Burlesques by William Makepeace Thackeray
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"Look! here is supper!" cried Barnwell gayly. "This is the Real, Doctor;
let us respect it and fall to." He partook of the meal as joyously as if it had been one of his early festals; but the worthy chaplain could scarcely eat it for tears. * This is a gross plagiarism: the above sentiment is expressed much more eloquently in the ingenious romance of Eugene Aram:--"The burning desires I have known--the resplendent visions I have nursed--the sublime aspirings that have lifted me so often from sense and clay: these tell me, that whether for good or ill, I am the thing of an immortality and the creature of a God. . . . I have destroyed a man noxious to the world! with the wealth by which he afflicted society, I have been the means of blessing many." CODLINGSBY. BY D. SHREWSBERRY, ESQ. I. "The whole world is bound by one chain. In every city in the globe there is one quarter that certain travellers know and recognize from its likeness to its brother district in all other places where are |
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