Roundabout Papers: (From the Cornhill Magazine) To which is Added, The Second Funeral of Napoleon; The Four Georges; The English Humorists of the Eighteenth Century; Critical Reviews and Selections (from Punch).R. Worthington, 1884 - 642 páginas |
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... seem as if they were singing . To them enters an old moollah , he takes down their names , and orders them all to go to bed . What is this ? a car- riage , with four beautiful horses all galloping - a man in red is blowing a trumpet ...
... seem as if they were singing . To them enters an old moollah , he takes down their names , and orders them all to go to bed . What is this ? a car- riage , with four beautiful horses all galloping - a man in red is blowing a trumpet ...
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... seem to be a whit less at home than in fashion's gilded halls : and now they are at Newgate , seeing the irons knocked off the malefactors ' legs previous to execution . What hardened ferocity in the countenance of the desperado in ...
... seem to be a whit less at home than in fashion's gilded halls : and now they are at Newgate , seeing the irons knocked off the malefactors ' legs previous to execution . What hardened ferocity in the countenance of the desperado in ...
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... seems almost as ghostly now as that masquerade at the Pan- theon ( 1772 ) , of which we were speaking anon . It was at a dinner of the Literary Fund , in that vast apartment which is hung round with the portraits of very large Royal ...
... seems almost as ghostly now as that masquerade at the Pan- theon ( 1772 ) , of which we were speaking anon . It was at a dinner of the Literary Fund , in that vast apartment which is hung round with the portraits of very large Royal ...
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... men ! The little feast dates back only eighteen years , and yet somehow it seems as distant as a dinner at Mr. Thrale's , or a meeting at Will's . Poor little gleam of sunshine ! very little good cheer ON A JOKE I ONCE HEARD . 73.
... men ! The little feast dates back only eighteen years , and yet somehow it seems as distant as a dinner at Mr. Thrale's , or a meeting at Will's . Poor little gleam of sunshine ! very little good cheer ON A JOKE I ONCE HEARD . 73.
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... seems to be advancing on the stalls and pit , and the whole house screams with terror , as the GHOST OF THE LATE HAMLET comes in , and begins to speak . Several people faint , and the light- fingered gentry pick pockets furiously in the ...
... seems to be advancing on the stalls and pit , and the whole house screams with terror , as the GHOST OF THE LATE HAMLET comes in , and begins to speak . Several people faint , and the light- fingered gentry pick pockets furiously in the ...
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Roundabout Papers: To which is Added The Second Funeral of Napoleon ; The ... William Makepeace Thackeray Vista de fragmentos - 1880 |
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Página 543 - Remembrance wakes with all her busy train, Swells at my breast, and turns the past to pain. In all my wanderings round this world of care, In all my griefs — and God has given my share...
Página 481 - Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And without sneering, teach the rest to sneer; Willing to wound, and yet afraid to strike, Just hint a fault and hesitate dislike...
Página 451 - I meet with the grief of parents upon a tombstone, my heart melts with compassion ; when I see the tomb of the parents themselves, I consider the vanity of grieving for those whom we must quickly follow: when I see kings lying by those who deposed them, when I consider rival wits placed side by side, or the holy men that divided the world with their contests and disputes, I reflect with sorrow and astonishment on the little competitions, factions and debates of mankind.
Página 543 - Amidst these humble bowers to lay me down ; To husband out life's taper at the close. And keep the flame from wasting by repose. I still had hopes, for pride attends us still, Amidst the swains to show my...
Página 340 - 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 543 - 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; But on he moves to meet his latter end, Angels around befriending Virtue's friend; Sinks to the grave with unperceived decay, While Resignation gently slopes the way; And, all his prospects brightening to the last, His heaven commences ere the world be past.
Página 420 - Tis not in mortals to command success, But we'll do more, Sempronius, we'll deserve it.
Página 481 - Peace to all such! but were there one whose fires True genius kindles, and fair fame inspires; Blest with each talent, and each art to please, And born to write, converse, and live with ease: Should such a man, too fond to rule alone, Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne...
Página 426 - Earth, Repeats the story of her birth : Whilst all the stars that round her burn, And all the planets, in their turn, Confirm the tidings as they roll, And spread the truth from pole to pole.
Página 613 - Long live the king ! And Gilpin, long live he ! And when he next doth ride abroad May I be there to see...