Roundabout Papers: To which is Added The Second Funeral of Napoleon : Critical Reviews : The Four Georges : The English Humorists of the Eighteenth Century : Sketches and Travels in LondonEstes and Lauriat, 1882 - 819 pagina's |
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Pagina 6
... natural , healthy appetites , love sweets ; all children , all women , all Eastern people , whose tastes are not corrupted by gluttony and strong drink . " And a plateful of raspberries and cream disap- peared before the philosopher ...
... natural , healthy appetites , love sweets ; all children , all women , all Eastern people , whose tastes are not corrupted by gluttony and strong drink . " And a plateful of raspberries and cream disap- peared before the philosopher ...
Pagina 10
... natural , and was telling the truth . You say you are angry with a man for talk- ing about himself . It is because you yourself are selfish , that that other person's Self does not interest you . Be interested by other people and with ...
... natural , and was telling the truth . You say you are angry with a man for talk- ing about himself . It is because you yourself are selfish , that that other person's Self does not interest you . Be interested by other people and with ...
Pagina 15
... naturally have preferred to restore their good old orders of Saint Louis , Saint Esprit , and Saint Michel ; but France had taken the ribbon of the Legion of Honor so to her heart that no Bourbon sovereign dared to pluck it thence . In ...
... naturally have preferred to restore their good old orders of Saint Louis , Saint Esprit , and Saint Michel ; but France had taken the ribbon of the Legion of Honor so to her heart that no Bourbon sovereign dared to pluck it thence . In ...
Pagina 16
... natural superiors and mine- your and my children's superiors . I read of an alderman kneeling and knighted at court : I see a gold - stick waddling backwards be- fore Majesty in a procession , and if we laugh , don't you suppose the ...
... natural superiors and mine- your and my children's superiors . I read of an alderman kneeling and knighted at court : I see a gold - stick waddling backwards be- fore Majesty in a procession , and if we laugh , don't you suppose the ...
Pagina 32
... naturally to my mind . The imagination easily supplied a gold coach , eight cream - colored horses of your true Pegasus breed , huzzaing multitudes , running footmen , and clanking knights in armor , a chaplain and a sword - bearer with ...
... naturally to my mind . The imagination easily supplied a gold coach , eight cream - colored horses of your true Pegasus breed , huzzaing multitudes , running footmen , and clanking knights in armor , a chaplain and a sword - bearer with ...
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Roundabout Papers: To which is Added The Second Funeral of Napoleon ... William Makepeace Thackeray Volledige weergave - 1886 |
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Populaire passages
Pagina 164 - Soon as the evening shades prevail, The Moon takes up the wondrous tale; And nightly, to the listening Earth, Repeats the story of her birth : Whilst all the stars that round her burn, And all the planets, in their turn, Confirm the tidings as they roll, And spread the truth from pole to pole.
Pagina 226 - Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And without sneering, teach the rest to sneer; Willing to wound, and yet afraid to strike, Just hint a fault and hesitate dislike...
Pagina 292 - In all my wanderings round this world of care, In all my griefs, — and God has given my share, — I still had hopes, my latest hours to crown, Amidst these humble bowers to lay me down ; To husband out life's taper at the close, And keep the flame from wasting by repose...
Pagina 57 - The busy day, the peaceful night, Unfelt, uncounted, glided by ; His frame was firm, his powers were bright, Though now his eightieth year was nigh. Then, with no...
Pagina 191 - When I read the several dates of the tombs, of" some that died yesterday, and some six hundred years ago, I consider that great day when we shall all of us be contemporaries, and make our appearance together.
Pagina 219 - I have ever hated all nations, professions, and communities, and all my love is towards individuals; for instance, I hate the tribe of lawyers, but I love Counsellor Such-a-one and Judge Such-a-one; so with physicians — I will not speak of my own trade — soldiers, English, Scotch, French, and the rest. But principally I hate and detest that animal called man, although I heartily love John, Peter, Thomas, and so forth.
Pagina 95 - When, on our deck reclined, In careless ease my limbs I lay And woo the cooler wind. I miss thee when by Gunga's stream My twilight steps I guide, But most beneath the lamp's pale beam I miss thee from my side. I spread my books, my pencil try The lingering noon to cheer, But miss thy kind approving eye, Thy meek attentive ear. But when...
Pagina 121 - A child will make two dishes at an entertainment for friends, and when the family dines alone, the fore or hind quarter will make a reasonable dish...
Pagina 191 - When I look upon the tombs of the great, every emotion of envy dies in me ; when I read the epitaphs of the beautiful, every inordinate desire goes out; when I meet with the grief of parents upon a tombstone, my heart melts with compassion ; when I see the tomb of the parents themselves, I consider the vanity of grieving for those whom we must quickly follow.
Pagina 158 - The marriage, if uncontradicted report can be credited, made no addition to his happiness ; it neither found them nor made them equal. She always remembered her own rank, and thought herself entitled to treat with very little ceremony the tutor of her son.