...human kind, I think I have never seen a society more simple, charitable, courteous, gentleman • like, than that of the dear little Saxon city, where the...Schiller and the great Goethe lived and lie buried." II. Once, writing to my grandmother, my father said, " It is the fashion to say that people are unfortunate...

...there was something ennobling, I think, alike to the subject and sovereign. With a five-and-twenty years' experience since those happy days of which...Goethe lived and lie buried. Very sincerely yours, TIMBUCTOO. To the Editor of " The Snob." SIR,— Though your name be " Snob," I trust you will not...

...there was something ennobling, I think, alike to the subject and sovereign. With a five-and-twenty years' experience since those happy days of which...Goethe lived and lie buried. — Very sincerely yours, W. M, THACKERAY. A LEAF OUT OF A SKETCH-BOOK {F you will take a leaf out of my sketch-book, you are...

...there was something ennobling, I think, alike to the subject and sovereign. With a five-and-twenty years' experience since those happy days of which...Goethe lived and lie buried. — Very sincerely yours, A LEAF OUT OF A SKETCH-BOOK IF you will take a leaf out of my sketch-book, you are welcome. It is only...

...since those happy days of which I write, and an acquaintance with an immense variety of humankind, I think I have never seen a society more simple, charitable,...lie buried. " Very sincerely yours, "WM THACKERAY." It is interesting to think of the meeting of these two men. The one in his old age, the other in his...

...sympathies. He spent several months at Weimar, where he met Goethe. "I think," he wrote in after years, "I have never seen a society more simple, charitable,...Schiller and the great Goethe lived and lie buried." He preferred Schiller to Goethe, and "believed him to be, after Shakespeare, the Poet." He for a time...

...seen a society more simple, charitable, courteous, gentleman-like, than that of the dear little Saxoii city where the good Schiller and the great Goethe...and lie buried. Very sincerely yours, WM THACKERAY. TINBUCTOO. To the Editor of " The Snob." SIR, — Though your name be " Snob," I trust you will not...

...and in the latter year met Goethe the Great. Of the little town he said, a long time afterwards : " I think I have never seen a society more simple, charitable,...Schiller and the great Goethe lived and lie buried." His life in Paris and Weimar during the two years gave him some training as an artist, and an intimate...

...kind, I think I have never seta society more simple, charitable, courteous, gentleman-like, than tb of the dear little Saxon city where the good Schiller and the gre Goethe lived and lie buried. — Very sincerely yours, WM THACKERAY. A LEAF OUT OF A SKETCH-BOOK...

...read books, and were men of letters and gentlemen, holding a not unkindly relationship with the Add. At court the conversation was exceedingly friendly,...« WM THACKERAY." Thackeray's testimony is not only home out by all that I learn elsewhere, but is indeed applicable to Weimar in the present day, where...