 ... the young members of his calling; in his professional bargains and mercantile dealings, delicately honest and grateful; one of the most charming masters of our lighter language; the constant friend to us and our nation ; to men of letters doubly dear,...  American Monthly Knickerbocker - Page 901864Full view - About this book
 | Literature - 1864 - 764 pages
...grateful ; one of the most charming masters of our language; the constant friend to us and our nation ; to men of letters doubly dear, not for his wit and...merely, but as an exemplar of goodness, probity, and a pure life. I don't know what sort of testimonial will be raised to him in his own country, where... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - English essays - 1863 - 316 pages
...one of the most charming masters of our lighter language; the constant friend to us and our nation ; to men of letters doubly dear, not for his wit and...acknowledgment of American merit is never wanting; but Irving was in our service as well as theirs; and as they have placed a stone at Greenwich yonder^ in... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1863 - 418 pages
...one of the most charming masters of our lighter language; the constant friend to us and our nation ; to men of letters doubly dear, not for his wit and...acknowledgment of American merit is never wanting; but Irving was in our service as well as theirs; and as they have placed a stone at Greenwich yonder in... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1829 - 754 pages
...one of the most charming masters of our lighter language ; the constant friend to us and our nation ; to men of letters doubly dear, not for his wit and...in his own country, where generous and enthusiastic acknowledgement of American merit is never wanting : but Irving was in our service as well as theirs... | |
 | Richard Green Parker, James Madison Watson - Elocution - 1866 - 618 pages
...one of the most charming masters of our lighter language ; the constant friend to us and our nation ; to men of letters doubly dear, not for his wit and...merely, but as an exemplar of goodness, probity, and a pure life ! n. 78. IRVING AND MACAULAY. PART SECOND. AS for Macaulay, whose departure many friends,... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1867 - 544 pages
...one of the most charming masters of our lighter language; the constant friend to us and our nation; to men of letters doubly dear, not for his wit and...merely, but as an exemplar of goodness, probity, and a pure life! 10. As for the other writer, whose departure many friends, some few most dearly-loved... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1869 - 444 pages
...one of the most charming masters of our lighter language ; the constant friend to us and our nation : to men of letters doubly dear, not for his wit and genius merely, but as an examplar of goodness, probity, and pure life :—I don't know what sort of testimonial will be raised... | |
 | S.E.H. CHAMBERS - 1869 - 452 pages
...one of the most charming masters of our lighter language ; the constant friend to us and our nation; to men of letters doubly dear, not for his wit and genius merely, but as an examplar of goodness, probity, and pure life:—I don't know what sort of testimonial will be raised... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - England - 1869 - 450 pages
...one of the most charming masters of our lighter language ; the constant friend to us and our nation ; to men of letters doubly dear, not for his wit and genius merely, but as an examplar of goodness, probity, and pure life : — I don't know what sort of testimonial will be raised... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1870 - 538 pages
...one of the most charming masters of our lighter language; the constant friend to us and our nation ; to men of letters doubly dear, not for his wit and...merely, but as an exemplar of goodness, probity, and a pure life! 10. As for the other writer, whose departure many friends, some few most dearly-loved... | |
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