The Works of William Makepeace Thackeray: The book of snobs and Sketches and travels in LondonSmith, Elder, & Company, 1884 - English literature |
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Page vii - The Snob : a Literary and Scientific Journal," NOT "conducted by members of the University,
Page 382 - Next to eating good dinners, a healthy man with a benevolent turn of mind must like, I think, to read about them. When I was a boy, I had by heart the Barmecide's feast in the "Arabian Nights;" and the culinary passages in Scott's novels (in which works there is a deal of good eating) always were my favorites.
Page 264 - Bob, a mixture of love and wit — who can equal this great genius ? There are little words and phrases in his books which are like personal benefits to the reader. What a place it is to hold in the affections of men ! What an awful responsibility hanging over a writer ! What man holding such a place, and knowing that his words go forth to vast congregations of mankind — to grown folks, to their children, and perhaps...
Page 8 - I must think I acted with considerable prudence. Being at Constantinople a few years since — (on a delicate mission), — the Russians were playing a double game, between ourselves, and it became necessary on our part to employ an extra...
Page 450 - The Lord giveth, and the Lord taketh away," — on a Monday morning, at eight o'clock, this man is placed under a beam, with a rope connecting it and him; a plank disappears from under him, and those who have paid for good places may see the hands of the government agent, Jack Ketch, coming up from his black hole, and seizing the prisoner's legs, and pulling them, until he is quite dead — strangled.
Page 318 - What, indeed, does not that word "cheerfulness" imply? It means a contented spirit, it means a pure heart, it means a kind and loving disposition ; it means humility and charity ; it means a generous appreciation of others, and a modest opinion, of self. Stupid people, people who do not know how to laugh, are always pompous and self-conceited ; that is, bigoted ; that is, cruel ; that is, ungentle, uncharitable, unchristian. Have a good, jolly, laughing, kind woman, then, for your partner, you who...