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Works (Volume 25 ).cWilliam Makepeace Thackeray
Works (Volume 25 )
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Author: William Makepeace Thackeray
Page Count: 156 pages
Published Date: 13 Jan 2012
Publisher: General Books
Publication Country: Miami Fl, United States
Language: English
Type: PDF
ISBN: 9781234921781
File size: 9 Mb
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This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1885. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... 259 PICTURE GOSSIP: IN A LETTER FROM MICHAEL ANGELO TITMARSH. All' Tllustrissimo Signor, Il Mio Signor Colendissimo, Augusto Ha Arve, Pittore In Roma. IAM going to fulfil the promise, my dear Augusto, which I uttered, with a faltering voice and streaming eyes, before I stepped into the jingling old courier's vehicle, which was to bear me from Rome to Florence. Can I forget that night-- that parting? Gaunter stood by so affected, that for the last quarter of an hour he did not swear once; Flake's emotion exhibited itself in audible sobs; Jellyson said nought, but thrust a bundle of Torlonia's four-baiocchi cigars into the hand of the departing friend; and you yourself were so deeply agitated by the event, that you took four glasses of absinthe to string up your nerves for the fatal moment. Strange vision of past days !--for vision it seems to me now. And have I been in Rome really and truly? Have I seen the great works of my Christian namesake of the Buonarroti family, and the light arcades of the Vatican? Have I seen the glorious Apollo, and that other divine fiddle-player whom Raphael painted? Yes--and the English dandies swaggering on the Pincian Hill! Yes--and have eaten woodcocks and drank Orvieto hard by the huge broad-shouldered Pantheon Portico, in the comfortable parlours of the " Falcone." Do you recollect that speech I made at Bertini's in proposing the health of the Pope of Rome on Christmas-day?--do you remember it? I don't. But His Holiness, no doubt, heard of the oration, and was flattered by the compliment of the illustrious English traveller. I went to the exhibition of the Royal Academy lately, and all these reminiscences rushed back on a sudden with affecting volubility; not that there was anything in or out of the gallery which put me speciall...

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