Fragments from the Past: 1832-1907 |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 65
Page 9
... dead . With Mathias I used to punt and with Harper ( who was my greatest friend afterwards at college , having rooms opposite to me at Merton in Mob quad ) , I shared a boat , in which we took long rows . My tutor constantly urged me to ...
... dead . With Mathias I used to punt and with Harper ( who was my greatest friend afterwards at college , having rooms opposite to me at Merton in Mob quad ) , I shared a boat , in which we took long rows . My tutor constantly urged me to ...
Page 55
... dead , I had secured in their place Lord Arthur Hervey and Fitzjames Stephen . Many friends were very kind in getting votes for me , especially Mrs. Ritchie , Mrs. Bayne and Dr. Goodford . April 24th . Went for the first time to the ...
... dead , I had secured in their place Lord Arthur Hervey and Fitzjames Stephen . Many friends were very kind in getting votes for me , especially Mrs. Ritchie , Mrs. Bayne and Dr. Goodford . April 24th . Went for the first time to the ...
Page 70
... dead . She was always very kind to me and to the children . October 18th . Walked with the H.M. He told me his father was with Nelson , and at the mutiny of the Nore . October 27th . Heard from Wyndham that £ 680 was left me by my Aunt ...
... dead . She was always very kind to me and to the children . October 18th . Walked with the H.M. He told me his father was with Nelson , and at the mutiny of the Nore . October 27th . Heard from Wyndham that £ 680 was left me by my Aunt ...
Page 73
... dead ( æt . 80 ) . Cameron was great in conversation , having been at Constantinople , and having once had an audience with Pio Nono . Blanche has sent me a very nice address given in the English Chapel at Paris on Charlotte Ritchie ...
... dead ( æt . 80 ) . Cameron was great in conversation , having been at Constantinople , and having once had an audience with Pio Nono . Blanche has sent me a very nice address given in the English Chapel at Paris on Charlotte Ritchie ...
Page 78
... dead ( æt . 29 ) . June 4th . Took Lily and Theodosia for their first time to the Fireworks . June 14th . Harry is not quite well , but is doing his Greek as usual this morning . June 18th . Some talk about Diet which threw me off my ...
... dead ( æt . 29 ) . June 4th . Took Lily and Theodosia for their first time to the Fireworks . June 14th . Harry is not quite well , but is doing his Greek as usual this morning . June 18th . Some talk about Diet which threw me off my ...
Other editions - View all
Fragments From the Past, 1832-1907 (Classic Reprint) Francis St. John Thackeray No preview available - 2018 |
Common terms and phrases
Ada and Harry Ada and Lily Adam Storey Farrar afterwards April Arthur Balfour asked Athenæum August Bayne beautiful Bishop boys brought Broxbourne Canon Chapel Charlotte Ritchie Christopher Rawlinson Church Coleridge College Cornish Dear Ada Dear Louisa December 13th December 31st died dined dinner Eastbourne Edward Edward Lyttelton Eton father February Fordingbridge fossils garden gave going gone Greek Gregory Smith Hardwick Harry's Head Master hear heard holidays Hornby House interesting Isabella January 1st January 7th John Irvine Joynes July June kind kindly Lady letter looked Lord Loring lovely lunch Mapledurham Mapledurham House March Miss mother nice night November October old pupil Oolite Oxford party preached Provost Prudentius reading Richmond Ritchie Ritchie Rome School sent September Sermon stay talked Tennyson Thackeray thankful Theo Theodosia to-day told took tour town Vicarage walked Welldon William William Makepeace Thackeray wrote
Popular passages
Page 227 - Quick, thy tablets, Memory!" Ah, too true! Time's current strong Leaves us fixt to nothing long. Yet, if little stays with man, Ah, retain we all we can ! If the clear impression dies, Ah, the dim remembrance prize! Ere the parting hour go by, Quick, thy tablets, Memory!
Page 235 - O lieb, so lang' du lieben kannst ! O lieb, so lang' du lieben magst! Die Stunde kommt, die Stunde kommt, wo du an Gräbern stehst und klagst...
Page 234 - We've got two bosses in our carriage now. The Magazine goes on increasing, and how much do you think my next twelve months' earnings and receipts will be if I work ? £10,000.
Page 134 - We thus find that the Darwinian theory, even when carried out to its extreme logical conclusion, not only does not oppose, but lends a decided support to, a belief in the spiritual nature of man. It shows us how man's body may have been developed from that of a lower animal form under the law of natural selection ; but it also teaches us that we possess intellectual and moral faculties which could not have been so developed, but must have had another origin ; and for this origin we can only find...
Page 207 - TERMINUS It is time to be old, To take in sail: — The god of bounds, Who sets to seas a shore, Came to me in his fatal rounds, And said: "No more!
Page 215 - WILL my tiny spark of being wholly vanish in your deeps and heights? Must my day be dark by reason, O ye Heavens, of your boundless nights, Rush of Suns, and roll of systems, and your fiery clash of meteorites?
Page 134 - It shows us how man's body may have been developed from that of a lower animal form under the law of natural selection ; but it also teaches us that we possess intellectual and moral faculties which could not have been so developed, but must have had another origin ; and for this origin we can only find an adequate cause in the unseen universe of Spirit INDEX ABBOTT, Dr.
Page 234 - March xoth, 1863, on the occasion of the wedding of the Prince of Wales, I saw him, I think, for the last time. It was on the platform of the Great Western Railway station at Windsor as the crowd of visitors, with their diamonds and court-dresses, looking somewhat ghastly in the broad daylight, was returning by special train to London. He seemed amused at the scene, and pointed out to me several personages of note. On Christmas Eve of that year he died suddenly in the night, in his fifty-third year.
Page 230 - This was when he was lying in bed, in one of his attacks of illness. On these delightful visits he would spare no pains in taking me to places of amusement — the play, or the pantomime — sometimes after an excellent dinner at the Garrick Club, where I remember his checking some one in the act of blurting out an oath, the utterance of which he would not tolerate in my presence.
Page 94 - Occasions cannot make Spurs. If you expect to wear Spurs you must win them. If you wish to use them you must buckle them to your own heels before you go into the Fight.