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...Excerpt: Advertisement. The story of ?Catherine,? which appeared in Fraser?s Magazine in 1839-40, was written by Mr. Thackeray, under the name of Ikey Solomons, Jun., to counteract the injurious influence of some popular fictions of that day, which made heroe...

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...cation Catherine: A Story by William Makepeace Thackeray is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...or, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Docu- ment File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...e with you, and I am sorry, sure enough.” “In truth, Peter, I believe thou art; thou hast good reason, eh, Peter? But never fear, man; had I struck th... ... or better still, a very little tipsy, was a complete master of it; in the art of boasting and lying he had hardly any equals; in shoes he stood six f... ...en. As the slave at the car of the Roman conqueror shouted, “Remember thou art mortal!”, before the eyes of the British warrior rode the undertaker an... ...not the 126 Catherine: A Story Burney collection of music, at the British Museum, afford one an ample store of songs from which to choose? Are there ... ...e into good feeling. And although he doth not pre- tend to equal the great modern authors, whom he hath men- tioned, in wit or descriptive power; yet,...

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...books* one by Mr. Grant White on England, one on France by the diabolically clever Mr. Hillebrand, may well have set people thinking on the divisions of races and nations. Such thoughts should arise with particular congruity and force to inhabitants of that United Kingdom, peopled from so many different stocks, babbling so many different dialects, and offering in its exten...

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...Robert Louis Stevenson (1912 Chatto and Windus edition) is a publica- tion of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furni... ...ity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...e Cornhill, Longman ’s, Scribner, The english Illustrated, The Magazine of Art, The contemporary Review; three are here in print for the first time; a... ...nful air that led him on to victory. A passing enthusiasm for some foreign art or fashion may deceive the world, it cannot impose upon his intimates. ... ...presence could impart a savour of quaint antiquity to the baldest and most modern flower-plots. There was a dig- nity about his tall stooping form, an... ..., like Stonehenge, are still afoot, the rest clean vanished. It may be the Museum numbers a full set; and Mr. Ionides perhaps, or else her gracious Ma... ...entertainment and is found enough. Dumas approaches perhaps nearest of any modern to these Arabian authors in the purely material charm of some of his... ...’” On this quotation two remarks fall to be made. First, as an instance of modern feeling for romance, this famous touch 116 Robert Louis Stevenson o...