Thackeray's Works, Volume 13Estes & Lauriat, 1891 - English literature |
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... mother ! " And then the critic , if in a vir- tuous mood , may indulge in some fine writing regard- ing the holy beauteousness of maternal affection . Why not ? If authors sneer , it is the critic's business to sneer at them for ...
... mother ! " And then the critic , if in a vir- tuous mood , may indulge in some fine writing regard- ing the holy beauteousness of maternal affection . Why not ? If authors sneer , it is the critic's business to sneer at them for ...
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... mother's first - cousin . Tommy was taught hymns , very soon after he could speak , appropriate to his tender age , pointing out to him the inevitable fate of wicked children , and giving him the earliest possible warning and ...
... mother's first - cousin . Tommy was taught hymns , very soon after he could speak , appropriate to his tender age , pointing out to him the inevitable fate of wicked children , and giving him the earliest possible warning and ...
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... mother ; and many punishments in this present life , besides those of a future and much more durable kind , which the good lady did not fail to point out that he must undoubtedly inherit . His father , at Mrs. Newcome's instigation ...
... mother ; and many punishments in this present life , besides those of a future and much more durable kind , which the good lady did not fail to point out that he must undoubtedly inherit . His father , at Mrs. Newcome's instigation ...
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... mother , was not to be made to forego her plans for the boy's reform by any such vulgar ribaldries ; and Mr. Newcome being absent in the City on his business , and Tommy refrac- tory as usual , she summoned the serious butler and the ...
... mother , was not to be made to forego her plans for the boy's reform by any such vulgar ribaldries ; and Mr. Newcome being absent in the City on his business , and Tommy refrac- tory as usual , she summoned the serious butler and the ...
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... mother showed herself to be . She nursed him through his illness ; allowed his food and medicine to be administered by no other hand ; sat up with the boy through a night of his fever , and uttered not one single reproach to her husband ...
... mother showed herself to be . She nursed him through his illness ; allowed his food and medicine to be administered by no other hand ; sat up with the boy through a night of his fever , and uttered not one single reproach to her husband ...
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Page 16 - He was a man, take him for all in all, We shall not look upon his like again: I know that statement's not original: What statement is, since Shakspere?
Page 315 - Looking tranquillity. It strikes an awe And terror on my aching sight. The tombs And monumental caves of death look cold, And shoot a chillness to my trembling heart.
Page 357 - ... confided to me subsequently as compiler of this biography, or are of such a nature that they must have happened from what we know happened after. For example, when you read such words as QVE ROMANVS on a battered Roman stone, your profound antiquarian knowledge enables you to assert that SfiNATVS POPVLVS was also inscribed there at some time or other.
Page 242 - ... from his mouth, and stooping down he kissed the little white hand with a great deal of grace and dignity. There was no point of resemblance, and yet a something in the girl's look, voice, and movements, which caused his heart to thrill, and an image out of the past to rise up and salute him. The eyes which had brightened his youth (and which he saw...
Page 10 - There was once a time when the sun used to shine brighter than it appears to do in this latter half of the nineteenth century...
Page 60 - I won't sit in the kitchen and boose in the servants' hall. As for that Tom Jones — that fellow that sells himself, sir — by heavens, my blood boils when I think of him ! I would n't sit down in the same room with such a fellow, sir. If he came in at that door, I would say, 'How dare you, you hireling ruffian, to sully with your presence an apartment where my young friend and I are conversing together ? where two gentlemen, I say, are taking their wine after dinner ? How dare you, you degraded...
Page 249 - Who was it that took the children to Astley's but Uncle Newcome? I saw him there in the midst of a cluster of these little people, all children together. He laughed delighted at Mr. Merryman's jokes in the ring. He beheld the Battle of Waterloo with breathless interest, and was amazed — amazed, by Jove, sir — at the prodigious likeness of the principal actor to the Emperor Napoleon...