 | Books - 1825 - 468 pages
...Giorgio enter a fruitshop ; he proceeded to eat peaches and nectarines, and at last took a pine.apple, and deliberately sliced and ate that. This completed...to lounge about in fruit-shops, and eat peaches and pine-apples as well as Signor St. Giorgio. I answered myself by promising that I would study hard ;... | |
 | Music - 1825 - 590 pages
...Giorgio enter a fruit-shop ; he proceeded to eat peaches and necta-rines, and at last took a pine-apple, and deliberately sliced and ate that. This completed...to lounge about in fruit-shops, and eat peaches and pineapples, as well as Signor St. Giorgio. I answered myself by promising that I would study hard,... | |
 | Ralph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths - Periodicals - 1825 - 464 pages
...Giorgio enter a fruitsbop; he proceeded to eat peaches and nectarines, and at last took a pine-apple, and deliberately sliced and ate that. This completed...longing, and while my mouth watered, I asked myself wky, if I assiduously studied music, I should not be able to earn money enough to lounge about in fruit-shops,... | |
 | Michael Kelly, Theodore Edward Hook - Actors - 1826 - 384 pages
...a piece of good fortune of which he was very deserving, and I believe is still living , to enjoy. f Trifling occurrences during childhood often influence...promising that I would study hard; and I really did so;—and, trifling as this little anecdote may appear, I firmly believe it was the chief cause of... | |
 | Great Britain - 1834 - 614 pages
...peaches and nectarines ; and, at last, took a pineapple, and deliberately sliced it, and ate also. This completed my longing ; and, while my mouth watered,...not be able to earn money enough to lounge about in fruit shops, and eat peaches and pine-apple« as^well as Signer Giorgio ? I answered myself, by promising... | |
 | Great Britain - 1834 - 730 pages
...and deliberately sliced it, and ate also. This completed my longing; and, while my mouth watered, 1 asked myself why, if I assiduously studied music,...not be able to earn money enough to lounge about in fruit shops, and eat peaches and pine-apples as well as Signor Giorgio ? I answered myself, by promising... | |
 | John Sullivan Dwight - Music - 1853 - 424 pages
...future lives. I recollect once, when returning from a visit to a relation of my mother's, I saw Sig. St. Giorgio enter a fruit-shop ; he proceeded to eat...fruitshops, and eat peaches and pine apples, as well as Signer St. Giorgio. I answered myself by promising that I would study hard ; and I really did so ;... | |
 | Carl Van Vechten - Music - 1918 - 356 pages
...peaches, nectarines, and a pineapple, was really what stimulated him to study for a career on the stage. " While my mouth watered, I asked myself why, if I assiduously...to lounge about in fruit-shops, and eat peaches and pineapples as well as Signor St. Giorgio. . . ." Lillian Russell is a good cook. I can recommend her... | |
 | Carl Van Vechten - Music - 1918 - 358 pages
...peaches, nectarines, and a pineapple, was really what stimulated him to study for a career on the stage. " While my mouth watered, I asked myself why, if I assiduously...music, I should not be able to earn money enough to [ 159 ] lounge about in fruit-shops, and eat peaches and pineapples as well as Signer St. Giorgio.... | |
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... as well as Signor St. Giorgio. I answered myself by promising that I would study hard; and I really did so; — and, trifling as this little anecdote may appear, I firmly believe it was the chief cause of my serious resolution to follow up music as... 