Nabob — your mistress for whom you now care no more than for Queen Elizabeth. Vows, love, promises, confidences, gratitude, how queerly they read after a while ! There ought to be a law in Vanity Fair ordering the destruction of every written document... VANITY FAIR - 208. lappuseautors: WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY - 1917Pilnskats - Par šo grāmatu
| Elizabeth Deeds Ermarth - 1997 - 260 lapas
...scratched with a diamond on a window pane. 'Perhaps in Vanity Fair there are no better satires than letters The best ink for Vanity Fair use would be one that...blank, so that you might write on it to somebody else' (ibid.: 182). The ephemeral nature of human life, and all its particular objects excepting perhaps... | |
| Elizabeth Deeds Ermarth - 1997 - 260 lapas
...Vanity Fair there are no better satires than letters The best ink for Vanity Fair use would be one mat faded utterly in a couple of days, and left the paper...blank, so that you might write on it to somebody else' (ibid.: 182). The ephemeral nature of human life, and all its particular objects excepting perhaps... | |
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...Vanity Fair ordering the destruction of every written document (except receipted tradesmen's bills1 after a certain brief and proper interval. Those quacks...blank, so that you might write on it to somebody else, (1921 The narrator's target here is not just personal letters, but "every written document" which must... | |
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...Queen Elizabeth. Vows, love, promises, confidences, gratitude, how queerly they read after a while ! The best ink for Vanity Fair use would" be one that...blank, so that you might write on it to somebody else.' But we must eat the fruit of these ways, my brothers : — ' The bustle, and triumph, and laughter,... | |
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