The Works of William Makepeace Thackeray: The four Georges and The English humouristsSmith, Elder, 1885 |
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... letters in the University Library at Upsala , written by Philip and Dorothea to each other , and telling their miserable story . The bewitching Königsmarck had conquered two female hearts in Hanover . Besides the Electoral Prince's ...
... letters in the University Library at Upsala , written by Philip and Dorothea to each other , and telling their miserable story . The bewitching Königsmarck had conquered two female hearts in Hanover . Besides the Electoral Prince's ...
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... letters are slipped ; and there is Lothario , finally , than whom , as I have said , one can't imagine a more handsome , wicked , worthless reprobate . How that perverse fidelity of passion pursues the villain ! How madly true the woman ...
... letters are slipped ; and there is Lothario , finally , than whom , as I have said , one can't imagine a more handsome , wicked , worthless reprobate . How that perverse fidelity of passion pursues the villain ! How madly true the woman ...
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... letters were passed ; and over a great banker's in Fleet Street , the effigy of the wallet , which the founder of the firm bore when he came into London a country boy . People this street , so orna- mented , with crowds of swinging ...
... letters were passed ; and over a great banker's in Fleet Street , the effigy of the wallet , which the founder of the firm bore when he came into London a country boy . People this street , so orna- mented , with crowds of swinging ...
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... letters no more than his master did : he judged human nature so meanly that one is ashamed to have to own that he was right , and that men could be corrupted by means so base . But , with his hireling House of Commons , he defended ...
... letters no more than his master did : he judged human nature so meanly that one is ashamed to have to own that he was right , and that men could be corrupted by means so base . But , with his hireling House of Commons , he defended ...
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... letters - of which he wrote prodigious quantities- were quite dangerous in their powers of fascination . He kept his sentimentalities for his Germans and his queen . With us English , he never chose to be familiar . He has been accused ...
... letters - of which he wrote prodigious quantities- were quite dangerous in their powers of fascination . He kept his sentimentalities for his Germans and his queen . With us English , he never chose to be familiar . He has been accused ...
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Página 337 - In all my wanderings round this world of care, In all my griefs - and God has given my share I still had hopes, my latest hours to crown, Amidst these humble bowers to lay me down...
Página 224 - When I look upon the tombs of the great, every emotion of envy dies in me; when I read the epitaphs of the beautiful, every inordinate desire goes out; when I meet with the grief of parents...
Página 327 - At church, with meek and unaffected grace, His looks adorn'd the venerable place; Truth from his lips prevail'd with double sway, And fools who came to scoff, remain'd to pray.
Página 147 - I have been assured by a very knowing American of my acquaintance in London that a young, healthy child well nursed is, at a year old, . a most delicious, nourishing, and wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled; and I make no doubt that it will equally serve in a fricassee or a ragout.
Página 74 - Here lies Fred, Who was alive, and is dead. Had it been his father, I had much rather. Had it been his brother, Still better than another. Had it been his sister, No one would have missed her. Had it been the whole generation, Still better for the nation. But since 'tis only Fred, Who was alive, and is dead, There's no more to be said.
Página 220 - like a distressed prince who calls in a powerful neighbour to his aid. I was undone by my auxiliary. When I had once called him in, I could not subsist without dependence on him.
Página 337 - How blest is he who crowns, in shades like these, A youth of labour with an age of ease...
Página 165 - Great Jonson did by strength of judgment please, Yet, doubling Fletcher's force, he wants his ease. In differing talents both adorned their age, One for the study, t'other for the stage.
Página 119 - I lay, and woo the cooler wind. " I miss thee when by Gunga's stream my twilight steps I guide, But most beneath the lamp's pale beam I miss thee from my side.
Página 188 - The marriage, if uncontradicted report can be credited, made no addition to his happiness ; it neither found them nor made them equal. She always remembered her own rank, and thought herself entitled to treat with very little ceremony the tutor of her son.