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Catherine : A Story

By: William Makepeace Thackeray

...BURLESQUES by William Makepeace Thackeray A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Burlesques b... ...ackeray A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Burlesques by William Makepeace Thackeray is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univ... ...A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Burlesques by William Makepeace Thackeray is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity... ...te Electronic Classics Series Publication Burlesques by William Makepeace Thackeray is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. This Por... ...t or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Burlesques by William Makepeace Thackeray, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic ... ...every day, fresh and glorious as the untired Sun-God. He is Eros, the ever young. Dark, dark were this world of ours had either Divinity left it—dark ... ...the God of the Other Bow! Dost know him, reader? Old is he, Eros, the ever young. He and Time were children together. Chronos shall die, too; but Love... ...he streams of Ching- wang-foo; where the minarets soar sparkling above the cy- presses, their reflections quivering in the lucid waters of the Golden ... ...those blue waters, with palace and pinnacle, with gilded dome and towering cy- press, it seemeth a very Paradise of Mahound: but, enter the city, and ...

...He has his Mother?s ravishing smile; his Father?s steadfast eyes. He rises every day, fresh and glorious as the untired Sun-God. He is Eros, the ever young. Dark, dark were this world of ours had either Divinity left it--dark without the daybeams of the Latonian Charioteer, darker yet without the daedal Smile of the God of the Other Bow! Dost know him, reader?...

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