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... tion . Noble adventurers travelled much with heroes fighting immense from court to court in search of em- battles and inspiring repulsed battal- ployment ; not merely noble males , ions to engage ; or statesmen locked but noble females ...
... tion . Noble adventurers travelled much with heroes fighting immense from court to court in search of em- battles and inspiring repulsed battal- ployment ; not merely noble males , ions to engage ; or statesmen locked but noble females ...
Pagina 24
... tion ? As I peep into George II.'s St. James's , I see crowds of cassocks rustling up the back - stairs of the la- dies of the Court ; stealthy clergy slipping purses into their laps ; that godless old King yawning under his canopy in ...
... tion ? As I peep into George II.'s St. James's , I see crowds of cassocks rustling up the back - stairs of the la- dies of the Court ; stealthy clergy slipping purses into their laps ; that godless old King yawning under his canopy in ...
Pagina 28
... tion . " There were cards everywhere . It was considered ill - bred to read in company . " Books were not fit ar- ticles for drawing - rooms , " old ladies used to say . People were jealous , as it were , and angry with them . You will ...
... tion . " There were cards everywhere . It was considered ill - bred to read in company . " Books were not fit ar- ticles for drawing - rooms , " old ladies used to say . People were jealous , as it were , and angry with them . You will ...
Pagina 36
... tion . " " After Warner , the most interesting of Selwyn's correspondents is the Earl of Carlisle , grandfather of the amia- ble nobleman at present * Viceroy in Ireland . The grandfather , too , was Irish Viceroy , having previously ...
... tion . " " After Warner , the most interesting of Selwyn's correspondents is the Earl of Carlisle , grandfather of the amia- ble nobleman at present * Viceroy in Ireland . The grandfather , too , was Irish Viceroy , having previously ...
Pagina 44
... tion exceedingly popular in Spain . Wars and revolutions are , how- ever , the politician's province . The great events of this long reign , the statesmen and orators who illustrated it , I do not pretend to make the sub- jects of an ...
... tion exceedingly popular in Spain . Wars and revolutions are , how- ever , the politician's province . The great events of this long reign , the statesmen and orators who illustrated it , I do not pretend to make the sub- jects of an ...
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Miscellanies: Prose and Verse. ¬The history of Samuel Titmarsh, Volume 1 William Makepeace Thackeray Volledige weergave - 1849 |
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Pagina 48 - Kent. Vex not his ghost. O, let him pass! He hates him That would upon the rack of this tough world Stretch him out longer.
Pagina 149 - Peace to all such! but were there one whose fires True genius kindles, and fair fame inspires; Blest with each talent, and each art to please, And born to write, converse, and live with ease: Should such a man, too fond to rule alone, Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne...
Pagina 82 - 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 194 - Amidst the swains to show my book-learned skill, Around my fire an evening group to draw, And tell of all I felt and all I saw; And, as a hare, whom hounds and horns pursue, Pants to the place from whence at first she flew — I still had hopes — my long vexations past, Here to return, and die at home at last.
Pagina 111 - 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 149 - Dreading even fools, by flatterers besieged, And so obliging, that he ne'er obliged; Like Cato, give his little senate laws, And sit attentive to his own applause; While wits and templars every sentence raise, And wonder with a foolish face of praise: — Who but must laugh, if such a man there be? Who would not weep, if Atticus were he? What though my name stood rubric on the walls, Or plaistered posts, with claps, in capitals? Or smoking forth, a hundred hawkers' load, On wings of winds came flying...
Pagina 84 - At ninety they lose their teeth and hair, they have at that age no distinction of taste, but eat and drink whatever they can get, without relish or appetite. The diseases they were subject to still continue without increasing or diminishing. In talking they forget the common appellation of things, and the names of persons, even of those who are their nearest friends and relations.
Pagina 142 - As he carried it on, he showed what he wrote to both of us, and we now and then gave a correction, or a word or two of advice ; but it was wholly of his own writing. When it was done, neither of us thought it would succeed. We showed it to Congreve ; who, after reading it over, said, it would either take greatly, or be damned confoundedly.
Pagina 109 - I HAVE observed, that a reader seldom peruses a book with pleasure, till he knows whether the writer of it be a black or a fair man, of a mild or choleric disposition, married or a bachelor, with other particulars of the like nature, that conduce very much to the right understanding of an author.
Pagina 188 - At church, with meek and unaffected grace, His looks adorned the venerable place ; Truth from his lips prevailed with double sway, And fools, who came to scoff, remained to pray.