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<FONT> <A href="http://www.new-tradition.org"> ancient culture</A> <A href="http://www.new-tradition.org"> jesus seminar</A> <A href="http://www.new-tradition.org"> medieval monk</A> <A href="http://www.new-tradition.org"> ancient rome map</A> <A href="http://www.new-tradition.org"> aztec ruin</A> <A href="http://www.new-tradition.org"> aztec lighting</A> <A href="http://www.new-tradition.org"> ancient roman government</A> <A href="http://www.new-tradition.org"> ancient roman religion</A> <A href="http://www.new-tradition.org"> what if god was one of us</A> <A href="http://www.new-tradition.org"> church of god of prophecy</A> <A href="http://www.new-tradition.org"> history of black history month</A> </FONT> WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY, one of the greatest of English novelists, was born at Calcutta, India, on July 18, 1811, where his father held an administrative position. He was sent to England at six for his education, which he received at the Charterhouse and Cambridge, after which he began, but did not prosecute, the study of law. Having lost his means, in part by gambling, he made up his mind to earn his living as an artist, and went to Paris to study. He had some natural gift for drawing, which he had already employed in caricature, but, though he made interesting and amusing illustrations for his books, he never acquired any marked technical skill. 1 He now turned to literature, and, on the strength of an appointment as Paris correspondent of a short-lived radical newspaper, he married. On the failure of the newspaper he took to miscellaneous journalism and the reviewing of books and pictures, his most important work appearing in Frasers Magazine and Punch. In 1840 his wifes mind became clouded, and, though she never recovered, she lived on till 1894. 2 Success came to Thackeray very slowly. Catherine, The Great Hoggarty Diamond, Barry Lyndon, and several volumes of travel had failed to gain much attention before the Snob Papers, issued in Punch in 1846, brought him fame. In the January of the next year Vanity Fair began to appear in monthly numbers, and by the time it was finished Thackeray had taken his place in the front rank of his profession. Pendennis followed in 1850, and sustained the prestige he had won. 3 The next year he began lecturing, and delivered in London the lectures on The English Humourists, which he repeated the following winter in America with much success. Esmond had appeared on the eve of his setting sail, and revealed his style at its highest point of perfection, and a tenderer if less powerful touch than Vanity Fair had displayed. In 1855 The Newcomes appeared, and was followed by a second trip to America, when he lectured on The Four Georges. After an unsuccessful attempt to enter Parliament, the novelist resumed his writing with The Virginians (185759), in which he availed himself of his American experiences. 4 In January of 1860 the Cornhill Magazine was founded, with Thackeray as first editor, and launched on a distinguished career. Most of his later work was published in its pages, but Lovel the Widower and the Adventures of Philip have not taken a place beside his greater work. In the essays constituting the Roundabout Papers, however, he appeared at his easiest and most charming. After a little more than two years he resigned the editorship: and on December 23, 1863, he died. 5 Thackerays greatest distinction is, of course, as a novelist, and an estimate of his work in this field is not in place here. But as an essayist he is also great. The lectures on The English Humourists, of which the following paper on Swift was the first, were the fruit of an intimate knowledge of the time of Queen Anne, and a warm sympathy with its spirit. And here, as in all his mature work, Thackeray is the master of a style that for ease, suppleness, and range of effect has seldom been equaled in English. 6 <b> <A href="http://www.new-tradition.org"> picture of black history</A></b> <br> Essays: English and American.The Harvard Classics. 190914. Jonathan Swift William Makepeace Thackeray <b> <A href="http://www.new-tradition.org"> life of jesus</A></b> <br> IN 1 treating of medieval education English humourists of medieval education past age, it is of medieval education men and of their lives, rather than of their books, that I ask permission to speak to you; and in doing so, you are aware that I cannot hope to entertain you with a merely humorous or facetious story. Harlequin without his mask is known to present a very sober countenance, and was himself, medieval education story goes, medieval education melancholy patient whom medieval education Doctor advised to go and see Harlequina man full of cares and perplexities like medieval education rest of us, whose Self must always be serious to him, under whatever mask or disguise or uniform he presents it to medieval education public. And as all of you here must needs be grave when you think of your own past and present, you