The Virginians A Tale Of The Last Century

Author : William Makepeace Thackeray
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781391897837
Total Pages : 58 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (978 download)

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Download or read book The Virginians written by William Makepeace Thackeray and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-10-05 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Virginians: A Tale of the Last Century As for Miles, Tros Tyriusve is all one to him. He only reads the sporting announcements in the Norwich paper. So long as there is good scent, he does not care about the state of the country. I believe the rascal has never read my poems, much more my tragedies (for I mentioned Pocahontas to him the other day, and the dunce thought she was a river in Virginia) and with respect to my Latin verses, how can he understand them, when I know he can't construe Corderius Why this note-book lies publicly on the little table at my corner of the fireside, and anyone may read in it who will take the trouble of lifting my spectacles off the cover: but Miles never hath. I insert in the loose pages caricatures of Miles: jokes against him: but he never knows nor heeds them. Only once, in place of a neat drawing of mine, in China-ink, representing Miles asleep after dinner, and which my friend Bunbury would not disown, I found a rude picture of myself going over my, mare Sultana's head, and entitled The Squire on Horseback, or Fish out of Water. And the fellow to roar with laughter, and all the girls to titter, when I came upon the page My wife said she never was in such a fright as when I went to my book but I can bear a joke against myself, and have heard many, though (strange to say for one who has lived among some of the chief wits of the age) I never heard a good one in my life. Never mind, Miles, though thou art not a wit, I love thee none the worse (there never was any love lost between two wits in a family); though thou hast no great beauty, thy mother thinks thee as handsome as Apollo, or His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, who was born in the very same year with thee. Indeed, she always thinks Coates's picture of the Prince is very like her eldest boy, and has the print in her dressing room to this very day. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.