Author: William Makepeace ThackerayPublisher: CreateSpace
ISBN: 9781502796325
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 262
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The Paris Sketch Book of Mr. M. A. Titmarsh
The Paris Sketch Book of Mr. M. A. Titmarsh
Author: William Makepeace ThackerayPublisher: CreateSpace
ISBN: 9781502796325
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 262
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The Paris Sketch Book of Mr. M. A. Titmarsh
The Paris Sketch Book of Mr. M. A. Titmarsh
Author: ThackerayThe Paris Sketch Book of Mr. M. A. Titmarsh
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Category : Europe, Southern
Languages : en
Pages : 536
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The Paris Sketch Book of Mr. M. A. Titmarsh, and Little Travels and Road-side Sketches
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The Paris Sketch Book of Mr. M.A. Titmarsh and Little Travels and Roadside Sketches
Author: William Makepeace ThackerayPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 370
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The Paris Sketch Book of Mr. M.A. Titmarsh
Author: William Makepeace ThackerayPublisher:
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 498
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The Paris sketch book
Author: William Makepeace ThackerayPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 490
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The Paris Sketch Book of Mr. M. A. Titmarsh
Author: William Makepeace ThackerayPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3368322036
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 442
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The Paris Sketch Book of Mr. M. A. Titmarsh (Annotated)
Author: William Makepeace ThackerayPublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781539027683
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Languages : en
Pages : 232
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About twelve o'clock, just as the bell of the packet is tolling a farewell to London Bridge, and warning off the blackguard-boys with the newspapers, who have been shoving Times, Herald, Penny Paul-Pry, Penny Satirist, Flare-up, and other abominations, into your face-just as the bell has tolled, and the Jews, strangers, people-taking-leave-of their families, and blackguard-boys aforesaid, are making a rush for the narrow plank which conducts from the paddle-box of the "Emerald" steamboat unto the quay-you perceive, staggering down Thames Street, those two hackney-coaches, for the arrival of which you have been praying, trembling, hoping, despairing, swearing-sw-, I beg your pardon, I believe the word is not used in polite company-and transpiring, for the last half-hour. Yes, at last, the two coaches draw near, and from thence an awful number of trunks, children, carpet-bags, nursery-maids, hat-boxes, band-boxes, bonnet-boxes, desks, cloaks, and an affectionate wife, are discharged on the quay. "Elizabeth, take care of Miss Jane," screams that worthy woman, who has been for a fortnight employed in getting this tremendous body of troops and baggage into marching order. "Hicks! Hicks! for heaven's sake mind the babies!"-"George-Edward, sir, if you go near that porter with the trunk, he will tumble down and kill you, you naughty boy!-My love, DO take the cloaks and umbrellas, and give a hand to Fanny and Lucy; and I wish you would speak to the hackney-coachmen, dear, they want fifteen shillings, and count the packages, love-twenty-seven packages, -and bring little Flo; where's little Flo?-Flo! Flo!"-(Flo comes sneaking in; she has been speaking a few parting words to a one-eyed terrier, that sneaks off similarly, landward.) As when the hawk menaces the hen-roost, in like manner, when such a danger as a voyage menaces a mother, she becomes suddenly endowed with a ferocious presence of mind, and bristling up and screaming in the front of her brood, and in the face of circumstances, succeeds, by her courage, in putting her enemy to flight; in like manner you will always, I think, find your wife (if that lady be good for twopence) shrill, eager, and ill-humored, before, and during a great family move of this nature. Well, the swindling hackney-coachmen are paid, the mother leading on her regiment of little ones, and supported by her auxiliary nurse-maids, are safe in the cabin;-you have counted twenty-six of the twenty-seven parcels, and have them on board, and that horrid man on the paddle-box, who, for twenty minutes past, has been roaring out, NOW, SIR!-says, NOW, SIR, no more. I never yet knew how a steamer began to move, being always too busy among the trunks and children, for the first half-hour, to mark any of the movements of the vessel. When these private arrangements are made, you find yourself opposite Greenwich (farewell, sweet, sweet whitebait!), and quiet begins to enter your soul. Your wife smiles for the first time these ten days; you pass by plantations of ship-masts, and forests of steam-chimneys; the sailors are singing on board the ships, the bargees salute you with oaths, grins, and phrases facetious and familiar; the man on the paddle-box roars, "Ease her, stop her!" which mysterious words a shrill voice from below repeats, and pipes out, "Ease her, stop her!" in echo; the deck is crowded with groups of figures, and the sun shines over all.
The Paris sketch book of Mr. M.A. Titmarsh; and Eastern sketches
Author: William Makepeace ThackerayPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 526
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