The Complete Works of William Makepeace Thackeray: The four Georges ; The English humorists ; Sketches and travels in LondonHoughton, Mifflin, 1889 |
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... briskly up to him in the ante - room , seized his hand , and announced himself as ' proprietor of the Mammoth Rat , ' and proposed to ex- · • change season tickets . Thackeray , with the utmost gravity viii INTRODUCTORY NOTE .
... briskly up to him in the ante - room , seized his hand , and announced himself as ' proprietor of the Mammoth Rat , ' and proposed to ex- · • change season tickets . Thackeray , with the utmost gravity viii INTRODUCTORY NOTE .
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... hand , how with it I held on to the old soci- ety of wits and men of the world . I could travel back for seven score years of time - have glimpses of Brummell , Selwyn , Chesterfield , and the men of pleasure ; of Walpole and Conway ...
... hand , how with it I held on to the old soci- ety of wits and men of the world . I could travel back for seven score years of time - have glimpses of Brummell , Selwyn , Chesterfield , and the men of pleasure ; of Walpole and Conway ...
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... hand , as the cavalcade passes through the town with torch - bearers , trumpeters blowing their lusty cheeks out , and squadrons of jack- booted lifeguardsmen , girt with shining cuirasses , and bestriding thundering chargers ...
... hand , as the cavalcade passes through the town with torch - bearers , trumpeters blowing their lusty cheeks out , and squadrons of jack- booted lifeguardsmen , girt with shining cuirasses , and bestriding thundering chargers ...
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... hand on his blue ribbon , and lifts his eyes more gracefully to heaven than this hero ? He makes a quasi - triumphal entrance into London , by Temple Bar , in his enormous gilt coach - and the enormous gilt coach breaks down somewhere ...
... hand on his blue ribbon , and lifts his eyes more gracefully to heaven than this hero ? He makes a quasi - triumphal entrance into London , by Temple Bar , in his enormous gilt coach - and the enormous gilt coach breaks down somewhere ...
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... hand , which he had been cheapening for his dinner . Chesterfield came there many a time and gambled for hundreds , and grinned through his gout . Mary Wortley was there , young and beautiful ; and Mary Wortley , old , hideous , and ...
... hand , which he had been cheapening for his dinner . Chesterfield came there many a time and gambled for hundreds , and grinned through his gout . Mary Wortley was there , young and beautiful ; and Mary Wortley , old , hideous , and ...
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acquaintance Addison admire amuse asked beautiful called charming Club Congreve court Covent Garden dance dear Bob delightful dine dinner dress drink Duke England English eyes face famous fancy father fellow genius gentleman George George III George IV George Selwyn give Goldsmith hand Hanover happy head heart Hogarth honest honor humor John Gay Johnson jolly jolly fellows Jones Joseph Addison kind King lady laugh letters lived London look Lord Lord Bolingbroke manner marriage married morning nature never night pantomime passed periwig person play pleasant pleasure poet poor Pope pretty Prince Princess Queen round royal smile society speak Steele Stella story Street Struldbrugs Swift talk Tatler tell thought Tom Jones took Tyburn verses walk Whig whilst wife William the Pious wine woman women wonder writes young youth
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Página 79 - Kent. Vex not his ghost. O, let him pass! He hates him That would upon the rack of this tough world Stretch him out longer.
Página 324 - tis hard to combat, learns to fly! For him no wretches, born to work and weep, Explore the mine, or tempt the dangerous deep; No surly porter stands in guilty state, To spurn imploring famine from the gate...
Página 315 - To them his heart, his love, his griefs, were given. But all his serious thoughts had rest in Heaven : As some tall cliff that lifts its awful form, Swells from the vale, and midway leaves the storm, Though round its breast the rolling clouds are spread. Eternal sunshine settles on its head.
Página 62 - His virtues walked their narrow round, Nor made a pause, nor left a void; And sure the eternal Master found The single talent well employ'd.
Página 175 - Inspired repulsed battalions to engage, And taught the doubtful battle where to rage. So when an angel, by divine command, With rising tempests shakes a guilty land (Such as of late o'er pale Britannia passed), Calm and serene he drives the furious blast ; And, pleased the Almighty's orders to perform. Rides in the whirlwind and directs the storm.
Página 182 - I HAVE observed, that a reader seldom peruses a book with pleasure, till he knows whether the writer of it be a black or a fair man, of a mild or choleric disposition, married or a bachelor, with other particulars of the like nature, that conduce very much to the right understanding of an author.
Página 108 - I consider it an indispensable duty to close this last act of my official life by commending the interests of our dearest country to the protection of Almighty God, and those who have the superintendence of them to His holy keeping. Having now finished the work assigned me, I retire from the great theatre of action, and bidding an affectionate farewell to this august body, under whose orders I have so long acted, I here offer my commission, and take my leave of all the employments of public life.
Página 230 - Of manners gentle, of affections mild ; In wit, a man ; simplicity, a child ; With native humour temp'ring virtuous rage, Form'd to delight at once and lash the age ; Above temptation, in a low estate ; And uncorrupted...
Página 262 - Religion, blushing, veils her sacred fires, And unawares Morality expires. Nor public flame, nor private dares to shine; Nor human spark is left, nor glimpse divine Lo, thy dread empire, Chaos ! is restored; Light dies before thy uncreating word : Thy hand, great Anarch, lets the curtain fall, And universal darkness buries all.
Página 251 - Dreading even fools, by flatterers besieged, And so obliging, that he ne'er obliged; Like Cato, give his little senate laws, And sit attentive to his own applause; While wits and templars every sentence raise, And wonder with a foolish face of praise: — Who but must laugh, if such a man there be? Who would not weep, if Atticus were he? What though my name stood rubric on the walls, Or plaistered posts, with claps, in capitals? Or smoking forth, a hundred hawkers' load, On wings of winds came flying...