. Thackerayana;. ith a falsefront? and so forth. About 1830 Thackeray re-paired to Weimar, in Saxony,where, as he describes it, helived with a score of youngEnglish lads, for study, orsport, or society. Mr. G. , in his Life of Goethe,tells us that Weimar albumsstill display with pride the cari-catures which the young artistsketched at that period. Mydelight in those days, saysMr. Thackeray, was to makecaricatures for children—ahabit, we may add, which henever forgot. Years after-wards, in the fulness of hisfame, revisiting the friendly little Saxon capital, he found, to his great deligh
. Thackerayana;. ith a falsefront? and so forth. About 1830 Thackeray re-paired to Weimar, in Saxony,where, as he describes it, helived with a score of youngEnglish lads, for study, orsport, or society. Mr. G. , in his Life of Goethe,tells us that Weimar albumsstill display with pride the cari-catures which the young artistsketched at that period. Mydelight in those days, saysMr. Thackeray, was to makecaricatures for children—ahabit, we may add, which henever forgot. Years after-wards, in the fulness of hisfame, revisiting the friendly little Saxon capital, he found, to his great delight, that these were yet remembered, and some evenpreserved still; but he was muchmore proud to be told, as a lad,that the great Goethe himself hadlooked at some of them. In a letterto his friend Mr. Lewes, inserted bythe latter in the work referred to,Thackeray has given a pleasing pic-ture of this period of his life, andof the circle in which he foundhimself. The Grand Duke andDuchess (he tells us) received the.
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