 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1849 - 728 lapas
...talk about them : if they arc good and kindly, to love them and shake them by the hand : if they arc silly, to laugh at them confidentially in the reader's...heartless, to abuse them in the strongest terms which politeness admits of. Otherwise you might faney it was I who was sneering at the practice of devotion,... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1848 - 408 lapas
...: if they are good and kindly, to love them and shake them by the hand: if they are silly, to langh at them confidentially in the reader's sleeve : if...heartless, to abuse them in the strongest terms which politeness admits of. Otherwise you might fancy it was I who was sueering at the practice of devotion,... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1868 - 468 lapas
...and the lonely midnight. The present Chapter is very mild. Others But we will not anticipate those. And, as we bring our characters forward, I will ask...heartless, to abuse them in the strongest terms which politeness admits of. Otherwise you might fancy it was I who was sneering at the practice of devotion,... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1881 - 732 lapas
...the lonely midnight. The present chapter is very mild. Others — But we will not anticipate those. And as we bring our characters forward, I will ask...heartless, to abuse them in the strongest terms which politeness admits of. Otherwise you might fancy it was I who was sneering at the practice of devotion,... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1881 - 906 lapas
...But we will not anticipate those. And, as we bring our characters forward, I will ask leave, as a>man and a brother, not only to introduce them, but occasionally...heartless, to abuse them in the strongest terms which politeness admits of. Otherwise you might fancy it was I who was sneering at the practice of devotion,... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1884 - 742 lapas
...and the lonely midnight. The present Chapter is very mild. Others But we will not anticipate those. And, as we bring our characters forward, I will ask...heartless, to abuse them in the strongest terms which politeness admits of. Otherwise you might fancy it was I who was sneering at the practice of devotion,... | |
 | 1902 - 524 lapas
...characters in which Thackeray "asks leave as a man and a brother to step down from the platform and tell about them ; if they are good and kindly, to love...heartless, to abuse them in the strongest terms which politeness admits of." This intimate personal relation to the characters is a novelist's privilege... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1889 - 564 lapas
...the lonely midnight. The present chapter is very mild. Others — But we will not anticipate those. And as we bring our characters forward, I will ask...heartless, to abuse them in the strongest terms which politeness admits of. Otherwise you might fancy it was I who was sneering at the practice of devotion,... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1889 - 562 lapas
...the lonely midnight. The present chapter is very mild. Others — But we will not anticipate those. And as we bring our characters forward, I will ask...heartless, to abuse them in the strongest terms which politeness admits of. Otherwise you might fancy it was I who was sneering at the practice of devotion,... | |
 | Christopher Andreas Holmboe, Christian Holst - 1891 - 730 lapas
...brother, not only to introduce them, but occasionally to step down from the platform, and talk about them: if they are silly, to laugh at them confidentially in the reader's sleeve," VF 84; smlgn. to laugh in one's sleeve, at le i skjegget, hemmeligt. slip, VF 117. Bryn. „slynge,... | |
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And, as we bring our characters forward, I will ask leave, as a man and a brother, not only to introduce them, but occasionally to step down from the platform, and talk about them : if they are good and kindly, to love them and shake them by the hand... 
