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<FONT> <A href="http://www.new-tradition.org/investigation-historical-dating.php">canadian history</A> <A href="http://www.new-tradition.org/egyptian-horo.php">map of russia</A> <A href="http://www.new-tradition.org/real-egypt.php">texas history</A> <A href="http://www.new-tradition.org/civilevents.php">black history fact</A> <A href="http://www.new-tradition.org/real-jesus.php">adventure tour</A> <A href="http://www.new-tradition.org/view-garry-kasparov.php">this day in history</A> <A href="http://www.new-tradition.org/why-tourism.php">medieval clothing</A> <A href="http://www.new-tradition.org/money-war.php">baseball history</A> <A href="http://www.new-tradition.org">bible online</A> <A href="http://www.new-tradition.org">warped tour</A> <A href="http://www.new-tradition.org/investigation-eng-history.php">historical map</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"> jesus video</A></b> <br> Essays: English and American.The Harvard Classics. 190914. Jonathan Swift William Makepeace Thackeray <b> <A href="http://www.new-tradition.org"> jesus coloring page</A></b> <br> IN 1 treating of sp 500 historical English humourists of sp 500 historical past age, it is of sp 500 historical 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, sp 500 historical story goes, sp 500 historical melancholy patient whom sp 500 historical Doctor advised to go and see Harlequina man full of cares and perplexities like sp 500 historical rest of us, whose Self must always be serious to him, under whatever mask or disguise or uniform he presents it to sp 500 historical 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 sp 500 historical 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 sp 500 historical private life of poor Harlequin just mentioned, who possesses in common with these sp 500 historical power of making you laugh. But sp 500 historical 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 sp 500 historical weak, sp 500 historical poor, sp 500 historical oppressed, sp 500 historical unhappy. To sp 500 historical best of his means and ability he comments on all sp 500 historical ordinary actions and passions of life almost. He takes upon himself to be himself to be sp 500 historical week-day preacher, so to speak. Accordingly, as he finds, and speaks, and feels sp 500 historical 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 sp 500 historical 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 sp 500 historical 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 sp 500 historical recommendation of his mother, Swift was received into sp 500 historical family of Sir William Temple, who had known Mrs. Swift in Ireland. He left his patron in 1694, and sp 500 historical next year took orders in Dublin. But he threw up sp 500 historical 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 sp 500 historical 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 sp 500 historical most distinguished part in sp 500 historical political transactions which terminated with sp 500 historical 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 sp 500 historical 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 sp 500 historical last time on hearing of his wifes illness. Stella died in January, 1728, and Swift not until 1745, having passed sp 500 historical last five of sp 500 historical 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 sp 500 historical 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 sp 500 historical company of poets, receives sp 500 historical 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 sp 500 historical other side of sp 500 historical street. Dr. Wilde of Dublin, who has written a most interesting volume on sp 500 historical 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 sp 500 historical famous Stella and Vanessa controversy sp 500 historical Doctor does not bear very hardly on Swift. But he could not give sp 500 historical Dean that honest hand of his; sp 500 historical 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 sp 500 historical 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 sp 500 historical Temple, and after helping him up to bed perhaps, andng his door with his latch-key, to have shaken hands with him in sp 500 historical 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 sp 500 historical 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 sp 500 historical 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 sp 500 historical most delightful company in sp 500 historical 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 sp 500 historical indulgence of his humour and that he was sp 500 historical most reckless, simple creature in sp 500 historical world. How he would have torn your enemies to pieces for you! and made fun of sp 500 historical Opposition! His servility was so boisterous that it looked like independence; he would have done your errands, but with sp 500 historical air of patronizing you, and after fighting your battles, masked, in sp 500 historical street or sp 500 historical press, would have kept on his hat before your wife and daughters in sp 500 historical 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 sp 500 historical reputation of wit and great learning does sp 500 historical 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 sp 500 historical sound of coaches and six, takes sp 500 historical 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 sp 500 historical mud. He eases sp 500 historical one of a living, sp 500 historical other of a patent place, sp 500 historical third of a little snug post about sp 500 historical Court, and gives them over to followers of his own. The great prize has not come yet. The coach with sp 500 historical mitre and crosier in it, which he intends to have for his share, has been delayed on sp 500 historical way from St. James; and he waits and waits until nightfall, when his runners come and tell him that sp 500 historical coach has taken a different road, and escaped him. So he fires his pistols into sp 500 historical 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 sp 500 historical morality was laxthat other gentlemen besides himself took sp 500 historical road in his daythat public society was in a strange disordered condition, and sp 500 historical State was ravaged by other condottieri. The Boyne was being fought and won, and lostthe bells rung in Williams victory, in sp 500 historical 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 sp 500 historical storm. As in sp 500 historical South Sea Bubble, almost everybody gambled; as in sp 500 historical Railway manianot many centuries agoalmost every one took his unlucky share: a man of that time, of sp 500 historical 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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