Roundabout Papers: To which is Added The Second Funeral of Napoleon : Critical Reviews : The Four Georges : The English Humorists of the Eighteenth Century : Sketches and Travels in LondonEstes and Lauriat, 1882 - 819 páginas |
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... father preparing a scolding ; - absorbed utterly and entirely in his book . What was it that so fascinated the young student , as he stood by the river shore ? Not the Pons Asinorum . What book so delighted him , and blinded him to all ...
... father preparing a scolding ; - absorbed utterly and entirely in his book . What was it that so fascinated the young student , as he stood by the river shore ? Not the Pons Asinorum . What book so delighted him , and blinded him to all ...
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... father , or the tender pleadings of his mother that he should not let the supper grow cold- I don't believe the scapegrace cared one fig . No ! Figs are sweet , but fictions are sweeter . Have you ever seen a score of white - bearded ...
... father , or the tender pleadings of his mother that he should not let the supper grow cold- I don't believe the scapegrace cared one fig . No ! Figs are sweet , but fictions are sweeter . Have you ever seen a score of white - bearded ...
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... father's face , or the cruel uncle's which was he ? I think he was the father . So this was the end of them . Not school , as I at first had imag- ined . The mother was gone , who had given them the heaps of pretty books , and the ...
... father's face , or the cruel uncle's which was he ? I think he was the father . So this was the end of them . Not school , as I at first had imag- ined . The mother was gone , who had given them the heaps of pretty books , and the ...
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... father gambled away his money , and sold their clothes ? How came they to have passed out of the hands of a refined lady ( as she evi- dently was , with whom I first saw them ) into the charge of quite a common woman like her with whom ...
... father gambled away his money , and sold their clothes ? How came they to have passed out of the hands of a refined lady ( as she evi- dently was , with whom I first saw them ) into the charge of quite a common woman like her with whom ...
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... father's decease but Mr. Brown , the senator from New York , is a silly upstart for tacking Honorable to his name , and our sturdy British good sense laughs at him . Who has not laughed ( I have myself ) at Honorable Nahum Dodge ...
... father's decease but Mr. Brown , the senator from New York , is a silly upstart for tacking Honorable to his name , and our sturdy British good sense laughs at him . Who has not laughed ( I have myself ) at Honorable Nahum Dodge ...
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Roundabout Papers: To which is Added The Second Funeral of Napoleon ... William Makepeace Thackeray Vista de fragmentos - 1882 |
Términos y frases comunes
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Página 164 - Soon as the evening shades prevail, The Moon takes up the wondrous tale; And nightly, to the listening 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 226 - 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 292 - 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 ; To husband out life's taper at the close, And keep the flame from wasting by repose...
Página 57 - The busy day, the peaceful night, Unfelt, uncounted, glided by ; His frame was firm, his powers were bright, Though now his eightieth year was nigh. Then, with no...
Página 191 - When I read the several dates of the tombs, of" some that died yesterday, and some six hundred years ago, I consider that great day when we shall all of us be contemporaries, and make our appearance together.
Página 219 - I have ever hated all nations, professions, and communities, and all my love is towards individuals; for instance, I hate the tribe of lawyers, but I love Counsellor Such-a-one and Judge Such-a-one; so with physicians — I will not speak of my own trade — soldiers, English, Scotch, French, and the rest. But principally I hate and detest that animal called man, although I heartily love John, Peter, Thomas, and so forth.
Página 95 - When, on our deck reclined, In careless ease my limbs 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. I spread my books, my pencil try The lingering noon to cheer, But miss thy kind approving eye, Thy meek attentive ear. But when...
Página 121 - A child will make two dishes at an entertainment for friends, and when the family dines alone, the fore or hind quarter will make a reasonable dish...
Página 191 - 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 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.
Página 158 - 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.