The Works of William Makepeace Thackeray, Band 3Smith, Elder & Company, 1868 |
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... thing , everybody had the greatest respect for him : and his orders were obeyed like those of the Medes and Persians . His hat was as well brushed , perhaps , as that of any man in this empire . His meals were served at the same minute ...
... thing , everybody had the greatest respect for him : and his orders were obeyed like those of the Medes and Persians . His hat was as well brushed , perhaps , as that of any man in this empire . His meals were served at the same minute ...
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... Christian families , a prodigious thing that theory of life is as orally learned at a great public school . Why , if you could hear those boys VOL . I. 2 of fourteen who blush before mothers and sneak off in PENDENNIS . 17.
... Christian families , a prodigious thing that theory of life is as orally learned at a great public school . Why , if you could hear those boys VOL . I. 2 of fourteen who blush before mothers and sneak off in PENDENNIS . 17.
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... thing was left unreservedly to her , except in case of a second marriage , -an occasion which might offer itself in the case of so young and handsome a woman , Mr. Tatham gallantly said , when different pro- visions were enacted by the ...
... thing was left unreservedly to her , except in case of a second marriage , -an occasion which might offer itself in the case of so young and handsome a woman , Mr. Tatham gallantly said , when different pro- visions were enacted by the ...
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... things in her heart ( if we may so speak ) , and did not speak of them . Besides , she had made up her mind that he was to marry little Laura : she would be eighteen when Pen was six - and - twenty ; and had finished his college career ...
... things in her heart ( if we may so speak ) , and did not speak of them . Besides , she had made up her mind that he was to marry little Laura : she would be eighteen when Pen was six - and - twenty ; and had finished his college career ...
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... thing , were it an animal - for something man must love . " [ Enter Tobias ( Goll ) from the hut ] . He cries , " O , how refreshing , after seven long weeks , to feel these warm sunbeams once again . Thanks , bounteous heaven , for the ...
... thing , were it an animal - for something man must love . " [ Enter Tobias ( Goll ) from the hut ] . He cries , " O , how refreshing , after seven long weeks , to feel these warm sunbeams once again . Thanks , bounteous heaven , for the ...
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Seite 365 - ALTHOUGH I enter not, Yet round about the spot Ofttimes I hover ; And near the sacred gate, With longing eyes I wait, Expectant of her.
Seite 73 - It is best to love wisely, no doubt : but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all.
Seite 366 - Kneel, undisturbed, fair Saint ! Pour out your praise or plaint Meekly and duly ; I will not enter there, To sully your pure prayer With thoughts unruly. But suffer me to pace Round the forbidden place, Lingering a minute Like outcast spirits who wait And see through heaven's gate Angels within it.
Seite 356 - 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 168 - Ah, sir — a distinct universe walks about under your hat and under mine — all things in nature are different to each — the woman we look at has not the same features, the dish we eat from has not the same taste to the one and the other — you and I are but a pair of infinite isolations, with some fellow-islands a little more or less near to us.
Seite 6 - There were those alive who remembered having seen his name painted on a board, which was sur-. mounted by a gilt pestle and mortar over the door of a very humble little shop in the city of Bath, where Mr. Pendennis exercised the profession of apothecary and surgeon ; and where he not only attended gentlemen in their sick-rooms, and ladies at the most interesting periods of their lives, but would condescend to sell a brown-paper plaster to a farmer's wife across the counter, — or to vend tooth-brushes,...
Seite viii - You shall not find fault with my Art, or fall asleep over my pages ; but I ask you to believe that this person writing strives to tell the truth. If there is not that, there is nothing.
Seite 28 - Aristophanes (whom he vowed to be the greatest poet of all). But he went so fast that, though he certainly galloped through a considerable extent of the ancient country, he clean forgot it in afterlife...
Seite 356 - Covent Garden. Look ! here comes the Foreign Express galloping in. They will be able to give news to Downing Street tomorrow : funds will rise or fall, fortunes be made or lost ; Lord B. will get up, and, holding the paper in his hand, and seeing the noble Marquis in his place, will make a great speech ; and — Mr.
Seite 250 - She had fair hair, with green reflections in it. But she had dark eyebrows. She had long black eyelashes, which veiled beautiful brown eyes. She had such a slim waist, that it was a wonder to behold ; and such slim little feet, that you would have thought the grass would hardly bend under them. Her lips were of the colour of faint rosebuds, and her voice warbled limpidly over a set of the sweetest little pearly teeth ever seen. She showed them very often, for they were very pretty. She was very good-natured,...