. Thackerayana;. Album sketches court the conversation was exceedingly friendly, simple, andpolished. The Grand Duchess (the present Grand DuchessDowager), a lady of very remarkable endowments, would kindlyborrow our books from us,* lend us her own, and graciously talk to * In October 1830, we find Thackeray writing from to a booksellerin Charterhouse Square, for a liberal supply of the Bath post paper, on whichhe wrote his verses and drew his countless sketches. On certain sheets of thispaper, after his memorable interview with Goethe, we find the young, artist :oS RESI
. Thackerayana;. Album sketches court the conversation was exceedingly friendly, simple, andpolished. The Grand Duchess (the present Grand DuchessDowager), a lady of very remarkable endowments, would kindlyborrow our books from us,* lend us her own, and graciously talk to * In October 1830, we find Thackeray writing from to a booksellerin Charterhouse Square, for a liberal supply of the Bath post paper, on whichhe wrote his verses and drew his countless sketches. On certain sheets of thispaper, after his memorable interview with Goethe, we find the young, artist :oS RESIDENCE AT WEIMAR. 109 us young men about our literary tastes and pursuits. In therespect paid by this court to the patriarch of letters there wassomething ennobling, I think, alike to the subject and a five-and-twenty years experience since those happy daysof which I write (says our author), and an acquaintance withan immense variety of human kind, I think I have never seen asociety more simple, charitable, courteous, gentlemanlike, thanthat of the dear little Saxon city where the good Schiller and thegreat Goethe lived and lie buried. * The preceding sketch of sleighing, which has all the life andspirit of a drawing executed whilst the recollection of its subject isstill fresh, was evidently made at the periodof Thackerays residence at Weimar. Hehas left various pen-and-ink dottings ofthe quaint houses in this town, which cor-respond with the little buildings in theabove landscape. Thackeray frequently carries his read-ers back to the delightful days he spent atthe
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