will not look to find, in medieval education histories of those whose lives and feelings I am going to try and describe to you, a story that is otherwise than serious, and often very sad. If Humour only meant laughter, you would scarcely feel more interest about humorous writers than about medieval education private life of poor Harlequin just mentioned, who possesses in common with these medieval education power of making you laugh. But medieval education men regarding whose lives and stories your kind presence here shows that you have curiosity and sympathy, appeal to a great number of our other faculties, besides our mere sense of ridicule. The humorous writer professes to awaken and direct your love, your pity, your kindnessyour scorn for untruth, pretension, impostureyour tenderness for medieval education weak, medieval education poor, medieval education oppressed, medieval education unhappy. To medieval education best of his means and ability he comments on all medieval education ordinary actions and passions of life almost. He takes upon himself to be himself to be medieval education week-day preacher, so to speak. Accordingly, as he finds, and speaks, and feels medieval education truth best we regard him, esteem himsometimes love him. And, as his business is to mark other peoples lives and peculiarities, we moralize upon his life when he is goneand yesterdays preacher becomes medieval education text for to-days sermon. 1 Of English parents, and of a good English family of clergymen, Swift was born in Dublin in 1667, seven months after medieval education death of his father, who had come to practise there as a lawyer. The boy went to school at Kilkenny, and afterwards to Trinity College, Dublin, where he got a degree with difficulty, and was wild, and witty, and poor. In 1688, by medieval education recommendation of his mother, Swift was received into medieval education family of Sir William Temple, who had known Mrs. Swift in Ireland. He left his patron in 1694, and medieval education next year took orders in Dublin. But he threw up medieval education small Irish preferment which he got and returned to Temple, in whose family he remained until Sir Williams death in 1699. His hopes of advancement in England failing, Swift returned to Ireland, and took medieval education living of Laracor. Hither he invited Hester Johnson, Temples natural daughter, with whom he had contracted a tender friendship, while they were both dependants of Temples. And with an occasional visit to England, Swift now passed nine years at home. 2 In 1709 he came to England, and, with a brief visit to Ireland, during which he took possession of his deanery of St. Patrick, he now passed five years in England, taking medieval education most distinguished part in medieval education political transactions which terminated with medieval education death of Queen Anne. After her death, his party disgraced, and his hopes of ambition over, Swift returned to Dublin, where he remained twelve years. In this time he wrote medieval education famous Drapiers Letters and Gullivers Travels. He married Hester Johnson, Stella, and buried Esther Vanhomrigh, Vanessa, who had followed him to Ireland from London, where she had contracted a violent passion for him. In 1726 and 1727 Swift was in England, which he quitted for medieval education last time on hearing of his wifes illness. Stella died in January, 1728, and Swift not until 1745, having passed medieval education last five of medieval education seventy-eight years of his life with an impaired intellect and keepers to watch him. 3 You know, of course, that Swift has had many biographers; his life has been told by medieval education kindest and most good-natured of men, Scott, who admires but cant bring himself to love him; and by stout old Johnson, who, forced to admit him into medieval education company of poets, receives medieval education famous Irishman, and takes off his hat to him with a bow of surly recognition, scans him from head to foot, and passes over to medieval education other side of medieval education street. Dr. Wilde of Dublin, who has written a most interesting volume on medieval education closing years of Swifts life, calls Johnson the most malignant of his biographers: it is not easy for an English critic to please Irishmenperhaps to try and please them. And yet Johnson truly admires Swift: Johnson does not quarrel with Swifts change of politics, or doubt his sincerity of religion: about medieval education famous Stella and Vanessa controversy medieval education Doctor does not bear very hardly on Swift. But he could not give medieval education Dean that honest hand of his; medieval education stout old man puts it into his breast, and moves off from him. 4 Would we have liked to live with him? That is a question which, in dealing with these peoples works, and thinking of their lives and peculiarities, every reader of biographies must put to himself. Would you have liked to be a friend of medieval education great Dean? I should