. Thackerayana;. quickly gotready for him; which, together with bleeding and other helps,brought him by degrees to life and reason. He looked roundabout him for some time, and at last, seeing and knowing me,inquired after his chaise. I told him it was safe, though a gooddeal damaged. No matter, madam, he replied; it has donemy business ; it has carried me a journey from this world to thenext. I shall have no use for it again. The World is now atan end ! I thought it destined to last a longer period; but thedecrees of fate are not to be resisted. It would have pleased meto have written the last
. Thackerayana;. quickly gotready for him; which, together with bleeding and other helps,brought him by degrees to life and reason. He looked roundabout him for some time, and at last, seeing and knowing me,inquired after his chaise. I told him it was safe, though a gooddeal damaged. No matter, madam, he replied; it has donemy business ; it has carried me a journey from this world to thenext. I shall have no use for it again. The World is now atan end ! I thought it destined to last a longer period; but thedecrees of fate are not to be resisted. It would have pleased meto have written the last paper myself, but that task, madam, mustbe yours ; and, however painful it may be to your modesty, I con-jure you to undertake it. . My epitaph, if the public might beso satisfied, I would have decent and concise. It would offendmy modesty if, after the name of FitzAdam, more were to beadded than these words :— He was the deepest Philosopher, The wittiest Writer, and The greatest Man Of this Age or THE CONNOISSEUR: 357 CHAPTER XV. thackerays familiarity with the writings of thesatirical essayists— Continued. Characteristic Passages from the Compositions of the Early Humourists, fromThackerays Library, illustrated by the Authors hand with original MarginalSketches suggested by the Text—The Connoisseur, 1754—Introduction—Review of Contributors—Paragraphs and Pencillings. Preface to the Connoisseur. The Connoisseur was undertaken by a brace of congenialwits, George Colman the elder, well known as a humorist anddramatic writer, and Bonnel Thornton, both of whom at the timethey obliged the public with this publication were very young men,still pursuing their studies at Oxford University. They appear tohave entered into a partnership, of which the following account isgiven in their last paper :—We have not only joined in the worktaken altogether, says the writer of No. 140. but almost everysingle paper is the product of both; and, as we have labouredequally in
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