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Quote from Literature / Travel Writing
Category: Arts and Entertainment > Books and Literature Asked by: jeffcowie-ga List Price: $5.00 |
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23 Dec 2005 10:11 PST
Expires: 22 Jan 2006 10:11 PST Question ID: 609269 |
An English writer having the best of times said: ?My eyes ached, and my head grew giddy as novelty, novelty, novelty, nothing but strange and striking things came swarming before me.? Who was he, and which city was he describing? |
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Re: Quote from Literature / Travel Writing
Answered By: juggler-ga on 23 Dec 2005 10:29 PST Rated: |
Hello. The author was Charles Dickens. He wrote it in a letter to Count D'Orsay in 1844. The city was Paris. Source: Google Books, "365 Travel: A Daily Book of Journeys, Meditations, and Adventures" http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&hl=en&id=PJYFG0Qiu6QC&pg=PA261&lpg=PA261&dq=%22giddy+as+novelty&prev=http://books.google.com/books%3Fq%3D%2522giddy%2Bas%2Bnovelty&sig=l6aI5PC5UUtETj6kldYzQJYWHH8 ------- search strategy: google books: "giddy as novelty" I hope this helps. |
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Many thanks. I've never used google books before. thanks for the tip |
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