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Austin Dobson:Fielding Volume 9, Pt. 1
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1905 edition. Excerpt: ...exclaimed the ecclesiastic, casting his eyes towards the chandelier and passing a white cambric pocket-handkerchief gracefully before them. No man in London understood the ring business or the pocket-handkerchief business better, or smothered his emotion more beautifully. ''In the gayest moments, in the giddiest throng of fashion, the thoughts of the past will rise; the departed will be among us still. But this is not the strain wherewith to greet the friend newly arrived on our shores. How it rejoices me to behold you in old England.'' And so the satirist goes on with Mr. Honeyman the clergyman. Mr. Honeyman the clergyman has been already mentioned, in that extract made in our first chapter from Lovel the Widmcer. It was he who assisted another friend, with his wheedling tongue, in inducing Thackeray to purchase that neat little literary paper,--called then The Museum, but which was in truth The National Standard. In describing Barnes Newcome, the colonel''s relative, Thackeray in the same scene attacks the sharpness of the young men of business of the present day. There were, or were to be, some transactions with Ruinmun Loll, and Barnes Newcome, being in doubt, asks the colonel a question or two as to the certainty of the Rummun''s money, much to the colonel''s disgust. The young man of business had dropped his drawl or his languor, and was speaking quite unaffectedly, goodnaturedly, and selfishly. Had you talked to him for a week you would not have made him understand the scorn and loathing with which the colonel regarded him. Here was a young fellow as keen as the oldest curmudgeon,--a lad with scarce a beard to his chin, that would pursue his bond as rigidly as Shylock Barnes Newcome never missed a church, he goes on, or... Austin Dobson, Books, Fiction and Literature, Fiction, Fielding Volume 9, Pt. 1 Books>Fiction and Literature>Fiction, General Books LLC<
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Austin Dobson:Fielding Volume 9, Pt. 1
- nouveau livre ISBN: 9780217474979
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not … Plus…
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1905 edition. Excerpt: ...exclaimed the ecclesiastic, casting his eyes towards the chandelier and passing a white cambric pocket-handkerchief gracefully before them. No man in London understood the ring business or the pocket-handkerchief business better, or smothered his emotion more beautifully. ''In the gayest moments, in the giddiest throng of fashion, the thoughts of the past will rise; the departed will be among us still. But this is not the strain wherewith to greet the friend newly arrived on our shores. How it rejoices me to behold you in old England.'' And so the satirist goes on with Mr. Honeyman the clergyman. Mr. Honeyman the clergyman has been already mentioned, in that extract made in our first chapter from Lovel the Widmcer. It was he who assisted another friend, with his wheedling tongue, in inducing Thackeray to purchase that neat little literary paper,--called then The Museum, but which was in truth The National Standard. In describing Barnes Newcome, the colonel''s relative, Thackeray in the same scene attacks the sharpness of the young men of business of the present day. There were, or were to be, some transactions with Ruinmun Loll, and Barnes Newcome, being in doubt, asks the colonel a question or two as to the certainty of the Rummun''s money, much to the colonel''s disgust. The young man of business had dropped his drawl or his languor, and was speaking quite unaffectedly, goodnaturedly, and selfishly. Had you talked to him for a week you would not have made him understand the scorn and loathing with which the colonel regarded him. Here was a young fellow as keen as the oldest curmudgeon,--a lad with scarce a beard to his chin, that would pursue his bond as rigidly as Shylock Barnes Newcome never missed a church, he goes on, or... Austin Dobson, Books, Fiction and Literature, Fiction, Fielding Volume 9, Pt. 1 Books>Fiction and Literature>Fiction <
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Austin Dobson:Fielding
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