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" ... no manly dignity with it, but laugh their hearty great laugh out of their broad chests as nature bade them. But this man — who can make you laugh, who can make you cry, too — never lets his reader alone, or will permit his audience repose: when... "
The popular encyclopedia; or, 'Conversations Lexicon': [ed. by A. Whitelaw ... - Page 332
by Popular encyclopedia - 1885
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The English Humourists of the Eighteenth Century: A Series of Lectures

William Makepeace Thackeray - English literature - 1853 - 332 pages
...— never lets his reader alone, or will permit his audience repose : when you are quiet, he fancies he must rouse you, and turns over head and heels,...systematically and of cold blood ; paints his face, puts on his ruff and motley clothes, and lays down his carpet and tumbles on it. For instance, take...
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The English Humourists of the Eighteenth Century: A Series of Lectures ...

William Makepeace Thackeray - English literature - 1853 - 332 pages
...— never lets his reader alone, or will permit his audience repose: when you are quiet, he fancies he must rouse you, and turns over head and heels,...systematically and of cold blood; paints his face, puts on his ruff and motley clothes, and lays down his carpet and tumbles on it. For instance, take...
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Cyclopædia of Literary and Scientific Anecdote: Illustrations of the ...

William Keddie - Literature - 1854 - 400 pages
...— never lets his reader alone, or will permit his audience repose ; when you are quiet, he fancies he must rouse you, and turns over head and heels,...systematically and of cold blood ; paints his face, puts on his ruff and motley clothes, and lays down his carpet and tumbles on it." GOLDSMITH'S PLAYFULNESS....
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The English Humourists of the Eighteenth Century: A Series of Lectures

William Makepeace Thackeray - English literature - 1854 - 306 pages
...— never lets his reader alone, or will permit his audience repose : when you are quiet, he fancies he must rouse you, and turns over head and heels,...systematically and of cold blood ; paints his face, puts on his ruff and motley clothes, and lays down his carpet and tumbles on it. For instance, take...
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The Oxford Thackeray: With Illustrations, Issue 76, Volume 13

William Makepeace Thackeray - 1909 - 882 pages
...— -never lets his reader alone, or will permit his audience repose : when you are quiet, he fancies he must rouse you, and turns over head and heels,...systematically and of cold blood ; paints his face, puts on his ruff and motley clothes, and lays down his carpet and tumbles on it. For instance, take...
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The English Humorists of the Eighteenth Century: A Series of Lectures

William Makepeace Thackeray - English literature - 1867 - 334 pages
...— never lets his reader alone, or will permit his audience repose: when you are quiet, he fancies he must rouse you, and turns over head and heels,...systematically and of cold blood; paints his face, puts on his ruff and motley clothes, and lays down his carpet and tumbles on it. For instance, take...
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The Four Georges: The English Humourists of the Eighteenth Century

William Makepeace Thackeray - English literature - 1869 - 414 pages
...— never lets his reader alone, or will permit his audience repose : when you are quiet, he fancies he must rouse you, and turns over head and heels,...systematically and of cold blood ; paints his face, puts on his ruff and motley clothes, and lays down his carpet and tumbles on it. For instance, take...
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The works of William Makepeace Thackeray, Volume 19

William Makepeace Thackeray - 1869 - 410 pages
...— never lets his reader alone, or will permit his audience repose : when you are quiet, he fancies he must rouse you, and turns over head and heels,...systematically and of cold blood ; paints his face, puts on his ruff and motley clothes, and lays down his carpet and tumbles on it. For instance, take...
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The Works of William Makepeace Thackeray, Volume 19

William Makepeace Thackeray - England - 1869 - 410 pages
...— never lets his reader alone, or will permit his audience repose : when you are quiet, he fancies he must rouse you, and turns over head and heels,...systematically and of cold blood ; paints his face, puts orr his ruff and motley clothes, and lays down his carpet and tumbles on it. For instance, take...
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The Four Georges: The English Humorists of the Eighteenth Century

William Makepeace Thackeray - England - 1869 - 414 pages
...— never lets his reader alone, or will permit his audience repose : when you are quiet, he fancies he must rouse you, and turns over head and heels,...systematically and of cold blood ; paints his face, puts on his ruff and motley clothes, and lays down his carpet and tumbles on it. For instance, take...
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