The Works of William Makepeace Thackeray: The four Georges and The English humouristsSmith, Elder, 1885 |
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... believe in her wrong . Like Mary of Scotland , she finds adherents ready to conspire for her even in history , and people who have to deal with her are charmed , and fascinated , and bedevilled . How devotedly Miss Strickland has stood ...
... believe in her wrong . Like Mary of Scotland , she finds adherents ready to conspire for her even in history , and people who have to deal with her are charmed , and fascinated , and bedevilled . How devotedly Miss Strickland has stood ...
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... believe the practice still remains , not for gambling , but for pastime . Our ancestors generally adopted it . ' Books ! prithee , don't talk to me about books , " said old Sarah Marl- borough . " The only books I know are men and cards ...
... believe the practice still remains , not for gambling , but for pastime . Our ancestors generally adopted it . ' Books ! prithee , don't talk to me about books , " said old Sarah Marl- borough . " The only books I know are men and cards ...
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... believe in his religion , though , thank Heaven , he is not so great a rogue as a lawyer . He goes on Mr. Selwyn's errands , any errands , and is proud , he says , to be that gentle- man's proveditor . He waits upon the Duke of ...
... believe in his religion , though , thank Heaven , he is not so great a rogue as a lawyer . He goes on Mr. Selwyn's errands , any errands , and is proud , he says , to be that gentle- man's proveditor . He waits upon the Duke of ...
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... believe it is by persons believing themselves in the right that nine - tenths of the tyranny of this world has been perpetrated . Arguing on that convenient premiss , the Dey of Algiers would cut off twenty heads of a morning ; Father ...
... believe it is by persons believing themselves in the right that nine - tenths of the tyranny of this world has been perpetrated . Arguing on that convenient premiss , the Dey of Algiers would cut off twenty heads of a morning ; Father ...
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... believe ; no charge of crime which our furious prejudice would not credit . I thought at one time of making a collection of the lies which the French had written against us , and we had published against them during the war : it would ...
... believe ; no charge of crime which our furious prejudice would not credit . I thought at one time of making a collection of the lies which the French had written against us , and we had published against them during the war : it would ...
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337 ページ - 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...
224 ページ - 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...
327 ページ - 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.
147 ページ - 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.
74 ページ - 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.
220 ページ - 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.
337 ページ - How blest is he who crowns, in shades like these, A youth of labour with an age of ease...
165 ページ - 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.
119 ページ - 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.
188 ページ - 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.