Thackeray and His Daughter: The Letters and Journals of Anne Thackeray Ritchie, with Many Letters of William Makepeace ThackerayHarper, 1924 - 340 páginas |
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A. C. Swinburne Anne ANNE THACKERAY RITCHIE Anny Thackeray asked beautiful bless Brighton Browning Carlyle Carmichael-Smyth Charles Charlotte Brontë cheerful comfortable coming daughter dear old dearest delicious delightful dined dinner Douglas Freshfield Emily Ritchie End House father feel friends G. F. Watts Gardens George George Eliot George Sand Gerald Ritchie girls give glad Grannie happy hear heart Hester hope Journal Kensington kind Lady last night laughed Leslie Leslie Stephen letter live look Madame Millais mind Minny Miss morning mother never nice o'clock one's Papa Paris picture pleasant poor remember Rhoda Broughton Richmond Ritchie Ritchie in India round says seems sister sitting Smith sort story Sunday sure talk tell Tennyson Thackeray's thank things thought to-day told trees W. M. Thackeray walk William Makepeace Thackeray wish wonder write wrote yesterday
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Página 283 - And while it shall please Thee to continue me in this world, where much is to be done, and little to be known...
Página 283 - O Lord, my maker and protector, who hast graciously sent me into this world to work out my salvation, enable me to drive from me all such unquiet and perplexing thoughts as may mislead or hinder me in the practice of those duties which thou hast required. When I behold the works of thy hands, and consider the course of thy providence, give me grace always to remember that thy thoughts are not my thoughts, nor thy ways my ways. And while it shall please thee to continue me in this world, where much...
Página 317 - So that men shall speak of the might of Thy marvellous acts : and I will also tell of Thy greatness.
Página 61 - All children ought to love him. I know two that do, and read his books ten times for once that they peruse the dismal preachments of their father. I know one who, when she is happy, reads Nicholas Nickleby...
Página 51 - What could Dickens mean by writing that book of American Notes? No man should write about the country under 5 years of experience, and as many of previous reading. A visit to the Tombs, to Laura Bridgman and the Blind Asylum, a description of Broadway — O Lord is that describing America? It's a mole or a pimple on the great Republican body, or a hair of his awful beard and no more.
Página 20 - Laura must be a very good-natured girl. I hope my dear Nanny is so too, not merely to her schoolmistress and friends, but to everybody — to her servants and her nurses. I would sooner have you gentle and humble-minded than ever so clever.
Página 15 - I sell 5000, 10,000 copies? — they will pay me 40 or 80 a week: 80 a week is 4000 a year of which I would put by 3 at the very least per an : see Alnaschar in the Arabian Nights. And so God bless my dearest Mammy: and all at number 4: how bright it must look now. My dear old Paris ! WMT...
Página 26 - But it is best that they should be away from you: — at least that they should be away either from you or me. There can't be two first principles in a house. We should secretly be jealous of one another: or I should resign the parental place altogether to you, and be a bachelor still. Whereas now, God Almighty grant I may be a father to my children. Continued thoughts of them chase I don't know how many wickednesses out of my mind: their society makes many of my old amusements seem trivial and shameful.
Página 138 - Cameron's three maids in little knitted waistcoats, carrying a huge box of photographs. There we all sat round a table and looked at the pictures, while the young men each had a tumbler of brandy and water. " Everybody is either a genius, or a poet, or a painter or peculiar in some way ; poor Miss Stephens says
Página 56 - But 6000£ is a great bribe, isn't it? Suppose I do wear myself out, and that posterity says so, why shouldn't she? and what care I to appear to future ages (who will be deeply interested in discussing the subject) as other than I really am?