The Works of William Makepeace Thackeray, Band 3Smith, Elder & Company, 1879 |
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... pretty note after another , and laid them by in order . There were large solemn dinner cards , suggestive of three courses and heavy conversa- tion ; there were neat little confidential notes , conveying female entreaties ; there was a ...
... pretty note after another , and laid them by in order . There were large solemn dinner cards , suggestive of three courses and heavy conversa- tion ; there were neat little confidential notes , conveying female entreaties ; there was a ...
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... pretty delicate female hand , marked " immediate " by the fair writer ; yet the Major had , for reasons of his own , neglected up to the present moment his humble rural petitioner , who to be sure could hardly hope to get a hearing ...
... pretty delicate female hand , marked " immediate " by the fair writer ; yet the Major had , for reasons of his own , neglected up to the present moment his humble rural petitioner , who to be sure could hardly hope to get a hearing ...
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... pretty business at Fairoaks , Tuesday ; now let us see what the boy has to say ; " and he took the other letter , which was written in a great floundering boy's hand , and sealed with the large signet of the Pendennises , even larger ...
... pretty business at Fairoaks , Tuesday ; now let us see what the boy has to say ; " and he took the other letter , which was written in a great floundering boy's hand , and sealed with the large signet of the Pendennises , even larger ...
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... pretty sight ; it and the opposite park of Clavering were in the habit of putting on a rich golden tinge , which became them both wonderfully . The upper windows of the great house flamed so as to make your eyes wink ; the little river ...
... pretty sight ; it and the opposite park of Clavering were in the habit of putting on a rich golden tinge , which became them both wonderfully . The upper windows of the great house flamed so as to make your eyes wink ; the little river ...
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... pretty little rosy - cheeked son , who is coming home from school for the ensuing holidays . I don't say that the boy is lost , or that the innocence has left him which he had from " Heaven , which is our home , " but that the shades of ...
... pretty little rosy - cheeked son , who is coming home from school for the ensuing holidays . I don't say that the boy is lost , or that the innocence has left him which he had from " Heaven , which is our home , " but that the shades of ...
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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...