The Works of William Makepeace Thackeray: The history of PendennisSmith Elder & Company, 1905 |
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... kind old aunts from me . " In the published letters to Mrs. Brookfield there are also several which belong to these times , and he tells her on one occasion of two beginnings , a comical beginning and a sentimental one , to come in ...
... kind old aunts from me . " In the published letters to Mrs. Brookfield there are also several which belong to these times , and he tells her on one occasion of two beginnings , a comical beginning and a sentimental one , to come in ...
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... kind and cordial , as they always are . Then I went to see Dr. Halliday , who is not long for this world , I should think , and greatly depressed about Mrs. Halli- day she has been wandering in her mind for weeks past— very seldom ...
... kind and cordial , as they always are . Then I went to see Dr. Halliday , who is not long for this world , I should think , and greatly depressed about Mrs. Halli- day she has been wandering in her mind for weeks past— very seldom ...
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... kind friend brought you to my bedside , whence , in all probability , I never should have risen but for your constant watchfulness and skill . I like to recall your great goodness and kindness ( as well as many acts of others , showing ...
... kind friend brought you to my bedside , whence , in all probability , I never should have risen but for your constant watchfulness and skill . I like to recall your great goodness and kindness ( as well as many acts of others , showing ...
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William Makepeace Thackeray Anne Thackeray Ritchie. PREFACE F this kind of composition , of which the two years ' product is now laid before the public , fail in art , as it constantly does and must , it at least has the advantage of a ...
William Makepeace Thackeray Anne Thackeray Ritchie. PREFACE F this kind of composition , of which the two years ' product is now laid before the public , fail in art , as it constantly does and must , it at least has the advantage of a ...
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... kind as specimens of the costume of a military man en retraite . At a distance , or seeing his back merely , you would have taken him to be not more than thirty years old : it was only by a nearer inspection that you saw the factitious ...
... kind as specimens of the costume of a military man en retraite . At a distance , or seeing his back merely , you would have taken him to be not more than thirty years old : it was only by a nearer inspection that you saw the factitious ...
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Seite 302 - There she is — the great engine — she never sleeps. She has her ambassadors in every quarter of the world, her couriers upon every road. Her officers march along with armies, and her envoys walk into statesmen's cabinets. They are ubiquitous. Yonder journal has an agent at this minute giving bribes at Madrid, and another inspecting the price of potatoes in Covent Garden.
Seite 62 - It is best to love wisely, no doubt : but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all.
Seite 615 - If seeing and acknowledging the lies of the world, Arthur, as see them you can with only too fatal a clearness, you submit to them without any protest...
Seite 399 - If the secret history of books could be written, and the author's private thoughts and meanings noted down alongside of his story, how many insipid volumes would become interesting, and dull tales excite the reader!
Seite 616 - ... position of a leader, and passes over, truth-impelled, to the enemy, in whose ranks he is ready to serve henceforth as a nameless private soldier : — I see the truth in that man, as I do in his brother, whose logic drives him to quite a different conclusion, and who, after having passed a life in vain endeavors to reconcile an irreconcilable book, flings it at last down in despair, and declares, with tearful eyes, and hands up to Heaven, his revolt and recantation.
Seite 1 - At a quarter past ten the Major invariably made his appearance in the best blacked boots in all London, with a checked morning cravat that never was rumpled until dinner-time, a buff waistcoat which bore the crown of his sovereign on the buttons, and linen so spotless that Mr.
Seite xvi - your idleness is incorrigible and your stupidity beyond example. You are a disgrace to your school, and to your family, and I have no doubt will prove so in after-life to your country. If that vice, sir, which is described to us as the root of all evil, be really what moralists have represented...
Seite xlvii - Ladies and gentlemen, you were to have been treated, and the writer's and the publishers' pocket benefited, by the recital of the most active horrors. What more exciting than a ruffian (with many admirable virtues) in St. Giles's visited constantly by a young lady from Belgravia ? What more stirring than the contrasts of society ? the mixture of slang and fashionable language...