 Late in 1833 he dropped the moving legend of Mr. Minns "into a dark letter-box, in a dark office, up a dark court in Fleet Street." In January, 1834, Mr. Minns appeared in the " Old Monthly Magazine,  Sketches by Bozby Charles Dickens - 1908 - 486 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Clarence Howard Clark - Private libraries - 1888 - 606 pages
..."Mr. Minns and his Cousin." This was his " first effusion dropped stealthily one evening at twilight into a dark " letter-box, in a dark office, up a dark court in Fleet Street. When it appeared in " all the glory of print," he walked down to Westminster Hall, and " how well I... | |
 | Authors, English - 1890 - 330 pages
...described how, one evening at twilight, he stealthily and with fear and trembling dropped the paper into a dark letter-box in a dark office up a dark court in Fleet Street, and with what agitation he bought and opened the next number of the magazine, and actually saw himself... | |
 | Sarah Knowles Bolton - Authors, English - 1890 - 488 pages
...preface to " Pickwick," it was "dropped stealthily one evening at twilight, with fear and trembling, into a dark letter-box, in a dark office, up a dark court in Fleet Street." It was accepted, and " appeared in all the glory of print" in the Old Monthly Magazine on this first... | |
 | William Richard Hughes - England - 1891 - 480 pages
...sketch, Airs. Joseph Porter over t/te Way, " stealthily one evening at twilight, with fear and trembling, into a dark letter-box in a dark office up a dark court in Fleet Street; and he has told his agitation when it appeared in all the glory of print:—' On which occasion I walked... | |
 | Percy Fitzgerald - 1891 - 410 pages
...in which my first effusion —dropped stealthily one evening at twilight, with fear, and trembling, into a dark letter-box, in a dark office, up a dark court in Fleet Street—appeared in all the glory of print; on which memorable occasion (how well I recollect it)... | |
 | Percy Fitzgerald - 1891 - 408 pages
...in which my first effusion —dropped stealthily one evening at twilight, with fear, and trembling, into a dark letter-box, in a dark office, up a dark court in Fleet Street—appeared in all the glory of print; on which memorable occasion (how well I recollect it)... | |
 | Percy Fitzgerald - 1891 - 392 pages
...in which my first effusion —dropped stealthily one evening at twilight, with fear, and trembling, into a dark letter-box, in a dark office, up a dark court in Fleet Street—appeared in all the glory of print; on which memorable occasion (how well I recollect it)... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1894 - 556 pages
...in which my first effusion — dropped stealthily one evening at twilight, with fear and trembling, into a dark letterbox, in a dark office, up a dark court in Fleet Street — appeared in all the glory of print; on which memorable occasion — how well I recollect it! —... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1894 - 546 pages
...in which my first effusion — dropped stealthily one evening at twilight, with fear and trembling, into a dark letterbox, in a dark office, up a dark court in Fleet Street — appeared in all the glory of print; on which memorable occasion — how well I recollect it! —... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1897 - 574 pages
...called MR. MINNS AND HIS COUSIN—dropped stealthily one evening at twilight, with fear and trembling, into a dark letter-box, in a dark office, up a dark court in Fleet Street—appeared in all the glory of print; on which occasion I walked down to Westminster Hall, and... | |
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