Identifier: lifedeathbeingau00lewi (find matches)
Title: Life and death : being an authentic account of the deaths of one hundred celebrated men and women, with their portraits
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: Lewin, Thomas Herbert, 1839-1916
Subjects: Death Portraits Celebrities
Publisher: London : Constable and Co. Ltd.
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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in the twilight, at thetime when the clubs are filled with men who have dropped in on theirhomeward way to hear the latest news, a rumour ran through London thatThackeray was dead. I myself heard it on the club steps from a friend whohad just returned from telegraphing the news to an Irish newspaper. . . .Thackeray was dead, and the purest English prose-writer of the nineteenthcentury, and the novelist with the greatest knowledge of the human heart,with the exception perhaps of Shakespeare and Balzac, was suddenly struckdown in the midst of us. No long illness, no lingering decay, no gradualsuspension of power; almost pen in hand like Kempenfeldt he went down. I lay the weary pen aside. And wish you love and wealth and mirth. As fits the solemn Christmas birth, As fits the holy Christmas birth. Be this good friends our carol still, Be peace on earth—be peace on earth To men of gentle will. Authorities: Dictionary of National Biography; Browns Horae Subsecivae; Writings of Thackeray.
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Chari.es Dickens. No. 92The Death of Charles Dickens. Borni8i2. Died 1870. ON the 8th June he passed all the day writing in the Chalet at hishouse at Gadshill, near Rochester. He was late in leaving the Chalet;but before dinner, which was ordered at six oclock with the intentionof walking afterwards in the lanes, he wrote some letters, and dinner wasbegun before Miss Hogarth saw with alarm a singular expression of troubleand pain in his face. For an hour, he then told her, he had been veryill, but he wished dinner to go on. These were the only really coherentwords that fell from him. He spoke disconnectedly of quite other matters;of an approaching sale at a neighbours house and of his own intention togo immediately to London; and at this he rose, and his sister-in-laws helpalone prevented him from falling where he stood. Her effort then was to gethim on the sofa, but after a slight struggle he sank heavily on his left side.On the ground, were the last words he spoke. It was now a litt

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