The Complete Works of William Makepeace Thackeray: Vanity fairHoughton, Mifflin, 1889 |
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Seite 23 - King Canute was weary-hearted ; he had reigned for years a score, Battling, . struggling, pushing, fighting, killing much and robbing more, And he thought upon his actions, walking by the wild seashore. ''Twixt the Chancellor and Bishop walked the King with steps sedate ; Chamberlains and grooms came after, silversticks and goldsticks great ; Chaplains, aides-de-camp, and pages, — all the officers of state. ' Sliding after like his shadow, pausing when he chose to pause, If a frown his face contracted,...
Seite viii - I am afraid. I assure you these tokens of what I can't help acknowledging as popularity, make me humble as well as grateful, and make me feel an almost awful sense of the responsibility which falls upon a man in such a station.
Seite vi - I hate Juvenal; I mean I think him a truculent brute, and I love Horace better than you do, and rate Churchill much lower; and as for Swift, you haven't made me alter my opinion. I admire, or rather admit, his power as much as you do; but I don't admire that kind of power so much as I did fifteen years ago, or twenty shall we say. Love is a higher intellectual exercise than fiatred.
Seite 271 - To dispel that ignorance, to show how man can help man, notwithstanding the complicated state of civilized society, ought to be the aim of every philanthropic person; but it is more peculiarly the duty of those who, under the blessing of Divine Providence, enjoy station, wealth, and education.
Seite 208 - BRUNSWICK. He preferred Hanover to England, He preferred two hideous Mistresses To a beautiful and innocent Wife. He hated Arts and despised Literature ; But He liked train-oil in his salads, And gave an enlightened patronage to bad oysters. And he had Walpole as a Minister : Consistent in his Preference for every kind of Corruption.
Seite 188 - I came suddenly upon two ladies. " I made my bow, and begged leave to introduce myself as ' Mr. Brown.' " With a very slight inclination of the head, and no smile whatever, one of the ladies asked me if I had walked from town, and begged her companion (without introducing me to her) to show me in to lunch.
Seite viii - If you are grati I am gratior. Such tokens of regard and sympathy are very precious to a writer like myself, who have some difficulty still in making people understand what you have been good enough to find out in Edinburgh, that under the mask satirical there walks about a sentimental gentleman who means not unkindly to any mortal person.
Seite 205 - The tracts were put into glass bottles securely corked; and, taking advantage of the tide flowing into the harbor, they were committed to the waves, on whose surface they floated towards the town, where the inhabitants eagerly took them up on their arriving at the shore. The bottles were then uncorked, and the tracts they contain are supposed to have been read with much interest.
Seite 175 - Timotheus had not been an exceedingly sensible woman, would have caused jealousy between her and the great bard her husband. But, charming and beautiful herself, Mrs. Timotheus can even pardon another woman for being so ; nay, with perfect good sense, though possibly with a little factitious enthusiasm, she professes to share to its fullest extent the admiration of the illustrious Timotheus for the young beauty.