 Novels are sweets. All people with healthy literary appetites love them — almost all women ; — a vast number of clever, hard-headed men. Why, one of the most learned physicians in England said to me only yesterday, ' I have just read So-and-So for...  Book Chat - Seite 8herausgegeben von - 1888Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | 1860 - 874 Seiten
...And a plate full of raspberries and cream disappeared before the philosopher. "You take the allegory? Novels are sweets. All people with healthy literary...women — a vast number of clever, hardheaded men. Why, one of the most learned physicians in England said to rae, only yesterday, ' I have just read... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1863 - 418 Seiten
...yesterday, " I have just read So-and-So for the second time" (naming one of Jones's exquisite fictions). Judges, bishops, chancellors, mathematicians, are notorious novel readers, as well as young boys and sweet girls, and their kind, tender mothers. Who has not read about Eldon, and how he cried over novels... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1863 - 316 Seiten
...yesterday, "I have just read So-and-So for the second time" (naming one of Jones's exquisite fictions). Judges, bishops, chancellors, mathematicians, are notorious novel readers, as well as young boys and sweet girls, and their kind, tender mothers. Who has not read about Eldon, and how he cried over novels... | |
 | John Cordy Jeaffreson - 1864 - 280 Seiten
...3 3433 07486740 3 I Л; Novels are sweets. All people with healthy literary...notorious novel readers, as well as young boys and sweet girls, and their kind, tender mothers. — THACKERAY, Roundabout Papers. HARPER'S LIBRARY OF... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1829 - 754 Seiten
...And a plateful of raspberries and cream disappeared before the philosopher. You take the allegory ? Novels are sweets. All people with healthy literary...women ; — a vast number of clever, hard-headed men. Why, one of the most learned physicians in England said to me only yesterday, ' I have just read So-and-So... | |
 | 1864 - 588 Seiten
...children, all women, all Eastern people whose tastes are not corrupted by gluttony and strong drink. 'Novels are sweets. All people with healthy literary appetites love them ; almost all women, and a vast number of clever hard-headed men.' Thackeray said this not as a philosopher, but in the... | |
 | Solomon Smith - 1868 - 292 Seiten
...HARPER & BROTHERS' NEW NOVELS. " Novels are sweets. AH people •with, healthy literary appetites lave them — almost all women ; a vast number of clever,...bishops, chancellors, mathematicians, are notorious novel-readers, as well as young boys and sweet girls, and their kind, tender mothers." — WILLIAM... | |
 | Shirley Brooks - 1868 - 188 Seiten
...NOYELS. " Navels are sweets. AU people with healthy literary appetites love them — almost all "oomen ; a vast number of clever, hard-headed men. Judges,...bishops, chancellors, mathematicians, are notorious novel-readers, as well as young boys and sweet girls, and their kind, tender mothers." — WILLIAM... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1869 - 450 Seiten
...And a plateful of raspberries and cream disappeared before the philosopher. You take the allegory ? Novels are sweets. All people with healthy literary...women ; — a vast number of clever, hard-headed men. Why, one of the most learned physicians in England said to me only yesterday, " I have just read So-and-So... | |
 | 1899 - 312 Seiten
...28. VOL. XXXII. NIAGARA UNIVERSITY, NY, FEBRUARY 1, 1900. No. 9. t<Novel Reading. Novels are sweet. All people with healthy literary appetites love them...notorious novel readers, as well as young boys and girls, and their kind, tender mothers. — Thackeray : Roundabout Papers. [GNORANCE of the art of reading,... | |
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