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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... wife is taken ill ; his sweetheart , who remarked his brilliant , too brilliant appearance at the Hyde Park review , will meet him at Cremorne , or where you will . The old friend who has owed him that money these five years will meet ...
... wife is taken ill ; his sweetheart , who remarked his brilliant , too brilliant appearance at the Hyde Park review , will meet him at Cremorne , or where you will . The old friend who has owed him that money these five years will meet ...
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... wife , lodgings , earnings , and general history , and I dare say was forming a picture of those in my mind : - wife cooking the mutton : children wait- ing for it ; Merryman in his plain clothes , and so forth ; during which ...
... wife , lodgings , earnings , and general history , and I dare say was forming a picture of those in my mind : - wife cooking the mutton : children wait- ing for it ; Merryman in his plain clothes , and so forth ; during which ...
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... wife and children in the sociable , and he passes an ordinary brick house on the road with an ordinary little garden in the front , we will say , and quite an ordinary knocker to the door , and as many sashed windows as you please ...
... wife and children in the sociable , and he passes an ordinary brick house on the road with an ordinary little garden in the front , we will say , and quite an ordinary knocker to the door , and as many sashed windows as you please ...
Pagina 68
... wife says he looks quite green ; but ill as he is , poor fellow , " his well is not dry . He has pumped out a sheet of Christmas fun , is drawing some cuts , and shall write a sheet more of his novel . " Oh , sad , marvellous picture of ...
... wife says he looks quite green ; but ill as he is , poor fellow , " his well is not dry . He has pumped out a sheet of Christmas fun , is drawing some cuts , and shall write a sheet more of his novel . " Oh , sad , marvellous picture of ...
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... wife , friends ; to the former especially his whole life had been devoted , and every day showed his fidelity , simplicity , and affection . In going through the record of his most pure , modest , honorable life , and living along with ...
... wife , friends ; to the former especially his whole life had been devoted , and every day showed his fidelity , simplicity , and affection . In going through the record of his most pure , modest , honorable life , and living along 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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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.