The Works of William Makepeace Thackeray: The history of PendennisCharles Scribner's Sons, 1904 |
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... gentleman was eager to go to London too , rightly considering that at three - and - twenty it was quite time for him to begin upon the serious business of life , and to set about mak- ing a fortune as quickly as possible . The means to ...
... gentleman was eager to go to London too , rightly considering that at three - and - twenty it was quite time for him to begin upon the serious business of life , and to set about mak- ing a fortune as quickly as possible . The means to ...
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... gentleman . But would he have escaped then ? Temptation is an obsequious servant that has no objection to the country , and we know that it takes up its lodging in hermitages as well as in cities ; and that in the most remote and ...
... gentleman . But would he have escaped then ? Temptation is an obsequious servant that has no objection to the country , and we know that it takes up its lodging in hermitages as well as in cities ; and that in the most remote and ...
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... gentleman knew intimately , as it ap- peared , all the leading men of letters of his day , and talked about Tom Campbell , and Tom Hood , and Syd- ney Smith , and this and the other , as if he had been their most intimate friend . As ...
... gentleman knew intimately , as it ap- peared , all the leading men of letters of his day , and talked about Tom Campbell , and Tom Hood , and Syd- ney Smith , and this and the other , as if he had been their most intimate friend . As ...
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... gentleman and from his mother , stating that he was come to town , was entered a member of the Upper Temple , and was read- ing hard for the bar . The Lamb Court , Temple : -where was it ? Major Pen- dennis remembered that some ladies ...
... gentleman and from his mother , stating that he was come to town , was entered a member of the Upper Temple , and was read- ing hard for the bar . The Lamb Court , Temple : -where was it ? Major Pen- dennis remembered that some ladies ...
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... gentleman can live in such a place . " " Pray , who taught you where gentlemen should or should not live , Morgan ? Mr. Arthur , sir , is going to VOL . II . study for the bar , sir ; " the Major PENDENNIS 33.
... gentleman can live in such a place . " " Pray , who taught you where gentlemen should or should not live , Morgan ? Mr. Arthur , sir , is going to VOL . II . study for the bar , sir ; " the Major PENDENNIS 33.
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acquaintance ain't amused Ann Milton Arthur Pendennis asked Back Kitchen Bacon Baronet begad better Blanche blush Bolton Bows Bungay Bungay's called Captain Costigan carriage chambers Clavering family Colchicum Colonel Altamont cried daugh daughter dear delighted devilish dine dinner Doolan door eyes face Fairoaks fellow Finucane gentleman girl give Grosvenor Place hand heard heart honest honour Huxter Jove knew Lady Clavering Lamb Court laugh Laura little Fanny live London looked Lord Lord Steyne Lowton Major Pendennis mamma marry Mirabel Miss Amory Morgan morning mother never night novel Oxbridge Pall Mall Gazette paper passed Pen's perhaps play pleasure poor Popjoy pretty Pynsent sate Shandon Shepherd's Sir Francis Clavering speak Strong talk tell Temple thought took uncle Vauxhall voice Wagg walked Warrington Wenham woman wonder word young youth
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Seite 84 - 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. The Minster bell tolls out Above the city's rout, And noise and humming : They've hush'd the Minster bell : The organ 'gins to swell : She's coming, she's coming...
Seite 179 - 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...
Seite 135 - It is to be called the Pall Mall Gazette, sir, and we shall be very happy to have you with us," Shandon said. "Pall Mall Gazette— why Pall Mall Gazette?" asked Wagg. " Because the editor was born at Dublin, the sub-editor at Cork ; because the proprietor lives in Paternoster Row, and the paper is published in Catherine Street, Strand.