 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1863 - 316 pages
...wonderful store of learning was ranged! what strange lore would he not fetch for you at your bidding! A volume of law or history, a book of poetry familiar...spoke to him once about Clarissa. "Not read Clarissa!' 1 '' he cried out. "If you have once thoroughly entered on Clarissa, and are infected by it, you can't... | |
 | Richard Green Parker, James Madison Watson - Elocution - 1866 - 618 pages
...wonderful store of learning was ranged ! — what strange lore would he not fetch for you at your bidding! A volume of law or history, a book of poetry familiar...nothing), a novel ever so old, and he had it at hand ! 5. "With regard to Macaulay's style, there may be faults of course ; but we are not talking about... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1867 - 544 pages
...wonderful store of learning was ranged!—what strange lore would he not fetch for you at your bidding! * A volume of law or history, a book of poetry familiar...nothing), a novel ever so old, and he had it at hand! 13. With regard to Macaulay's style, there may be faults of course; but we are not talking about faults.... | |
 | Epes Sargent - Readers - 1868 - 544 pages
...his lecturing for the first time in London, he saw, on looking over the house, before going forward law or history, a book of poetry familiar or forgotten...who forgot nothing), a novel ever so old, and he had it-at hand! 13. With regard to Macaulay's style, there may be faults of course; but we are not talking... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1870 - 538 pages
...the first time in London, he saw, on looking over the bouse, before going forward law or history > n book of poetry familiar or forgotten (except by himself,...nothing), a novel ever so old, and he had it at hand ! 13. With regard to Macaulay's style, there may be faults of course ; but we are not talking about... | |
 | Epes Sargent - Readers and speakers - 1871 - 536 pages
...— what strange lore would he not fetch for you at your bidding ! * A volume of law or history v ft book of poetry familiar or forgotten (except by himself,...nothing), a novel ever so old, and he had it at hand ! 13. With regard to Macaulay's style, there may be faults of course ; but we are not talking about... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1872 - 660 pages
...wonderful store of learning was ranged ! what strange lore would he not fetch for you at your bidding ! A volume of law, or history, a book of poetry familiar...him once about " Clarissa." " Not read ' Clarissa I'" he cried out. " If you have once thoroughly entered on ' Clarissa ' and are infected by it, you... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1873 - 610 pages
...wonderful store of learning was ranged ! what strange lore would he not fetch for you at your bidding ! A volume of law, or history, a book of poetry familiar...thoroughly entered on ' Clarissa' and are infected by it, yon can't leave it. When I was in India I passed one hot season at the hills, and there were the Governor-General,... | |
 | Richard Green Parker, James Madison Watson - Readers (Elementary) - 1873 - 614 pages
...wonderful store of learning was ranged ! — what strange lore would he not fetch for you at your bidding ! A volume of law or history, a book of poetry familiar...nothing), a novel ever so old, and he had it at hand ! 6. With regard to Macaulay's style, there may be faults of course ; but we are not talking about... | |
 | George Otto Trevelyan - Historians - 1876 - 430 pages
...one or two slight inaccuracies in order to have the story told by Thackeray. " 1 spoke to him onco about ' Clarissa.' ' Not read " Clarissa !" ' he cried out. 'If you have once read "Clarissa," and are infected by it, you can't leave it. When I was in India I passed one hot season... | |
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Clarissa." " Not read 'Clarissa!'" he cried out. "If you have once thoroughly entered on ' Clarissa ' and are infected by it, you can't leave it. When I was in India I passed one hot season at the hills, and there were the Governor-General, and the Secretary... 
