...BURLESQUES by William Makepeace Thackeray A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Burlesques b... ...te Electronic Classics Series Publication Burlesques by William Makepeace Thackeray is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. This Por... ...h its private freight; the brisk curricle of the letter- carrier, robed in royal scarlet: these and a thousand others were laboring and pressing onwar... ...,—the throng of embroidered beaux entering or departing, and rendering the air fragrant with the odors of pulvillio and pomander, proclaim the celebra... ...who was in fact Mr. Alexander Pope. “What a marvel- lous gift is this, and royal privilege of Art! To make the Ideal more credible than the Actual: to... ...ard of the prison; but I dussay Hemmy will git you a little hoil for your ‘air.” The Prisoned One laughed loud and merrily. “My guardian understands m... ...” said General Foy, wiping a tear from his eye, which was blackened by the force of the blow; “he was wounded an hour since in a duel, Sire, by a youn... ...espect the valor of the Republic. The novelist ever and anon finds himself forced to adopt the sterner tone of the historian, when describing deeds co... ...by the constitutions of the Empire, Emperor of the French Republic, to our marshals, generals, officers, and soldiers, greeting: “‘Soldiers! “‘From th...