The Complete Works of William Makepeace Thackeray, Band 1;Band 3Houghton, Mifflin, 1889 |
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Seite 77 - It is best to love wisely, no doubt : but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all. Some of us can't : and are proud of our impotence too. At the end of his speech, Pen again kissed the imperial hand with rapture — and I believe it was at this very moment, and while Mrs.
Seite 361 - ... dressed, and (must it be owned ?) somewhat dirty — were here smoking and drinking, and vociferously applauding the songs ; young University bucks were to be found here, too, with that indescribable genteel simper which is only learned at the knees of Alma Mater ; and handsome young guardsmen, and florid bucks from the St. James's-street Clubs ; nay, senators, English and Irish ; and even members of the House of Peers. The bass singer had made an immense hit with his song of " The Body Snatcher,"...
Seite 414 - Pall Mall Gazette — why Pall Mall Gazette?" asked Wagg. "Because the editor was born at Dublin, the sub-editor at Cork, because the proprietor lives in Paternoster Row; — and the paper is published in Catherine Street, Strand. Won't that reason suffice you, Wagg?
Seite 375 - ALTHOUGH I enter not, Yet round about the spot Ofttimes I hover ; And near the sacred gate, With longing eyes I wait, Expectant of her. The Minster bell tolls out Above the city's rout, And noise and humming : They've hush'd the Minster bell : The organ 'gins to swell : She's coming, she's coming...
Seite 159 - Clavering westwards towards the sea — the place appears to be so cheery and comfortable that many a traveller's heart must have yearned towards it from the coach-top, and he must have thought that it was in such a calm, friendly nook he would like to shelter at the end of life's struggle.
Seite 346 - The one could afford time to think, and the other never could. The one could have sympathies and do kindnesses; and the other must needs be always selfish. He could not cultivate a friendship or do a charity, or admire a work of genius, or kindle at the sight of beauty or the sound of a sweet song — he had no time, and no eyes for anything but his law-books.