The Spiritual Drama in the Life of ThackerayHodder & Stoughton, 1913 - 192 頁 |
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第 88 頁 - Ah! Vanitas Vanitatum! which of us is happy in this world ? Which of us has his desire ? or having it, is satisfied ? — come, children, let us shut up the box and the puppets, for our play is played out.
第 145 頁 - To him that hath shall be given ; and from him that hath not shall be taken away even that which he hath.
第 151 頁 - Two years ago, walking with my children in some pleasant fields, near to Berne, in Switzerland, I strayed from them into a little wood; and, coming out of it presently, told them how the story had been revealed to me somehow, which for three-and-twenty months the reader has been pleased to follow.
第 172 頁 - I only know that he prayed that he might never write a word inconsistent with the love of God or the love of man: that he might never propagate his own prejudices or pander to those of others: that he might always speak the truth with his pen, and that he might never be actuated by a love of greed. I particularly remember that the prayer wound up with the words : ' For the sake of Jesus Christ our Lord.
第 27 頁 - received much laud. I could not help* finding out that I was very fond of this same praise. The men knew not the author, but praised the poem ; how eagerly I sucked it in ! ' All is vanity ! ' " " If I get a fifth class in the examination I shall be lucky.
第 29 頁 - With a five-and-twenty years' experience since those happy days of which I write, and an acquaintance with an immense variety of human kind, I think I have never seen a society more simple, charitable, courteous, gentlemanlike than that of the dear little Saxon city, where the good Schiller and the great Goethe lived and lie buried.
第 38 頁 - The artist is a genius, both with his pencil and his pen. His vocation is literary. He is full of humour and feeling. Hitherto he has not had occasion to think much on the subject of Corn Laws, and therefore wants the stuff to work upon. He would like to combine 1842 both writing and drawing when sufficiently primed, and .lEi. 38. then he would write and illustrate ballads, or tales, or anything.
第 43 頁 - My wife was just sickening at that moment ; I wrote it at Margate, where I had taken her, and used to walk out three miles to a little bowling-green, and write there in an arbour — coming home and wondering what was the melancholy oppressing the poor little woman.
第 170 頁 - Emmy skurrying off on the arm of George (now grown a dashing young gentleman), and the Colonel seizing up his little Janey, of whom he is fonder than of anything in the world — fonder even than of his " History of the Punjaub." " Fonder than he is of me,
第 152 頁 - I can't but see it is a repetition of past performances, and think that vein is pretty nigh worked out in me.