The Oxford Thackeray: With Illustrations, Tema 76,Volumen16

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H. Frowde, Oxford University Press, 1862

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Página 58 - ... of pulls on the river, of delicious reading of novels, magazines, and saunterings in many studios ; a land where men call each other by their Christian names; where most are poor, where almost all are young, and where, if a few oldsters do enter, it is because they have preserved more tenderly and carefully than other folks their youthful spirits, and the delightful capacity to be idle. I have lost my way to Bohemia now, but it is certain that Prague is the most picturesque city in the world.
Página 58 - ... teatables ; a land over which hangs an endless fog, occasioned by much tobacco ; a land of chambers, billiardrooms, supper-rooms, oysters ; a land of song ; a land where soda-water flows freely in the morning ; a land of tin dish-covers from taverns, and frothing porter ; a land of...

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