 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1845 - 632 pages
...Oh ! what slices of bread and butter I have seen him eat there, and hunches of bread and cheese big enough for a ploughman. He used to say that, whenever...him. It was enough to kill a man — it was murder !' — Ib., pp. 64—66. The following passage shows how easily and how well he could enter into the... | |
 | Lady Hester Stanhope - 1845 - 400 pages
...Oh ! what slices of bread and butter I have seen him eat there, and hunches of bread and cheese big enough for a ploughman. He used to say that, whenever...him. It was enough to kill a man — it was murder !" Lady Hester reverted to Walmer, and went on, after musing a little, thus — " I remember once what... | |
 | 1845 - 606 pages
...up, and so unnatural." Ah, doctor! in town, during the sitting of parliament, what a life was bis! Roused from his sleep (for he was a good sleeper)...him. It was enough to kill a man — it was murder !' — Ib., pp. 64—66. The following passage shows how easily and how well he could enter into the... | |
 | William Haig Miller - 1851 - 142 pages
...for a hot supper for two or three hours more, to talk over what was to be done next day; and wine — and wine — and wine. Scarcely up next morning, when,...door from two till sunset, waiting for him. It was murder." Such was the private life of a prime minister, whose position was the object of envy to numbers.... | |
 | William Haig Miller - 1884 - 136 pages
...be done next day ; and wine — and wine — and wine. Scarcely up next morning, when, tat-tat- tat, twenty or thirty people, one after another, and the...door from two till sunset, waiting for him. It was murder." Such was the private life of a prime minister, whose position was the object of envy to numbers.... | |
 | John Holland Rose - 1911 - 654 pages
...usual credibility : " Ah doctor," she said in her Lebanon days, " what a life was his ! Roused from sleep (for he was a good sleeper) with a despatch...him. It was enough to kill a man — it was murder." ' One who knew Pitt well gave wise advice to his secretary, William Dacre Adams. " Attend to your meals... | |
 | John Holland Rose - 1914 - 638 pages
...to talk over what was to be done next day: — and wine, and wine. Scarcely up next morning, when 1 tat-tat-tat,' twenty or thirty people one after another,...him. It was enough to kill a man — it was murder." ' One who knew Pitt well gave wise advice to his secretary, William Dacre Adams. " Attend to your meals... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1845 - 610 pages
...little bottle of cordial confection in his pocket, off to the House until three or four in the morning j then home to a hot supper for two or three hours more,...him. It was enough to kill a man — it was murder!" — Ib., pp. 64 — '66. The following passage shows how easily and how well he could enter into the... | |
 | James Anthony Froude, John Tulloch - 1845 - 792 pages
...what was to be done next clay ; and wine, and wine ! Scarcely up next morning when tat-tat-tat —the twenty or thirty people, one after another, and the...the door, from two till sunset, waiting for him. It WM enough to kill a man—it «•as murder !'' This picture of the fulfilment of an ambitious man's... | |
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Ah, doctor ! in town, during the sitting of parliament, what a life was his! Roused from his sleep (for he was a good sleeper) with a despatch from Lord Melville ; — then down to Windsor ; then, if he had half an hour to spare, trying to swallow something... 