 | 1903 - 664 Seiten
...father was not satisfied either." Fortunately this advice was not taken. Thackeray says in the preface " that this book began with a very precise plan, which was entirely set aside." Without doubt we are indebted to Thackeray's illness for those three most charming chapters—... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1850 - 448 Seiten
...that this person writing strives to tell the truth. If there is not that, there is nothing. Perhaps the lovers of " excitement " may care to know, that...were to have been treated, and the writer's and the publisher's pocket benefitted, by the recital of the most active horrors. What more exciting than a... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1850 - 392 Seiten
...that this person writing strives to tell the truth. If there is not that, there is nothing. Perhaps the lovers of " excitement" may care to know, that this book began with a very precise plan, which waa entirely put aside. Ladies and gentlemen, you were to have been treated, and the writer's and the... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1867 - 528 Seiten
...that this person writing strives to tell the truth. If there is not that, there is nothing. Perhaps the lovers of "excitement" may care to know, that...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... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1879 - 456 Seiten
...that this person writing strives to tell the truth. If there is not that, there is nothing. Perhaps the lovers of " excitement " may care to know, that...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... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1881 - 876 Seiten
...to tell the truth. If there is not that, there is nothing. Perhaps the lovers of " excitement" majr care to know, that this book began with a very precise...were to have been treated, and the writer's and the publisher's pocket benefited, by the recital of the most active horrors. What more exciting than a... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1883 - 572 Seiten
...that this person writing strives to tell the truth. If there is not that, there is nothing. Perhaps the lovers of "excitement" may care to know, that...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... | |
 | William Henry Rideing - 1885 - 120 Seiten
...said Thackeray was not a novelist of low life. " Perhaps," he says in the preface to Pendennis : " the lovers of excitement may care to know that this book began with a veiy precise plan, which was entirely put aside. Ladies and Gentlemen, you were to have been treated,... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1889 - 534 Seiten
...that this person writing strives to tell the truth. If there is not that, there is nothing. Perhaps the lovers of "excitement" may care to know that this...were to have been treated, and the writer's and the publisher's pocket benefited, by the recital of the most active horrors. What more exciting than a... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1898 - 456 Seiten
...that this person writing strives to tell the truth. If there is not ihat, there is nothing. Perhaps the lovers of " excitement " may care to know, that...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... | |
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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... 
