Word: thackeray
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...Richardson; Feb. 15, Fielding; March 1, Fielding; March 8, Fielding; March 15, Smollett; March 22, Thackeray; April 5, Dickens; April 12, George Eliot...
...audience attended Mr. Copeland's reading from the works of Oliver Goldsmith yesterday afternoon. His first selection was from a "Group of Songs" and included "The Three Jolly Pigeons" and another song originally written for the part of Miss Hardcastle in "She Stoops to Conquer." Mr. Copeland also read Thackeray's Essay on Goldsmith from "The English Humorists," "Bean Tibs at Home," from "A Citizen of the World," "The Haunch of Venison," and passages from "The Deserted Village" and "Retaliation...
...Thackeray's immortal description of Colonel Newcome's death comes to me as I think of our friend Marshall Newell, "And lo, he whose heart was as that of a little child, had answered to his name and stood in the presence of his Master...
...income of the fund of $1100, set aside for the purchase of English classics for the Child Memorial Library, has recently been used in adding to the collection of books the complete works of Thackeray, Defoe, Southey, and Dickens. It is the intention of the management to make this library exclusively one of English Works...
Reading from the Prose and the Verse of Thackeray. Mr. Copeland. Sever...