In Thackeray's London: Pictures and TextDoubleday, Page, 1913 - 199 pages |
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... day , at which some of the Poor Brothers grumble , I think an old fellow can't do better . " " • • · Three or four of them , when my work was finished and Evins had carried my traps to the taxi , shook 10 IN THACKERAY'S LONDON.
... day , at which some of the Poor Brothers grumble , I think an old fellow can't do better . " " • • · Three or four of them , when my work was finished and Evins had carried my traps to the taxi , shook 10 IN THACKERAY'S LONDON.
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Pictures and Text Francis Hopkinson Smith. Evins had carried my traps to the taxi , shook hands with me in parting , and one old fellow walked with me as far as the gate , his long black Pensioner's cloak flapping about his unsteady legs ...
Pictures and Text Francis Hopkinson Smith. Evins had carried my traps to the taxi , shook hands with me in parting , and one old fellow walked with me as far as the gate , his long black Pensioner's cloak flapping about his unsteady legs ...
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... Evins ( now my right - hand man ) , outside the gate with instructions to call for me in the late afternoon , and made my way along the open court to the rooms of Colonel Thomas Newcome . Above the white , well - scoured steps , and ...
... Evins ( now my right - hand man ) , outside the gate with instructions to call for me in the late afternoon , and made my way along the open court to the rooms of Colonel Thomas Newcome . Above the white , well - scoured steps , and ...
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... Evins , my chauf- feur , was at the wheel . The " miry pens , " filled with the cattle of the period , are replaced now by high glass - covered sheds under which pass huge wagons drawn by great Normandy horses , loaded down with most of ...
... Evins , my chauf- feur , was at the wheel . The " miry pens , " filled with the cattle of the period , are replaced now by high glass - covered sheds under which pass huge wagons drawn by great Normandy horses , loaded down with most of ...
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... Evins ? " " Yes , sir . ' " During the Boer War ? " " Yes , sir . " " And where did you get that crack ? ” " At Spion Kop , sir . I had another through my sleeve that burned the skin off me arm , but it didn't amount to anything . It ...
... Evins ? " " Yes , sir . ' " During the Boer War ? " " Yes , sir . " " And where did you get that crack ? ” " At Spion Kop , sir . I had another through my sleeve that burned the skin off me arm , but it didn't amount to anything . It ...
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Page 150 - I received one morning a message from poor Goldsmith that he was in great distress, and, as it was not in his power to come to me, begging that I would come to him as soon as possible. I sent him a guinea, and promised to come to him directly. I accordingly went as soon as I was dressed, and found that his landlady had arrested him for his rent, at which he was in a violent passion. I perceived that he had already changed my guinea, and had got a bottle of Madeira and a glass before him. I put the...
Page 37 - I have been young, and now am old ; yet have I not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his seed begging bread.
Page 153 - ... which he might be extricated. He then told me that he had a novel ready for the press, which he produced to me. I looked into it, and saw its merit ; told the landlady I should soon return, and having gone to a bookseller, sold it for sixty pounds. I brought Goldsmith the money, and he discharged his rent, not without rating his landlady in a high tone for having used him so ill.
Page 95 - You innocent! Why, every trinket you have on your body is paid for by me. I have given you thousands of pounds which this fellow has spent, and for which he has sold you. Innocent, by—! You're as innocent as your mother, the balletgirl, and your husband the bully. Don't think to frighten me as you have done others. Make way, sir, and let me pass"; and Lord Steyne seized up his hat, and, with flame in his eyes, and looking his enemy fiercely in the face, marched upon him, never for a moment doubting...
Page 93 - He was in the ball dress in which he had been captured the night before. He went silently up the stairs, leaning against the banisters at the stairhead. Nobody was stirring in the house besides: all the servants had been sent away. Rawdon heard laughter within — laughter and singing. Becky was singing a snatch of the song of the night before; a hoarse voice shouted "Brava! Brava!
Page 179 - Sir Roger de Coverley walking in the Temple Garden, and discoursing with Mr. Spectator about the beauties in hoops and patches who are sauntering over the grass, is just as lively a figure to me as old Samuel Johnson rolling through the fog with the Scotch gentleman at his heels on their way to Dr. Goldsmith's chambers in Brick Court ; or Harry Fielding, with inked ruffles and a wet towel round his head, dashing off articles at midnight for the Covent Garden Journal, while the printer's boy is asleep...
Page 38 - ... mistaking him. He wore the black gown of the pensioners of the Hospital of Grey Friars. His order of the Bath was on his breast. He stood there amongst the poor brethren, uttering the responses to the psalm. The steps of this good man had been ordered hither by Heaven's decree; to this almshouse! Here it was ordained that a life all love, and kindness, and honour, should end! I heard no more of prayers, and psalms, and sermon, after that.
Page 96 - Why have I alluded to this man? I have alluded to him, Reader, because I think I see in him an intellect profounder and more unique than his contemporaries have yet recognized ; because I regard him as the first social regenerator of the day — as the very master of that working corps who would restore to rectitude the warped system of things...
Page 37 - A plenty of candles lights up this chapel, and this scene of age and youth, and early memories, and pompous death. How solemn the well-remembered prayers are, here uttered again in the place where in childhood we used to hear them ! How beautiful and decorous the rite ; how noble the ancient words of the supplications which the priest utters, and to which generations of fresh children, and troops of bygone seniors have cried Amen...
Page 70 - He had a particular delight in boys, and an excellent way with them. I remember his once asking me with fantastic gravity, when he had been to Eton where my eldest son then was, whether I felt as he did in regard of never seeing a boy without wanting instantly to give him a sovereign? I thought of this when I looked down into his grave, after he was laid there, for I looked down into it over the shoulder of a boy to whom he had been kind.
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Thackeray and His Twentieth-century Critics: An Annotated Bibliography, 1900 ... John Charles Olmsted No preview available - 1977 |