully appreciate the experience. Dickens, when dropping his manuscript stealthily 'one evening at twilight, with fear and...dark office up a dark court in Fleet Street,' and his subsequent agitation ' when it appeared in all the glory of print,' is a striking instance of an...
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Lives of the Illustrious, Volumes 1-2

1856 - 754 pages
...had never leen before or since, my first copy of .he magazine in which my first effusiou — dropped stealthily one evening at twilight, with fear and...in a dark office, up a dark court in Fleet Street — appeared n all the glory of print, on which occasion, by the bye, — how well I recollect it !...
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