. Thackerayana;. respectable governors, and boys of theneighbouring blue coat foundation, their costume completedwith the addition of a fools or dunces long-eared cap. Fantastic designs, even when marked by the early graphictalent which Thackerays rudest scribblings display, are apt to en-tail unpleasant consequences when discovered in school-books,and greater attractions were heldout by works of fiction. Pages of knight- errantry werethe things for inspiration: Quix-ote, Orlando Furioso, Valentineand Orson, the Seven Champions,Cyrus the Grand (and intermin-able), mystic and chivalrous le-gend
. Thackerayana;. respectable governors, and boys of theneighbouring blue coat foundation, their costume completedwith the addition of a fools or dunces long-eared cap. Fantastic designs, even when marked by the early graphictalent which Thackerays rudest scribblings display, are apt to en-tail unpleasant consequences when discovered in school-books,and greater attractions were heldout by works of fiction. Pages of knight- errantry werethe things for inspiration: Quix-ote, Orlando Furioso, Valentineand Orson, the Seven Champions,Cyrus the Grand (and intermin-able), mystic and chivalrous le-gends, clean forgotten in ourgeneration, but which, in Thack-erays boyhood, were consideredfascinating reading ;—quaint ro-mances, Italian, Spanish, and Per-sian tales, familiar enough in thosedays, and oft referred to, with ac-cents of tender regret, in the re-miniscences of the great charms did the Arabian Nights hold out for his kindlingimagination,—how frequently were its heroes and its episodes. In a state of suspense SCHOOLDAY ROMANCES. brought in to supply some apt allusion in his later writings. Itseems that Thackerays pencil never tired of his favourite storiesin the Thousand and One Nights/ precious to him for preserving
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