...Germany; or whether she was obliged to fight out the quarrel of William of Orange, who made us pay and fight for his Dutch provinces; or whether poor ... ...uman nature, that the sun of that autumn evening shone upon any two men in county or city, at desk or harvest, at Court or at Newgate, drunk or sober,... ...the rustic bystanders were quite convinced of the good intentions of their new friend, and accompanied him back to the “Bugle,” to re- gale upon the p... ...ght use, if he liked, the Galgenstein arms with a bar-sinister; and in her new cares and duties had not so many opportunities as usual of quarrelling ... ...ant sight to behold our thieves’ ambassador, in a faded sky-blue suit with orange facings, in a pair of huge jack-boots unconscious of blacking, with ... ...ared last night, in the hearing of several witnesses, that he was going to York; says he is a man of independent property, and has large estates in Ir... ...in Warwickshire, Mr. Thomas Billings was inhabiting the same 91 Thackeray county, not cared for by either of them; but ordained by Fate to join them ... ...he fortunes of both. For, as it has often happened to the traveller in the York or the Exeter coach to fall snugly asleep in his corner, and on awakin... ...ve all of us, no doubt, employed in our time. How often have we,—we poets, politicians, phi- losophers, family-men,—found charming excuses for our own...

...M. These studies are collected from the monthly press. One appeared in the New Quarterly, one in MacMillan’s, and the rest in the Cornhill Magazine. T... ...en presented. It is only possible to write another study, and then, with a new “point of view,” would follow new perversions and per- haps a fresh car... ...unting rapidly; from the cynosure of a parish, he had become the talk of a county; once the bard of rural courtships, he was now about to appear as a ... ...re actually to withdraw from this copartner- ship, and be locked up in the county gaol therefor, it would be the abolition of slavery in America. For ... ...over of Queen Isabel, and the leading patron of art and one of the leading politicians in France. And the poet might have inherited yet higher vir- tu... ...gnificent copy of Charles’s poems, given by our Henry VII. to Elizabeth of York on the occasion of their marriage, a large illumination figures at the... ...d him, T riboulet, the dwarf jester, whose skull-cap was no bigger than an orange.* Sometimes the journeys were set about on horseback in a large part... ...he company of a Mrs. Elizabeth Bowes, wife of Rich- ard Bowes, of Aske, in Yorkshire, to whom she had borne twelve children. She was a religious hypoc...

...Excerpt: Preface By Way Of Criticism. These studies are collected from the monthly press. One appeared in the New Quarterly, one in MacMillan?s, and the rest in the Cornhill Magazine. To the Cornhill I owe a double debt of thanks; first, that I was received there in the very best society, and under the eye of the very best of editors...