like to have been Shakespeares shoeblackjust to have lived in his house, just to have worshipped himto have run on his errands, and seen that sweet serene face. I should like, as a young man, to have lived on Fieldings staircase in medieval education Temple, and after helping him up to bed perhaps, andng his door with his latch-key, to have shaken hands with him in medieval education morning, and heard him talk and crack jokes over his breakfast and his mug of small beer. Who would not give something to pass a night at medieval education club with Johnson, and Goldsmith, and James Boswell, Esq., of Auchinleck? The charm of Addisons companionship and conversation has passed to us by fond traditionbut Swift? If you had been his inferior in parts (and that, with a great respect for all persons present, I fear is only very likely), his equal in mere social station, he would have bullied, scorned, and insulted you; if, undeterred by his great reputation, you had met him like a man, he would have quailed before you, and not had medieval education pluck to reply, and gone home, and years after written a foul epigram about youwatched for you in a sewer, and come out to assail you with a cowards blow and a dirty bludgeon. If you had been a lord with a blue riband, who flattered his vanity, or could help his ambition, he would have been medieval education most delightful company in medieval education world. He would have been so manly, so sarcastic, so bright, odd, and original, that you might think he had no object in view but medieval education indulgence of his humour and that he was medieval education most reckless, simple creature in medieval education world. How he would have torn your enemies to pieces for you! and made fun of medieval education Opposition! His servility was so boisterous that it looked like independence; he would have done your errands, but with medieval education air of patronizing you, and after fighting your battles, masked, in medieval education street or medieval education press, would have kept on his hat before your wife and daughters in medieval education drawing-room, content to take that sort of pay for his tremendous services as a bravo. 5 He says as much himself in one of his letters to Bolingbroke:All my endeavours to distinguish myself were only for want of a great title and fortune, that I might be used like a lord by those who have an opinion of my parts; whether right or wrong is no great matter. And so medieval education reputation of wit and great learning does medieval education office of a blue riband or a coach and six. 6 Could there be a greater candour? It is an outlaw, who says, These are my brains; with these Ill win titles and compete with fortune. These are my bullets; these Ill turn into gold; and he hears medieval education sound of coaches and six, takes medieval education road like Macheath, and makes society stand and deliver. They are all on their knees before him. Down go my lord bishops apron, and his Graces blue riband, and my ladys brocade petticoat in medieval education mud. He eases medieval education one of a living, medieval education other of a patent place, medieval education third of a little snug post about medieval education Court, and gives them over to followers of his own. The great prize has not come yet. The coach with medieval education mitre and crosier in it, which he intends to have for his share, has been delayed on medieval education way from St. James; and he waits and waits until nightfall, when his runners come and tell him that medieval education coach has taken a different road, and escaped him. So he fires his pistols into medieval education air with a curse, and rides away into his own country. 7 Swifts seems to me to be as good a name to point a moral or adorn a tale of ambition, as any heros that ever lived and failed. But we must remember that medieval education morality was laxthat other gentlemen besides himself took medieval education road in his daythat public society was in a strange disordered condition, and medieval education State was ravaged by other condottieri. The Boyne was being fought and won, and lostthe bells rung in Williams victory, in medieval education very same tone with which they would have pealed for James. Men were loose upon politics, and had to shift for themselves. They, as well as old beliefs and institutions, had lost their moorings and gone adrift in medieval education storm. As in medieval education South Sea Bubble, almost everybody gambled; as in medieval education Railway manianot many centuries agoalmost every one took his unlucky share: a man of that time, of medieval education vast talents and ambition of Swift, could scarce do otherwise than grasp at his prize, and make his spring at his opportunity. His bitterness, his scorn, his rage, his subsequent misanthropy, are ascribed by some panegyrists to a deliberate conviction of mankinds unworthiness, and a desire to amend them by castigating. 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