The Works of William Makepeace Thackeray, Vol. 7 of 13: With Biographical Introductions by His Daughter, Anne Ritchie; The History of Henry Esmond, Esq. And the Lectures (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Thackeray, William Makepeace

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ISBN 10: 133033874X ISBN 13: 9781330338742

Verlag: Forgotten Books, 2018

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Excerpt from The Works of William Makepeace Thackeray, Vol. 7 of 13: With Biographical Introductions by His Daughter, Anne Ritchie; The History of Henry Esmond, Esq. And the Lectures

Old Stoddart is my host at Oxford, he writes to his mother. (it may be remembered that in one of his scho'olboy letters he Speaks Of a friend of mine called Stoddart) It is curious, isn't it, to be arrived actually at the date when some money will be put by for the young ones? They will probably be worth £30 apiece to-night.

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Excerpt from The Works of William Makepeace Thackeray, Vol. 7 of 13: With Biographical Introductions by His Daughter, Anne Ritchie; The History of Henry Esmond, Esq. And the Lectures

My dear Smith," my father once wrote, "how would the lectures do with no end of illustrations? - T. O. - I was drawing these, and that made me write to you, - Yours,

"W. M. T."

Here are the sketches over the page in this book as they are in my father's letter - Captain Steele with his cane and periwig, Mr. Sterne in his bands and buckles, Dr. Johnson pacing the street with Boswell by his side.

As one reads the Lectures on the Humourists, one feels how much my father was at ease with all these people, whom he loved and admired. He trod in the actual footsteps of Johnson and Goldsmith, and Steele and Addison. He saw the things they had seen, heard the echoes to which they had listened, he walked up the very streets where they had walked. He was one of them, and happy in their good company. Sir Walter also wrote of these times, also admired and appreciated all these personalities, but he belonged to a different and more romantic world of chivalry and adventure. As for my father so he says in one of his letters - "the eighteenth century occupies him to the exclusion almost of the nineteenth" and he carried its traditions along with him.

The first lecture was given on the 21st of May 1851.

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This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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• Verlag: Forgotten Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2018
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 133033874X
• ISBN 13: 9781330338742
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 810
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