 | English literature - 1852 - 524 pages
...help writing, who knows but that the humble historian might have taken the other side of panegyrick ? We have but to change the point of view, and the greatest...true ? And what a mean-spirited scoundrel the " hero" appears—this preux chevalier, who, we are told, has only to appear among a tribe of Indians to be... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - Great Britain - 1852 - 198 pages
...help writing, who knows but that the humble historian might have taken the other side of panegyric ? We have but to change the point of view, and the greatest...the perspective-glass, and a giant appears a pigmy. You may describe, but who can tell whether your sight is clear or not, or your means of information... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1852 - 702 pages
...help writing, who knows but that the humble historian might have taken the other side of panegyric? We have but to change the point of view, and the greatest...mean; as we turn the perspective-glass, and a giant 1 This passage In the Memoirs of Esmond is written on a leaf inserted into the MS. book, and dated... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - Great Britain - 1852 - 698 pages
...leaf inserted Into the MS. book and dated 1744, probably after he had heard of the Duchess's death. and the greatest action looks mean; as we turn the perspective-glass, and a giant appears a pigmy. You may describe, but who can tell whether your sight is clear or not, or your means of information... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - Great Britain - 1858 - 492 pages
....MS. book, and dated 1744, probably after he had heard of the Duchess's death. side of panegyric 1 We have but to change the point of view, and the greatest...the perspective-glass, and a giant appears a pigmy. You may describe, but who can tell whether vour sight is clear or not, or your means of information... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1858 - 504 pages
...death. THE DOWAGER AND THE DUCHESS. 239 aide of panegyric? We have but to change the point of view, aud the greatest action looks mean ; as we turn the perspective-glass, and a giant appears a pigmy. You may describe, but who can tell whether your sight is clear or not, or your means of information... | |
 | 1863 - 594 pages
...that is not bearable ; no hardship evon in honest dependence that an honest man may not put up with. We have but to change the point of view, and the greatest actions look mean ; as we turn the perspective glass and a giant becomes a pigmy. No one knows how... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1909 - 882 pages
...help writing, who knows but that the humble historian might have taken the other side of panegyric ? We have but to change the point of view, and the greatest...the perspective-glass, and a giant appears a pigmy. You may describe, but who can tell whether your sight is clear or not, or your means of information... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - England - 1868 - 498 pages
...help writing, who knows but that the humble historian might have taken the other side of panegyric ? We have but to change the point of view, and the greatest...the perspective-glass, and a giant appears a pigmy. You may describe, but who can tell whether your sight is clear or not, or your means of information... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1881 - 886 pages
...help writing, who knows but that the humble historian might have taken the other side of panegyric? We have but to change the point of view, and the greatest...the perspective-glass, and a giant appears a pigmy. You may describe, but who can tell whether your sight is clear or not, or your means of information... | |
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We have but to change the point of view, and the greatest action looks mean ; as we turn the perspective-glass, and a giant appears a pigmy. 
