Word: thackerays
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...London pocket editions of Dickens and Thackeray are also ready. Price 38 cents per vol.; 5 vols. or more at 35 cents...
...they "go home and tell their Pa!" Perhaps it might suit our young Ajax were the instructor to say to him, "Oh, please excuse me, Mr. So-and-So, for mentioning it, I really hope you won't mind, but your work is not quite up to Dickens or Thackeray or Macaulay. It's really of no consequence, though, and I do hope you won't be offended," etc., etc. It seems to me that the gentleman in question should learn to criticize fairly and squarely himself, before inditing such a malicious and maligning tirade against a conscientious and able...
...generally known that among Thackeray's poems is one on Dr. McCosh of Princeton. It was written when Dr. McCosh was a pastor in Scotland...
...Andrew P. Peabody writes the preface for this book. He says it is "rodolent of genius, wit and poetic inspiration." Professor Charles Eliot Norton said of the first volume published in 1876, "Consule Planco," as Thackeray would say, which means, when Mr. Quincy was president. "I don't think we wrote on the average such good verses as these." All who have seen the selections for the forthcoming volume, consider that it is as far superior to the first volume as the University of to-day has outgrown the University of twenty years ago. The dedication is "To the founders...
...generally known that among Thackeray's poems is one on Dr. McCosh, of Princeton. It was written when Dr. McCosh was a pastor in Scotland...