Book/Printed Material Sketches and travels in London,
-
Image 1 of Sketches and travels in London,- Contributor: Thackeray, William Makepeace
- Date: 1883
-
Image 2 of Sketches and travels in London, Class Bod COPYRIGHT DEPOSIT- Contributor: Thackeray, William Makepeace
- Date: 1883
-
Image 3 of Sketches and travels in London,- Contributor: Thackeray, William Makepeace
- Date: 1883
-
-
Image 5 of Sketches and travels in London, \CT las TuSUC^TIOl^ OP_T^_BE I #i 7 isas. A nu»i Subucriptiou, AND TRAVELS IN LONDON W. M. THACKERAY at tb« P»»t Offlci. J*. T. CaFfn*ht, UM. by J«*k Lor KA. C* W...- Contributor: Thackeray, William Makepeace
- Date: 1883
-
Image 6 of Sketches and travels in London, LOVELL’S library;-catalogue. 1. Hyperion, by S. W, Longfellow.. 20 Outre-MeG.by H. W. Longfellow. 20 3. Th« Happy Boy, by Bjorneon. 10 4. Arne, by BjOrnson 40 5. Frankenstein, by M rs. Shelley...- Contributor: Thackeray, William Makepeace
- Date: 1883
-
Image 7 of Sketches and travels in London, SKETCHES AND TRAVELS IN LONDON BY WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERY. NEW YORK: JOHN W. LOVELL COMPANY, 14 and 16 Vesey Street.- Contributor: Thackeray, William Makepeace
- Date: 1883
-
Image 8 of Sketches and travels in London, SKETCHES AND TRAVELS IN LONDON good show in your book-cases and I was glad to remark in the looking-glass the cards of both our excellent county Members. The rooms, altogether, have a...- Contributor: Thackeray, William Makepeace
- Date: 1883
-
Image 9 of Sketches and travels in London, SKETCHES AND TRAVELS IN LONDON 397 You have no more right, as I take it, to sport an imperial on your chin than I have to wear a shovel-hat with a rosette....- Contributor: Thackeray, William Makepeace
- Date: 1883
-
Image 10 of Sketches and travels in London, 398 SKETCHES AND TEA VELS IN LONDON Nature, and certainly adds to the zest of life. Therefore, I do not say that Lord Hugo is a useless being, or bestow the least...- Contributor: Thackeray, William Makepeace
- Date: 1883
-
Image 11 of Sketches and travels in London, SKETCHES AND TRA VELS IN LONDON. 399 diamond, then a new waistcoat, to correspond with the stock, then a new coat, because the old one is too shabby for the rest of...- Contributor: Thackeray, William Makepeace
- Date: 1883
-
Image 12 of Sketches and travels in London, 400 SKETCHES AND TEA VELS IN LONDON trim, and elegant, and in whose person we fancy we see exhib- ited indications of a natural taste, order, and propriety. If Miss Smith in...- Contributor: Thackeray, William Makepeace
- Date: 1883
-
Image 13 of Sketches and travels in London, SKETCHES AND TRA VELS IN LONDON 401 suit handsome, neat, well-made, fitting you naturally and easily, and yet with a certain air of holiday about it, which should mark its destination. It...- Contributor: Thackeray, William Makepeace
- Date: 1883
-
Image 14 of Sketches and travels in London, 402 SKETCHES A HD TEA EELS IN LONDON. As for particularizing your dress, that were a task quite absurd and impertinent, considering that you are to wear it, and not I, and...- Contributor: Thackeray, William Makepeace
- Date: 1883
-
Image 15 of Sketches and travels in London, SKETCHES AND TRA VELS IN LONDON. 4 03 which Mr. Macaulay treats so eloquently in his lately published History, as in his lecture to the Glasgow Students the other day, there is...- Contributor: Thackeray, William Makepeace
- Date: 1883
-
Image 16 of Sketches and travels in London, 404 SKETCHES AND TRAVELS IN LONDON. tastes and revolt against what is pure. Your Club swaggerers who are sucking the butts of billiard-cues all night call female society insipid. Sir, poetry is...- Contributor: Thackeray, William Makepeace
- Date: 1883
-
Image 17 of Sketches and travels in London, SKETCHES AND TEA VELS IN LONDON 405 Many young men, who are more remarkable for their impu- dence and selfishness than their good sense, are fond of boast- fully announcing that they...- Contributor: Thackeray, William Makepeace
- Date: 1883
-
Image 18 of Sketches and travels in London, 406 SKETCHES AND TEA VELS IN LONDON with constant hospitality here since Mr. Y. Z. brought him home from the Club Has he such beaux yeux or, has he so much wit...- Contributor: Thackeray, William Makepeace
- Date: 1883
-
Image 19 of Sketches and travels in London, SKETCHES AND TEA VELS IN LONDON 407 pricle of her beauty, than which I know no more charming o! ject there is poor Miss Meggot, lonely up against the wall, whom nobody...- Contributor: Thackeray, William Makepeace
- Date: 1883
-
Image 20 of Sketches and travels in London, *o8 SKETCHES AND TEA VELS IN LONDON so as to be worthy of them. Would you do anything to give them pain Would you say anything that should bring a blush to...- Contributor: Thackeray, William Makepeace
- Date: 1883
-
Image 21 of Sketches and travels in London, SKETCHES AND TEA VELS IN LONDON. 40c) city. To chuck a still-room maid under the chin, or to send off Molly the cook grinning, are not, to say the least of them,...- Contributor: Thackeray, William Makepeace
- Date: 1883
-
