The Works of William Makepeace Thackeray, Volume 20Smith, Elder & Company, 1869 |
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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...
Pagina 232 - Here are two literary men gone to their account, and, laus Deo, as far as we know, it is fair, and open, and clean. Here is no need of apologies for shortcomings, or explanations of vices which would have been virtues but for unavoidable &c. 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 ; honoured by his country ; beloved at his fireside....
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 226 - 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 rancor and fierceness against individuals which exceed British, almost Irish, virulence.
Pagina 372 - I saw her first just as I rose out of an illness from which I had never thought to recover. I remember the trembling little frame, the little hand, the great honest eyes. An impetuous honesty seemed to me to characterise the woman.
Pagina 224 - His new country (which some people here might be disposed to regard rather superciliously) could send us, as he showed in his own person, a gentleman, who, though himself * Washington Irving died, November 28, 1859 ; Lord Maoaulay died, December 28, 1859.
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 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.
Pagina 374 - Eyre," sent to me by an author whose name and sex Were then alike unknown to me; the strange fascinations of the book; and how with my own work pressing upon me, I could not, having taken the volumes up, lay them down until they were read through...
Pagina 280 - Jacob Faithful": once at Frankfort om, the delightful "Vingt ans apres" of Monsieur Dumas: once at Tunbridge Wells, the thrilling "Woman in White": and these books gave me amusement from morning till sunset. I remember those ague fits with a great deal of pleasure and gratitude. Think of a whole day in bed, and a good novel for a companion! No cares: no remorse about idleness: no visitors: and the Woman in White or the Chevalier d' Artagnan to tell me stories from dawn to night! " Please, ma'am,...