Word: death
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...Death is of all things...
Silence of death in the oaken hall...
Ever yours till death...
...Perhaps there is no quality which we should less expect to find in a cynic than that of pathos, certainly there is none in which Thackeray more excels. And, moreover, his pathos is extremely simple and unartificial. A good instance of it is the description of Colonel Newcome's death. In this there is no introduction of surroundings for the sake of dramatic effect; the account reads like that of one whose grief was too sincere for elaboration. It seems as if the author were lost in the friend...
...spoke of love triumphant over death...