Image 22 of Sketches and travels in London, 4io SKETCHES AND TRAVELS IN LONDON he finds that circle in palaces in Belgravia and May Fair, in snug little suburban villas, in ancient comfortable old Blooms- bury, or in back parlors...- Contributor: Thackeray, William Makepeace
- Date: 1883
-
Image 23 of Sketches and travels in London, SKETCHES AND TEA VELS IN LONDON. through those rooms where you have the honor of making best bow. She is as simple now as if she had never had any flattery to...- Contributor: Thackeray, William Makepeace
- Date: 1883
-
Image 24 of Sketches and travels in London, SKETCHES AND TEA VELS IN LONDON ON FRIENDSHIP. Choice of friends, my dear Robert, is a point upon which y man about town should be instructed, as he should be capful. And...- Contributor: Thackeray, William Makepeace
- Date: 1883
-
Image 25 of Sketches and travels in London, SKETCHES AND TEA VELS IN LONDON 413 tables of Bachelors of the very first fashion, you would meet with prize-fighters and jockeys, and hear a great deal about the prize-ring, the cock-pit,...- Contributor: Thackeray, William Makepeace
- Date: 1883
-
Image 26 of Sketches and travels in London, 414 SKETCHES AND TEA VELS IN LONDON grudge it, Bob I do not grudge it. Your family is large and I have enough from my poor dear departed wife. Now it so...- Contributor: Thackeray, William Makepeace
- Date: 1883
-
Image 27 of Sketches and travels in London, SKETCHES AND TEA VELS IN LONDON 4IS verse from a Bacchanalian song which I well remember Mr. Bludyer used to yell forth when I myself arrived from my office at my usual...- Contributor: Thackeray, William Makepeace
- Date: 1883
-
Image 28 of Sketches and travels in London, SKETCHES AND TRA VELS IN LONDON 416 and with whom I certainly would have exchanged shots, had I thought that Mrs. MacWhirter would have encouraged any such murder. My wishes, dear Bob,...- Contributor: Thackeray, William Makepeace
- Date: 1883
-
Image 29 of Sketches and travels in London, SKETCHES AND TEA EELS IN LONDON 417 philosopher, who inspects them as he would any other phe- nomenon, or queer bird, or odd fish, or fine flower. These fel- lows are like...- Contributor: Thackeray, William Makepeace
- Date: 1883
-
Image 30 of Sketches and travels in London, 4 iS SKETCHES AND TEA VELS IN LONDON roomful of men by telling us that he had been dining with a Duke. We hadn’t been to dine with a Duke. We were...- Contributor: Thackeray, William Makepeace
- Date: 1883
-
Image 31 of Sketches and travels in London, SKETCHES AND TEA VELS IN LONDON 419 the backs of jolly bills. Gentlemen in Cursitor Street are on the look-out for them. Their tradesmen ask for them, and find them not. Ah...- Contributor: Thackeray, William Makepeace
- Date: 1883
-
Image 32 of Sketches and travels in London, 420 SKETCHES AND TEA VELS IN LONDON. inform you that you are this day elected a Member of the Polyanthus,” having been proposed by my friend, Lord Vis- count Colchicum, and seconded...- Contributor: Thackeray, William Makepeace
- Date: 1883
-
Image 33 of Sketches and travels in London, 421 SKETCHES AND TEA VELS IN LONDON Those three gentlemen sitting on the sofa are from our be- loved sister island they come here every day, and wait for the Honorable Member...- Contributor: Thackeray, William Makepeace
- Date: 1883
-
Image 34 of Sketches and travels in London, 422 SKETCHES AND TRA VELS IN LONDON let us pass on. Have you read David Copperfield,” by the way How beautiful it is how charmingly fresh and simple 1 In those admirable...- Contributor: Thackeray, William Makepeace
- Date: 1883
-
Image 35 of Sketches and travels in London, SKETCHES AND TRA VELS IN LONDON 423 be sure he s most likely a bachelor, so that the latter offices do not occupy him much), fancy such a life, and at its...- Contributor: Thackeray, William Makepeace
- Date: 1883
-
Image 36 of Sketches and travels in London, 424 SKETCHES AND ERA VELS IN LONDON. likely we will not say to play foul but to take certain little advantages in the game which their consummate experience teaches them you or...- Contributor: Thackeray, William Makepeace
- Date: 1883
-
Image 37 of Sketches and travels in London, SKETCHES AND TRA VELS IN LONDON 425 By a perseverance in this system, you may get a number of advantages. By sitting up till three of a summer morning, you have the...- Contributor: Thackeray, William Makepeace
- Date: 1883
-
Image 38 of Sketches and travels in London, 4 2 6 SKETCHES AND TEA VELS IN LONDON. easy manner— the cigar harmonizes the society, and soothes at once the speaker and the subject whereon he converses. I have no doubt...- Contributor: Thackeray, William Makepeace
- Date: 1883
-
Image 39 of Sketches and travels in London, SKETCHES AND TRAVELS IN LONDON 427 travel, politics and geography, are their discourse they are in bed long before their successors the jolly fellows begin their night life, and the talk of...- Contributor: Thackeray, William Makepeace
- Date: 1883
-
Image 40 of Sketches and travels in London, 428 SKETCHES AND TRA VELS IN LONDON eleven o’clock I finished him, and had him as drunk as a lord, sir Will you like to have that gentleman for a friend He...- Contributor: Thackeray, William Makepeace
- Date: 1883