The Works of William Makepeace Thackeray, Band 2

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Harper & bros., 1898

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Seite 62 - It is best to love wisely, no doubt : but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all.
Seite 740 - The man that lays his hand upon a woman, Save in the way of kindness, is a wretch Whom 'twere gross flattery to name a coward.
Seite 305 - 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 xlvii - IF this kind of composition, of which the two years' product is now laid before the public, fail in art, as it constantly does and must, it at least has the advantage of a certain truth and honesty, which a work more elaborate might lose. In his constant communication with the reader, the writer is forced into frankness of expression, and to speak out his own mind and feelings as they urge him. Many a slip of the pen and the printer, many a word spoken in haste, he sees and would recall as he looks...
Seite 617 - ... than a laugh : if plunged yourself in easy sensuality, you allow the whole wretched world to pass groaning by you unmoved : if the fight for the truth is taking place, and all men of honour are on the ground armed on the one side or the other, and you alone are to lie on your balcony, and smoke your pipe out of the noise and the danger, you had better have died, or never have been at all, than such a sensual coward.
Seite 1 - At a quarter past ten the Major invariably made his appearance in the best blacked boots in all London, with a checked morning cravat that never was rumpled until dinner-time, a buff waistcoat which bore the crown of his sovereign on the buttons, and linen so spotless that Mr.

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