In a certain quiet and sequestered nook of the retired village of London-perhaps in the neighbourhood of Berkeley Square, or at any rate somewhere near Burlington Gardens-there was once a house of entertainment called the "Bootjack Hotel." Mr. Crump, the landlord, had, in the outset of life, performed the duties of Boots in some inn even more frequented than his own, and, far from being ashamed of his origin, as many persons are in the days of their prosperity, had thus solemnly recorded it over the hospitable gate of his hotel.
In a certain quiet and sequestered nook of the retired village of London-perhaps in the neighbourhood of Berkeley Square, or at any rate somewhere nea...
In the Morning of Life the Truthful wooed the Beautiful, and their offspring was Love. Like his Divine parents, He is eternal. He has his Mother's ravishing smile; his Father's steadfast eyes. He rises every day, fresh and glorious as the untired Sun-God. He is Eros, the ever young. Dark, dark were this world of ours had either Divinity left it-dark without the day-beams of the Latonian Charioteer, darker yet without the daedal Smile of the God of the Other Bow Dost know him, reader?
In the Morning of Life the Truthful wooed the Beautiful, and their offspring was Love. Like his Divine parents, He is eternal. He has his Mother's rav...
(The necessity of a work on Snobs, demonstrated from History, and proved by felicitous illustrations: -I am the individual destined to write that work-My vocation is announced in terms of great eloquence-I show that the world has been gradually preparing itself for the WORK and the MAN-Snobs are to be studied like other objects of Natural Science, and are a part of the Beautiful (with a large B). They pervade all classes-Affecting instance of Colonel Snobley.
(The necessity of a work on Snobs, demonstrated from History, and proved by felicitous illustrations: -I am the individual destined to write that work...
In some collection of old English Ballads there is an ancient ditty which I am told bears some remote and distant resemblance to the following Epic Poem. I beg to quote the emphatic language of my estimable friend (if he will allow me to call him so), the Black Bear in Piccadilly, and to assure all to whom these presents may come, that "_I_ am the original." This affecting legend is given in the following pages precisely as I have frequently heard it sung on Saturday nights, outside a house of general refreshment (familiarly termed a wine vaults) at Battle-bridge.
In some collection of old English Ballads there is an ancient ditty which I am told bears some remote and distant resemblance to the following Epic Po...
Redmond Barry fuit son Irlande natale apres un duel, convaincu a tort qu'il a tue son adversaire. Il s'engage dans l'armee anglaise pour la Guerre de Sept Ans (1756-1763), puis est capture par les troupes prussiennes qui le chargent d'espionner le Chevalier de Bali-Bari (alias Ballybarry, Bally-Barry ou Balibari). Lorsque Bali-Bari s'avere n'etre autre que son oncle Cornelius Barry, les deux comperes s'installent en tant que tricheurs aux cartes professionnels. Barry connait le succes au jeu et devient l'homme a la mode. Apres un long siege, parodie d'une parade nuptiale, il epouse une riche...
Redmond Barry fuit son Irlande natale apres un duel, convaincu a tort qu'il a tue son adversaire. Il s'engage dans l'armee anglaise pour la Guerre de ...
La Foire aux vanites (Vanity Fair: A Novel Without a Hero) est un roman de William Makepeace Thackeray paru pour la premiere fois sous forme de feuilleton dans le magazine mensuel Punch entre 1846 et 1847 (vingt numeros). Son auteur y depeint la societe anglaise de la premiere moitie du xixe siecle et la critique de facon mordante. Le livre se voulait aussi divertissant qu'instructif. On peut ainsi y lire les commentaires de l'auteur fortement impregnes de morale victorienne. Le titre du livre s'inspire d'un conte allegorique de John Bunyan intitule Le Voyage du pelerin (The Pilgrim's...
La Foire aux vanites (Vanity Fair: A Novel Without a Hero) est un roman de William Makepeace Thackeray paru pour la premiere fois sous forme de feuill...
La Foire aux vanites (Vanity Fair: A Novel Without a Hero) est un roman de William Makepeace Thackeray paru pour la premiere fois sous forme de feuilleton dans le magazine mensuel Punch entre 1846 et 1847 (vingt numeros). Son auteur y depeint la societe anglaise de la premiere moitie du xixe siecle et la critique de facon mordante. Le livre se voulait aussi divertissant qu'instructif. On peut ainsi y lire les commentaires de l'auteur fortement impregnes de morale victorienne. Le titre du livre s'inspire d'un conte allegorique de John Bunyan intitule Le Voyage du pelerin (The Pilgrim's...
La Foire aux vanites (Vanity Fair: A Novel Without a Hero) est un roman de William Makepeace Thackeray paru pour la premiere fois sous forme de feuill...
