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Sample ## Take a look inside BURLESQUES By William Makepeace Thackeray CONTENTS NOVELS BY EMINENT HANDS. GEORGE DE BARNWELL CODLINGSBY. PHIL FOGARTY. BARBAZURE. LORDS AND LIVERIES. CRINOLINE. THE STARS AND STRIPES. A PLAN FOR A PRIZE NOVEL. THE DIARY OF C. JEAMES DE LA PLUCHE, ESQ., THE TREMENDOUS ADVENTURES OF MAJOR GAHAGAN. CHAPTER I. CHAPTER II. CHAPTER III. CHAPTER IV. CHAPTER V. CHAPTER VI. CHAPTER VII. CHAPTER VIII. CHAPTER IX. A LEGEND OF THE RHINE. CHAPTER I. CHAPTER II. CHAPTER III. CHAPTER IV. CHAPTER V. CHAPTER VI. CHAPTER VII. CHAPTER VIII. CHAPTER IX. CHAPTER X. CHAPTER XI. CHAPTER XII. CHAPTER XIII. REBECCA AND ROWENA. CHAPTER I. CHAPTER II. CHAPTER III. CHAPTER IV. CHAPTER V. CHAPTER VI. CHAPTER VII. THE HISTORY OF THE NEXT FRENCH REVOLUTION. CHAPTER I. CHAPTER II. CHAPTER III. CHAPTER IV. CHAPTER V. CHAPTER VI. CHAPTER VII. CHAPTER VIII. CHAPTER IX. COX'S DIARY. NOVELS BY EMINENT HANDS. GEORGE DE BARNWELL BY SIR E. L. B. L., BART. VOL I. In the Morning of Life the Truthful wooed the Beautiful, and their offspring was Love. Like his Divine parents, He is eternal. He has his Mother's ravishing smile; his Father's steadfast eyes. He rises every day, fresh and glorious as the untired Sun-God. He is Eros, the ever young. Dark, dark were this world of ours had either Divinity left it—dark without the day-beams of the Latonian Charioteer, darker yet without the daedal Smile of the God of the Other Bow! Dost know him, reader? Old is he, Eros, the ever young. He and Time were children together. Chronos shall die, too; but Love is imperishable. Brightest of the Divinities, where hast thou not been sung? Other worships pass away; the idols for whom pyramids were raised lie in the desert crumbling and almost nameless; the Olympians are fled, their fanes no longer rise among… [ Sign in to buy ](https://publica.now/access?redirect=%2Fcreators%2Fvito%2Fworks%2Fburlesques) The sample continues in the full work. 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