Glances Back Through Seventy Years: Autobiographical and Other Reminiscences, Volume 1K. Paul, Trench, Trübner & Company, Limited, 1893 |
Other editions - View all
Glances Back Through Seventy Years: Autobiographical and Other Reminiscences Henry Vizetelly No preview available - 2015 |
Glances Back Through Seventy Years: Autobiographical and Other Reminiscences Henry Vizetelly No preview available - 2022 |
Common terms and phrases
afterwards amusing appearance Apsley House arrived artist Bayley bill brother Bunn called Carlile chartist Chislehurst clever Comic copies couple course court crowd Cruikshank Dickens dinner Douglas Jerrold drawings Duke Duke of Wellington edition editor engaged engravings eventually famous fashion favour favourite Fleet-street fortune gave George George Cruikshank hand head Henry Mayhew Illustrated London Ingram Jerrold John knew Lady Leech letter literary Lord Magazine Mark Lemon Marriott Mayhew ment morning murder neighbouring never newspaper night obtained occasion once paper Paris passed penny Penny Magazine police political Poor Man's Guardian popular portrait pretended Prince printed prison proceeded published Punch queen recognised Reform remarked remember secured sent shilling sketches soon speedily story street subsequently suggested Thackeray Thackeray's Thomas Longman thought tion told Uncle Tom's Cabin Vanity Fair volume well-known Wikoff write young
Popular passages
Page 27 - Augustus at Rome was for building renowned And of marble he left what of brick he had found; But is not our Nash, too, a very great master, He finds us all brick and leaves us all plaster.
Page 102 - twas in a crowd — and I thought he would shun me ; He came — I could not breathe, for his eye was upon me ; He spoke — his words were cold, and his smile was unaltered ; I knew how much he felt, for his deep-toned voice falter'd.
Page 275 - They rush by thousands to see Tom Thumb. They push, they fight, they scream, they faint, they cry help and murder ! and oh ! and ah ! They see my bills, my boards, my caravans, and don't read them. Their eyes are open, but their sense is shut. It is an insanity, a rabies, a madness, a furor, a dream. " I would not have believed it of the English people.
Page 108 - He has told a thousand truths in as many strange and fascinating ways ; he has given a thousand new and pleasant thoughts to millions of people ; he has never used his wit dishonestly ; he has never, in all the exuberance of his frolicsome humour, caused a single painful or guilty blush...
Page 284 - accepted so readily that I am deuced sorry I didn't ask them another tenner. I am certain they would have given it.' He then explained to me that he had named fifty guineas per part, including the two sheets of letterpress a couple of etchings and the initials at the commencement of the chapters. He reckoned the text, I remember, at no more than...
Page 128 - I dare say I gave myself airs as editor of that confounded Museum, and proposed to educate the public taste, to diffuse morality and sound literature throughout the nation, and to pocket a liberal salary in return for my services. I dare say I printed my own sonnets, my own tragedy, my own verses (to a Being who shall be nameless, but whose conduct has caused a faithful heart to bleed not a little).
Page 250 - ... dressing-gown of decided Parisian cut, rose from a small table standing close to the near window to receive me. When he stood up the low pitch of the room caused him to look even taller than he really was, and his actual height was well over six feet. The apartment was an exceedingly plainly furnished bedroom, with common rush-seated chairs, and painted French bedstead, and with neither lookingglass nor prints on the bare, cold, cheerless-looking walls. On the table from which Mr. Thackeray had...
Page 128 - I made a gaby of myself to the world : pray, my good friend, hast thou never done likewise ? If thou hast never been a fool, be sure thou wilt never be a wise man.
Page 90 - In those days of intense political excitement the working-classes hungered for political news, and this was the kind of intelligence the paper chiefly gave. It boldly announced in each number that it was " established contrary to law . . . and published despite the laws, or the will and pleasure of any tyrant or bodies of tyrants.
Page 274 - Whether you struck him or stroked him, starved him or fed him, he snapped at your hand in just the same way. He would beg you in piteous accents to buy an acre and a half of canvas that he had spoiled. Some good-natured Lord asks the price. Haydon demands a hundred guineas. His Lordship gives the money out of mere charity, and is rewarded by some such entry as this in Haydon's...