Vanity fair. With illustr. by the author |
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Popular passages
Page 432 - Moreover his mother made him a little coat, and brought it to him from year to year, when she came up with her husband to offer the yearly sacrifice.
Page 156 - O brother wearers of motley ! Are there not moments when one grows sick of grinning and tumbling, and the jingling of cap and bells ? This, dear friends and companions, is my amiable object — to walk with you through the Fair, to examine the shops and the shows there : and that we should all come home after the flare, and the noise, and the gayety, and be perfectly miserable in private. "If that poor man of mine had a head on his shoulders,
Page 6 - The world is a looking-glass, and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face. Frown at it. and it will in turn look sourly upon you ; laugh at it and with it, and it is a jolly kind companion...
Page 255 - this is the anniversary of Marengo and Friedland, by which the destinies of Europe were twice decided. Then, as after Austerlitz, as after Wagram, we were too generous. We believed in the oaths and promises of princes whom we suffered to remain upon their thrones. Let us march once more to meet them. We and they, are we not still the same men ? Soldiers!
Page 263 - Each man asked his neighbour for news; and even great English lords and ladies condescended to speak to persons whom they did not know. The friends of the French went abroad, wild with excitement, and prophesying the triumph of their Emperor. The merchants closed their shops, and came out to swell the general chorus of alarm and clamour.
Page iii - As the Manager of the Performance sits before the curtain on the boards, and looks into the Fair, a feeling of profound melancholy comes over him in his survey of the bustling place. There is a great quantity of eating and drinking, making love and jilting, laughing and the contrary, smoking, cheating, fighting, dancing, and fiddling...
Page 16 - Sharp some curry, my dear," said Mr. Sedley, laughing. Rebecca had never tasted the dish before. " Do you find it as good as everything else from India ? " said Mr. Sedley. " Oh, excellent ! " said Rebecca, who was suffering tortures with the cayenne pepper. "Try a chili with it, Miss Sharp,'' said Joseph, really interested.
Page 1 - As she is not a heroine, there is no need to describe her person ; indeed I am afraid that her nose was rather short than otherwise, and her cheeks a great deal too round and red for a heroine ; but her face blushed with rosy health, and her lips with the freshest of smiles, and she had a pair of eyes, which sparkled with the brightest and honestest...
Page xiii - BECKY'S SECOND APPEARANCE IN THE CHARACTER OP CLYTEMNESTHA . . 623 VIRTUE REWARDED ; A BOOTH m VANITY l-'.uii . .... 624 VANITY FAIR a Wobsl fottftout a 5?ero. CHAPTER I. CHISWICK MALL. IIILE the present century was in its teens, and on one sun-shiny morning in June, there drove up to the great iron gate of Miss Pinkerton's academy for young ladies, on Chiswick Mall, a large family coach...
Page 463 - DEAR BECKY (Rawdon wrote) — / hope you slept well. Don't be frightened if I don't bring you in your coffy. Last night as I was coming home smoaking, I met with an accadent. I was nabbed by Moss of Cursitor Street — from whose gilt and splendid parler I write this — the same that had me this time two years. Miss Moss brought in my tea — she is grown very fat, and, as usual, had her slackens down at heal.