The Works of William Makepeace Thackeray: The Paris sketch book and Little travels and road-side sketchesSmith, Elder, 1885 |
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Pàgina 369 - gallant comrades' rank, and where they fell. The stateliest monument of human pride, Enriched with all magnificence of art. To honour chieftains who in victory died, Would wake no stronger feeling in the heart Than these plain tablets by the soldier's hand Raised to his comrades in a foreign land.
Pàgina 178 - the line, with bronzed wondering faces, marching together in little companies of six or seven, and stopping every now and then at Napoleon or Leonidas as they appear in proper vulgar heroics in the pictures of David or Gros. The taste of these people will hardly be approved by the connoisseur, but
Pàgina 189 - eloquence; the female sex distinguished themselves by their taste and ingenuity. Miss Carter rivalled the celebrated Dacier in learning and critical knowledge ; Mrs. Lennox signalised herself by many successful efforts of genius both in poetry and prose; and Miss Eeid excelled the celebrated Rosalba in
Pàgina 49 - Academy ? is a question which has been considerably mooted in England (in the neighbourhood of Suffolk Street especially). The hundreds of French samples are, I think, not very satisfactory. The subjects are almost all what are called classical: Orestes pursued by every variety of Furies ; numbers of little wolf-sucking
Pàgina 43 - but leaves her, for the most part, to take care of the children at home. The fete, then, is over; the pompous black pyramid at the Louvre is only a skeleton now; all the flags have been miraculously whisked away during the night, and the fine chandeliers which glittered down the Champs Elysees for full
Pàgina 220 - replied Mercurius, wagging his tail right waggishly; "and, what is more, I will lay thee any wager that not one of these will say a prayer to save thee." "I would wager willingly," responded he of Chauchigny. " but what has a poor soul like me to stake'? " "Every evening, after the day's roasting, my Lord
Pàgina 177 - or for the pages of any Book of Beauty, Royalty, or Loveliness whatever. Can there be a more pleasing walk in the whole world than a stroll through the Gallery of the Louvre on a fete-day; not to look so much at the pictures as at the lookers-on ? Thousands of the poorer classes are there : mechanics in their
Pàgina 190 - and lo ! without any of the trouble that the parents of Ealph had undergone, alone perhaps in a watch- or spunging-house, fuddled most likely, in the blandest, easiest, and most good-humoured way in the world, Henry Fielding makes a number of men and women on so many sheets of paper, not only more amusing than Ealph or
Pàgina 254 - I heard, from the depths of the gloom through which I had passed, confused noises, like those of a multitude on its march. And the sounds soon became more distinct, and the clamour fiercer, and the steps came hurrying on tumultuously—at every new burst nearer. more violent, more threatening. I thought that I was pursued
Pàgina 154 - the Eepublic. Do you know," said he, turning to Edward Ancel, "where the least of these crimes, or the mere suspicion of them, would lead you ? " Poor Edward sat trembling in his chair, and answered not; a word. He knew full well how quickly, in this dreadful time , punishment followed suspicion; and though guiltless of