THE WORKS OF WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY1869 |
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Pagina 5
... believe the scapegrace cared one fig . No ! Figs are sweet , but fictions are sweeter . Have you ever seen a score of white - bearded , white - robed warriors , or grave seniors of the city , seated at the gate of Jaffa or Beyrout , and ...
... believe the scapegrace cared one fig . No ! Figs are sweet , but fictions are sweeter . Have you ever seen a score of white - bearded , white - robed warriors , or grave seniors of the city , seated at the gate of Jaffa or Beyrout , and ...
Pagina 41
... believe as much as a million readers ! " ( Immense sensation . ) " To these have we said an unkind word ? We have enemies ; have we hit them an unkind blow ? Have we sought to pursue party aims , to forward private jobs , to advance ...
... believe as much as a million readers ! " ( Immense sensation . ) " To these have we said an unkind word ? We have enemies ; have we hit them an unkind blow ? Have we sought to pursue party aims , to forward private jobs , to advance ...
Pagina 55
... believe them . They are actuated by no hostility : not they . They bear no malice - of course not . But when the Trojan war occurs presently , which side will they take ? Many brave souls will be sent to Hades . Hector will perish ...
... believe them . They are actuated by no hostility : not they . They bear no malice - of course not . But when the Trojan war occurs presently , which side will they take ? Many brave souls will be sent to Hades . Hector will perish ...
Pagina 62
... believe to this day that the value of the thing for which I owed and eventually paid three - and - sixpence , was in reality not one- and - nine . I certainly enjoyed the case at first a good deal , and amused myself with twiddling ...
... believe to this day that the value of the thing for which I owed and eventually paid three - and - sixpence , was in reality not one- and - nine . I certainly enjoyed the case at first a good deal , and amused myself with twiddling ...
Pagina 69
... believe he still wears his robes at Madame Tussaud's ( Madame herself having quitted Baker Street and life , and found him she modelled t'other side the Stygian stream ) . On the head of a five - shilling piece we still occasionally ...
... believe he still wears his robes at Madame Tussaud's ( Madame herself having quitted Baker Street and life , and found him she modelled t'other side the Stygian stream ) . On the head of a five - shilling piece we still occasionally ...
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Pagina 245 - Millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth Unseen, both when we wake, and when we sleep. All these with ceaseless praise his works behold Both day and night : how often from the steep Of echoing hill or thicket have we heard Celestial voices to the midnight air, Sole, or responsive each to other's note, Singing their great Creator...
Pagina 233 - Here are two examples of men most differently gifted : each pursuing his calling ; each speaking his truth as God bade him ; each honest in his life ; just and irreproachable in his dealings ; dear to his friends ; honored by his country ; beloved at his fireside. It has been the fortunate lot of both to give incalculable happiness and delight to the world, which thanks them in return with an immense kindliness, respect, affection.
Pagina 226 - He had not in any way intrigued for his honours, he had fairly -won them ; and, in Irving's instance, as in others, the old country was glad and eager to pay them. In America the love and regard for Irving was a national sentiment. Party wars are perpetually raging there, and are carried on by the press with a rancour and fierceness against individuals which exceed British, almost Irish, virulence.
Pagina 224 - Ere a few weeks are over, many a critic's pen will be at work, reviewing their lives and passing judgment on their works. This is no review, or history, or criticism : only a word in testimony of respect and regard from a man of letters, who owes to his own professional labour the honour of becoming acquainted with these two eminent literary men.
Pagina 285 - Would you not pay a pretty fine to be able to cancel some of them ? Oh, the sad old pages, the dull old pages ! Oh, the cares, the ennui, the squabbles, the repetitions, the old conversations over and over again ! But now and again a kind thought is recalled, and now and again a dear memory. Yet a few chapters more, and then the last : after which, behold Finis itself come to an end, and the Infinite begun.
Pagina 127 - ... horrible. The hand drops powerless, appalled at the quantity of birch which it must cut and brandish. I am glad we are not all found out, I say again; and protest, my dear brethren, against our having our deserts. To fancy all men found out and punished is bad enough; but imagine all women found out in the distinguished social circle in which you and I have the honour to move.
Pagina 371 - Which of her readers has not become her friend? Who that has known her books has not admired the artist's noble English, the burning love of truth, the bravery, the simplicity, the indignation at wrong, the eager sympathy, the pious love and reverence, the passionate honor, so to speak, of the woman?
Pagina 225 - Who can calculate the amount of friendliness and good feeling for our country which this writer's generous and untiring regard for us disseminated in his own? His books are read by millions* of his countrymen, whom he has taught to love England, and why to love her. It would have been easy to speak otherwise than he did: to inflame national...
Pagina 230 - Well—take at hazard any three pages of the " Essays " or " History; "—and, glimmering below the stream of the narrative, as it were, you, an average reader, see one, two, three, a half-score of allusions to other historic facts, characters, literature, poetry, with which you are acquainted.
Pagina 295 - I have read about him from sunrise to sunset with the utmost contentment of mind. He has passed through how many volumes? Forty? Fifty? I wish for my part there were a hundred more, and would never tire of him rescuing prisoners, punishing ruffians, and running scoundrels through the midriff with his most graceful rapier. Ah, Athos, Porthos, and Aramis, yon are a magnificent trio.