 | 1883 - 498 pages
...written," but this must not be misunderstood. It should be read side by side with the words of Thackeray. " He reads twenty books to write a sentence ; he travels a hundred miles to make a line of description." Harriet Martineau sneers at Gibbon in the words, " selfish, vain, unhappy man ! He studied law a year... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1863 - 418 pages
...drawn? How does he manage, in two or three words, to paint an individual, or to indicate a landscape? Your neighbor, who has his reading, and his little...travels a hundred miles to make a line of description. Many Londoners—not all—have seen the British Museum Library. I speak d cceur ouvert, and pray the... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1863 - 316 pages
...drawn? How does he manage, in two or three words, to paint an individual, or to indicate a landscape? Your neighbor, who has his reading, and his little...travels a hundred miles to make a line of description. Many Londoners—not all—have seen the British Museum Library. I speak d coeur ouvert, and pray the... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1829 - 754 pages
...manage, in two or three words, to paint an individual, or to indicate a landscape ? Your neighbour, who has his reading, and his little stock of literature...travels a hundred miles to make a line of description. Many Londoners — not all — have seen the British Museum Library. I speak a caeur ouvert, and pray... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1867 - 544 pages
...drawn ? How does he manage, in two or three words, to paint an individual, or to indicate a landscape ? He reads twenty books to write a sentence; he travels a hundred miles to make a line of description! 14. One paper I have read regarding Lord Macaulay says "he had no heart." Why, a man's books may not... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1869 - 444 pages
...manage, in two or three words, to paint an individual, or to indicate a landscape ? Your neighbour, who has his reading, and his little stock of literature...travels a hundred miles to make a line of description. Many Londoners—not all—have seen the British Museum Library. I speak d cxur onvert, and pray the... | |
 | S.E.H. CHAMBERS - 1869 - 452 pages
...manage, in two or three words, to paint an individual, or to indicate a landscape ? Your neighbour, who has his reading, and his little stock of literature...travels a hundred miles to make a line of description. Many Londoners—not all—Ixive seen the British Museum Library. I speak d cceur onrert, and pray... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1869 - 450 pages
...manage, in two or three words, to paint an individual, or to indicate a landscape ? Your neighbour, who has his reading, and his little stock of literature...travels a hundred miles to make a line of description. Many Londoners — not all — have seen the British Museum Library. I speak a cieur ouvert, and pray... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1870 - 538 pages
...drawn ? How doey he manage, in two or three words, to paint an individual, or to indicate a landscape ? He reads twenty books to write a sentence ; he travels a hundred miles to make a line of description! 14. One paper I have read regarding Lord Macaulay says "he had no heart." Why, a man's books may not... | |
 | 1876 - 616 pages
...statistics from all quarters, for his work. In truth Thackeray was guilty of no exaggeration when he said, " He reads twenty books to write a sentence ; he travels...hundred miles to make a line of description." This inexhaustible capacity of painstaking was one great secret of his success. And what a success! The... | |
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Your neighbor, who has his reading, and his little stock of literature stowed away in his mind, shall detect more points, allusions, happy touches, indicating not only the prodigious memory and vast learning of this master, but the wonderful industry,... 
