Word: thackerays
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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HAVE you ever read essays of Elia, Rime of the Ancient Mariner, or Vanity Fair? Then I am sure of your interest in a few words about those two old schools, Christ Hospital and Gray Friars, from whose walls have gone out, not only Charles Lamb, Coleridge, and Thackeray, but many more of England's noblest writers and workers...
...very ordinary person, though wise beyond most men in the disposal of his fortune, - one Thomas Sutton, whose death, December 14, 1611, is yearly commemorated on Founder's Day by the whole school, as all will remember who have read the Newcomes, though in that beautiful description Thackeray has not given the quaint verse regularly sung on that occasion, which runs...
Gray Friars, however, is very small in comparison with Christ's, there being but fifty scholars on the foundation, yet the proportion of celebrated men is very large, - Addison, "loose Dick Steele," Thurlwall, Grote, Sir John Leech, and Thackeray standing high in the list of graduates. The last-named, Thackeray, was always very fond of his old school, and just before his death went on Founder's Day to scatter pennies among the boys...
...knew them by heart, and thoroughly understood and appreciated much that was in them! Would it not be better if we, in our day, could only bring ourselves to give up the one thousand and one others, and try to get some idea of the real spirit of Carlyle, Thackeray, Tennyson, or some great writer, till we felt ourselves equal to the study of the greatest, - Shakespeare...
...this view of the case is wrong, and Thackeray is really a cynic, then indeed he is a most inconsistent and tender-hearted one. No other writer is more quick to admire purity and innocence. No other writer has shown so great respect for and appreciation of true womanliness, or has so well described it. In almost every chapter he has written there are sentiments as far removed from cynicism as is the most earnest and modest charity. Whatever a man's faults may be, or however contemptible, in the common sense, he may appear, if he has a kindly...