The book The Life of William Makepeace Thackeray volume 2 was written by author Lewis Saul Benjamin Here you can read free online of The Life of William Makepeace Thackeray volume 2 book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is The Life of William Makepeace Thackeray volume 2 a good or bad book?
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Why rail against the great and wise, And tire us with your ceaseless grumble? " Pray choose us out another text, O man morose and narrow-minded! Come, turn the page I read the next, And then the next, and still I find it. " Read here how wealth was set aside, And folly set in place exalted; How princes footed in the dust While lackeys in the saddle vaulted. " Though thrice a thousand years are past Since David's son, the sad and splendid, The weary King Ecclesiast, Upon his awful tablets penned... it. " Methinks the text is never stale, And life is every day renewing Fresh comments on the old, old tale Of Folly, Fortune, Glory, Ruin. " And hear his summing-up of Napoleon : " He captured many thousand guns; He wrote ' The Great ' before his name; And, dying, only left his sons The recollection of his shame. " Though more than half the world was his, He died without a rood his own, And borrowed from his enemies Six feet of ground to lie upon. " He fought a thousand glorious wars, And more than half the world was his; And somewhere now, in yonder stars, Can tell, mayhap, what greatness is.
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