 | Laurence Sterne - English literature - 1882 - 500 pages
...is a prodigy; for at eighty-five he has all the wit and promptness of a man of thirty. A disposition to be pleased, and a power to please others beyond whatever I knew : added to which, a man of learning, courtesy, and feeling. He heard me talk of thee, Eliza., with uncommon satisfaction... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - England - 1882 - 874 pages
...nobleman, I say, is a prodigy, for he has all the wit and promptness of a man of thirty ; a disposition to be pleased, and a power to please others, beyond whatever I knew : added to which a man of learning, courtes}', and feeling. " He heard me talk of thee, Eliza, with uncommon satisfaction... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1883 - 668 pages
...nobleman, I say, is a prodigy, for he has all the wit and promptness of a man of thirty ; a disposition to be pleased, and a power to please others, beyond whatever I knew : added to which a man of learning, courtesy, and feeling. " He heard me talk of thee, Eliza, with uncommon satisfaction... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - English wit and humor - 1885 - 572 pages
...nobleman, I say, is a prodigy, for he has all the wit and promptness of a man of thirty; a disposition to be pleased, and a power to please others, beyond whatever I knew ; added to which a man of learning, courtesy and feeling." " He heard me talk of thee, Eliza, with uncommon satisfaction... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - English literature - 1885 - 416 pages
...nobleman, I say, is a prodigy, for he has all the wit and promptness of a man of thirty ; a disposition to be pleased, and a power to please others, beyond whatever I knew : added to which a man of learning, courtesy, and feeling. " He heard me talk of thee, Eliza, with uncommon satisfaction... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1886 - 876 pages
...nobleman, I sa3T, is a prodigy, for he has all the wit and promptness of a man of thirty ; a disposition to be pleased, and a power to please others, beyond whatever I knew : added to which a man of learning, courtesy, and feeling. " He heard me talk of thee, Eliza, with uncommon satisfaction... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1886 - 914 pages
...nobleman, I say, is a prodigy, for he has all the wit and promptness of a man of thirty ; a disposition to be pleased, and a power to please others, beyond whatever I knew : added to which a man of learning, courtesy, and feeling. " He heard me talk of thee, Eliza, with uncommon satisfaction... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - English literature - 1889 - 554 pages
...nobleman, I say, is a prodigy, for he has all the wit and promptness of a man of thirty ; a disposition to be pleased, and a power to please others, beyond whatever I knew : added to which a man of learning, courtesy, and feeling. " He heard me talk of thee, Eliza, with uncommon satisfaction... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - English literature - 1891 - 498 pages
...nobleman, I say, is a prodigy, for he has all the wit and promptness of a man of thirty ; a disposition to be pleased, and a power to please others, beyond whatever I knew: added to which a man of learning, courtesy, and feeling. " He heard me talk of thee, Eliza, with uncommon satisfaction... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - English literature - 1896 - 510 pages
...nobleman, I say, is a prodigy, for he has all the wit and promptness of a man of thirty ; a disposition to be pleased, and a power to please others, beyond whatever I knew: added to which a man of learning, courtesy, and feeling. " He heard me talk of thee, Eliza, with uncommon satisfaction... | |
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This nobleman, I say, is a prodigy, for he has all the wit and promptness of a man of thirty; a disposition to be pleased, and a power to please others, beyond whatever I knew ; added to which a man of learning, courtesy and feeling. 
