 ... little printer's boy, with the last scratches and corrections on the proof, and a fine flourish by way of Finis at the story's end. The last corrections ? I say those last corrections seem never to be finished. A plague upon the weeds ! Every day,...  London Society - Page 1521888Full view - About this book
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1867 - 1867 - 432 pages
...garden-plot, I spy some, and should like to have a spud, and root them out. Those idle words, neighbor, are past remedy. That turning back to the old pages...pay a pretty fine to be able to cancel some of them? O, the sad old pages, the dull old pages! .O, the cares, the ennui, the squabbles, the repetitions,... | |
 | WI;;IAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY - 1867 - 476 pages
...be finished. A plague upon the weeds ! Every day, when I walk in my own little literary garden-plot, I spy some, and should like to have a spud, and root them out. Those idle words, neighbor, are past remedy. That turning back to the old pages produces anything but elation of mind.... | |
 | S.E.H. CHAMBERS - 1869 - 452 pages
...be finished. A plague upon the weeds ! Every day, when I walk in my own little literary garden-plot, I spy some, and should like to have a spud, and root...old pages, the dull old pages ! Oh, the cares, the amui, the squabbles, the repetitions, the old conversations over and over again ! But now and again... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1873 - 610 pages
...finished. A plague upon the wceds ! Every day, when I walk in my own little literary garden-plot, I Fj>V some, and should like to have a spud, and root them out. Those idle words, neighbor, are past remedy. That turning back to the old pages produces nny thing hut elation of mind.... | |
 | William Swinton - American literature - 1880 - 694 pages
...finished. A plague upon the weeds ! 330 Every day, when I walk in my own little literary garden-plot, I spy some, and should like -to have a spud* and root them out. Those idle words, neighbor, are past remedy. That turning back to the old pages produces anything but elation of mind.... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1881 - 878 pages
...be finished. A plague upon the weeds ! Every day, when I walk in my own little literary garden-plot, I spy some, and should like to have a spud, and root them out. Those idle words, neighbor, are past remedy. That turning back to the old pages produces anything but elation of mind.... | |
 | William Swinton - English literature - 1882 - 686 pages
...The pupil should name the books in which the several characters mentioned in this paragraph occur. back to the old pages produces anything but elation...not pay a pretty fine to be able to cancel some of 335 them ? Oh, the sad old pages, the dull old pages ! Oh, the cares, the ennui, the squabbles, the... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - England - 1882 - 874 pages
...be finished. A plague upon tinweeds ! Every da}-, when I walk in my own little literary garden-plot, I spy some, and should like to have a spud, and root them out. Those idle words, neighbor, are past remedy. That turning back to the old pages produces anything but elation of mind.... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1883 - 668 pages
...finished. A plague upon the weeds .' Every day, when I walk in my own little literary garden-plot, I spy some, and should like to have a spud, and root them out. Those idle words, neighbor, are past remedy. That turning back to the old pages produces anything but elation of mind.... | |
 | William Swinton - American literature - 1886 - 690 pages
...finished. A plague upon the weeds ! 330 Every day, when I walk in my own little literary garden-plot, I spy some, and should like to have a spud* and root them out. Those idle words, neighbor, are past remedy. That turning 544 back to the old pages produces anything but elation of... | |
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