... she lay moaning, and in almost delirious agonies respecting that future world which she quite ignored when she was in good health. Picture to yourself, oh, fair young reader, a worldly, selfish, graceless, thankless, religionless old woman, writhing... The Works of William Makepeace Thackeray - 196. lappuseautors: William Makepeace Thackeray - 1903Pilnskats - Par šo grāmatu
| Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - 1859 - 672 lapas
...never forgive — that stringent warning, on the text of sick-bedridden, loveless old age : " Picture to yourself, oh fair young reader, a worldly, selfish,...to yourself, and ere you be old,- learn to love and pray."J It is vastly more pungent and painful to read than Pope's contemptuous lines — As Hags hold... | |
| University magazine - 1848 - 792 lapas
...agonies respecting that future world, which she quite ignored when she »as in good health. Picture to yourself, oh, fair young reader ! a worldly, selfish,...religionless old woman, writhing in pain and fear, ami without her wig — picture her to yourself, and ere you be old, learn to love and pray !" We remember... | |
| People's and Howitt's journal - 938 lapas
...delirious agonies respecting that future world which she quite ignored when she was in good health. Picture to yourself, oh fair young reader, a worldly, selfish,...graceless, thankless, religionless old woman, writhing with pain and fear, and without her wig. Picture her to yourself, and, ere yon be old, learn to love... | |
| William Makepeace Thackeray - 1849 - 728 lapas
...agonies respecting that future world which she quite ignored when she was in good health. — Picture to yourself, oh fair young reader, a worldly, selfish,...Nothing escaped her ; and, like a prudent steward, she fornd a use for everything. She told many a good story about Miss Crawley's iEness in after days, —... | |
| William Makepeace Thackeray - 1848 - 408 lapas
...delirious agonies respecting that future world which she quite iguored when she was in good health. Picture to yourself, oh, fair young reader, a worldly, selfish,...indomitable patience. Nothing escaped her ; and, like a prndent steward, she found a use for every thing. She told many a good story about Miss Crawley's illness... | |
| 1848 - 822 lapas
...of Miss Sharp upon the invalid, and her indomitable endurance of the tedium of the sick chamber :_ " Sharp watched this graceless bedside with indomitable...Nothing escaped her; and. like a prudent steward, ehe found a use for everything. During the illness she П'Лет wa< «\\\ r>f |t mp r, always alert.... | |
| William Makepeace Thackeray - 1849 - 412 lapas
...delirious agonies respecting that future world which she quite ignored when she was in good health. Picture to yourself, oh, fair young reader, a worldly, selfish,...; and, like a prudent steward, she found a use for every thing. She told many a good story about Miss Crawley's illness in after days — stories which... | |
| 1850 - 744 lapas
...in the finishing touch, as he did in the case of that odious Mies Crawley, by saying — " Picture to yourself, oh, fair young reader ! a worldly, selfish,...woman, writhing in pain and fear, and without her wig ! I Picture her to yourself, and, ere you be old, learn to love and pray!" We venture to say that none... | |
| 1851 - 604 lapas
...agonies respecting that future world which she quite ignored when shfe was in good health. Picture |f 5 ?哬> { b [ |$ @! 긾 n w P ' @} Z / x \ , with pain and fear, and without her wig. Picture her to yourself, and, ere you be old, learn to love... | |
| William Makepeace Thackeray - 1869 - 404 lapas
...she was in good health. Picture to yourself, oh, fair young reader, a worldly, selfish, grace less, thankless, religionless old woman, writhing in pain...love and pray ! Sharp watched this graceless bedside witfc indomitable patience. Nothing escaped her; and, like a prudent steward, she found a use for every... | |
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