Some Aspects of ThackerayChapters include: Thackeray and the Dignity of Literature, Thackeray as a Reader and Critic of Books, Thackeray's Ballads, Thackeray and the Newgate School of Fiction, Thackeray as Artist, Thackeray and His Illustrations, Thackeray's Originals, The London of "Esmond" and "The Virginians", Some Editions of Thackeray, Thackeray and Dickens, The Cult of Thackeray, Thackeray and the Stage, Thackeray's "New Sketch Book", and Mr. Whibley on Thackeray. Includes 52 terrific full-page plates. Lewis Melville was also the author of The Life of William Makepeace Thackeray and The Thackeray Country. |
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Page 67 - Come wealth or want, come good or ill, Let young and old accept their part, And bow before the Awful Will, And bear it with an honest heart, Who misses or who wins the prize. Go, lose or conquer as you can ; But if you fail, or if you rise, Be each, pray God, a gentleman.
Page 231 - No more firing was heard at Brussels — the pursuit rolled miles away. Darkness came down on the field and city : and Amelia was praying for George, who was lying on his face, dead, with a bullet through his heart.
Page 178 - At the usual evening hour the chapel bell began to toll, and Thomas Newcome's hands outside the bed feebly beat time. And just as the last bell struck, a peculiar sweet smile shone over his face, and he lifted up his head a little, and quickly said, "Adsum!
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Page 179 - ... began to toll, and Thomas Newcome's hands outside the bed feebly beat time. And just as the last bell struck, a peculiar sweet smile shone over his face, and he lifted up his head a little, and quickly said, " Adsum! " and fell back. It was the word we used at school, when names were called; and lo, he, whose heart was as that of a little child, had answered to his name, and stood in the presence of The Master.
Page 163 - I was smoking in a tavern parlour one night — and this Costigan came into the room alive — the very man : — the most remarkable resemblance of the printed sketches of the man, of the rude drawings in which I had depicted him. He had the same little coat, the same battered hat, cocked on one eye, the same twinkle in that eye.
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