The Works of William Makepeace Thackeray, Band 3Smith, Elder & Company, 1879 |
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... Major Arthur Pendennis came over from his lodgings , according to his custom , to breakfast at a certain Club in Pall Mall , of which he was a chief ornament . At a quarter past ten the Major invariably made his appearance in the best ...
... Major Arthur Pendennis came over from his lodgings , according to his custom , to breakfast at a certain Club in Pall Mall , of which he was a chief ornament . At a quarter past ten the Major invariably made his appearance in the best ...
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... largest of them being emblazoned with the famous arms of Pendennis . He always took possession of the same table in the same corner of the room , from which nobody ever now thought of ousting him . One or two mad wags and wild fellows ...
... largest of them being emblazoned with the famous arms of Pendennis . He always took possession of the same table in the same corner of the room , from which nobody ever now thought of ousting him . One or two mad wags and wild fellows ...
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... Major Pendennis's budget for that morning there was only one unread , and which lay solitary and apart from all the fashionable London letters , with a country post - mark and a homely seal . The superscription was in a pretty delicate ...
... Major Pendennis's budget for that morning there was only one unread , and which lay solitary and apart from all the fashionable London letters , with a country post - mark and a homely seal . The superscription was in a pretty delicate ...
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... Major's " unhappy affectionate sister , Helen Pendennis . " " Fairoaks , Tuesday " -the Major concluded , reading the last words of the letter- " A d - d pretty business at Fairoaks , Tuesday ; now let us see what the boy has to say ...
... Major's " unhappy affectionate sister , Helen Pendennis . " " Fairoaks , Tuesday " -the Major concluded , reading the last words of the letter- " A d - d pretty business at Fairoaks , Tuesday ; now let us see what the boy has to say ...
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... PENDENNIS , Jr. " When the Major had concluded the perusal of this letter , his coun- tenance assumed an expression of such rage and horror that Glowry , the surgeon , felt in his pocket for his lancet , which he always carried in his ...
... PENDENNIS , Jr. " When the Major had concluded the perusal of this letter , his coun- tenance assumed an expression of such rage and horror that Glowry , the surgeon , felt in his pocket for his lancet , which he always carried in his ...
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acquaintance admired Anne Brontë Arthur Pendennis asked Baymouth beautiful began Bingley Blanche blushed Bows Bungay called Captain Costigan carriage CHARLOTTE BRONTË Chatteris Clavering's cried daughter dear delighted dine dinner Doctor Portman door drawing-room eyes face Fairoaks father Foker girl give Glanders glass hand handsome heard heart Helen honest honour knew Lady Clavering laughing letters live London looked Lord Lowton Madame Fribsby Major Pendennis mamma marry Mirobolant Miss Amory Miss Costigan Miss Fotheringay morning mother nephew never night Oxbridge Pall Mall Gazette Pen's Pendennis's play pleasure Pontypool poor pretty Pynsent round Saint Boniface sate Shandon Sir Derby Sir Francis Clavering Smirke talk thought took town uncle verses voice Wagg walked Warrington Wenham window wine woman wonder young fellow young gentleman young lady young rascal
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Seite 348 - 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 69 - It is best to love wisely, no doubt : but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all. Some of us can't : and are proud of our impotence too. At the end of his speech, Pen again kissed the imperial hand with rapture — and I believe it was at this very moment, and while Mrs.
Seite 335 - Healthy country tradesmen and farmers, in London for their business, came and recreated themselves with the jolly singing and suppers of the Back Kitchen ; — squads of young apprentices and assistants, the shutters being closed over the scene of their labours, came hither, for fresh air doubtless ; — rakish young medical students, gallant, dashing, what is called
Seite 239 - ... 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 rosebud1;, and her voice warbled limpidly over a set of the sweetest little pearly teeth ever seen.
Seite 348 - Kneel, undisturb'd, fair Saint ! Pour out your praise or plaint Meekly and duly ; I will not enter there, To sully your pure prayer With thoughts unruly.
Seite 147 - Clavering westwards towards the sea — the place appears to be so cheery and comfortable that many a traveller's heart must have yearned towards it from the coach-top, and he must have thought that it was in such a calm friendly nook he would like to shelter at the end of life's struggle.
Seite 41 - Pen said. " She's speaking." She began her business in a deep sweet voice. Those who know the play of the " Stranger " are aware that the remarks made by the various characters are not valuable in themselves, either for their sound sense, their novelty of observation, or their poetic fancy. Nobody ever talked so. If we meet idiots in life, as will happen, it is a great mercy that they do not use such absurdly fine words. The Stranger's talk is sham, like the book he reads, and the hair he wears,...
Seite 413 - When nobody was near, our little Sylphide, who scarcely ate at dinner more than the six grains of rice of Amina, the friend of the Ghouls in the Arabian Nights, was most active with her knife and fork, and consumed a very substantial portion of mutton cutlets : in which piece of hypocrisy it is believed she resembled other young ladies of fashion. Pen and his uncle declined the refection, but they admired the dining-room with fitting compliments, and pronounced it " very chaste," that being the proper...