 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...  Works of Charles Dickensper Charles Dickens - 1874Visualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | 1860 - 874 pàgines
...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 pàgines
...yesterday, " I have just read So-and-So for the second time" (naming one of Jones's exquisite fictions). Judges, bishops, chancellors, mathematicians, are...boys and sweet girls, and their kind, tender mothers. Who has not read about Eldon, and how he cried over novels every night when he was not at whist ? As... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1863 - 316 pàgines
...yesterday, "I have just read So-and-So for the second time" (naming one of Jones's exquisite fictions). Judges, bishops, chancellors, mathematicians, are...boys and sweet girls, and their kind, tender mothers. Who has not read about Eldon, and how he cried over novels every night when he was not at whist ? As... | |
 | John Cordy Jeaffreson - 1864 - 280 pàgines
...3 3433 07486740 3 I Л; Novels are sweets. All people with healthy literary...boys and sweet girls, and their kind, tender mothers. — THACKERAY, Roundabout Papers. HARPER'S LIBRARY OF SELECT NOVELS. & BEOTHEBS mil send either of... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1829 - 754 pàgines
...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 pàgines
...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 pàgines
...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 pàgines
...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 pàgines
...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... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1869 - 444 pàgines
...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 every night when he was not at whist ? As... | |
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