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Roundabout Papers
At the start of "Roundabout Papers," Thackeray describes a serene autumn in the quaint town of Chur, Switzerland, where he reflects on the history of the area and the peculiar figure of St. Lucius.
"Roundabout Papers" by William Makepeace Thackeray is a collection of essays and reflections. At the start of "Roundabout Papers," Thackeray describes a serene autumn in the quaint town of Chur, Switzerland, where he reflects on the history of the area and the peculiar figure of St. Lucius.
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I had occasion to pass a week in the autumn in the little old town of Coire or Chur, in the Grisons, where lies buried that very ancient British king, saint, and martyr, Lucius,* who founded the Church of St. Peter, on Cornhill. Few people note the church now-a-days, and fewer ever heard of the saint. In the cathedral at Chur, his statue appears surrounded by other sainted persons of his family. With tight red breeches, a Roman habit, a curly brown beard, and a neat little gilt crown and sceptre, he stands, a very comely and cheerful image: and, from what I may call his peculiar position with regard to Cornhill, I beheld this figure of St. Lucius with more interest than I should have bestowed upon personages who, hierarchically, are, I dare say, his superiors.
The pretty little city stands, so to speak, at the end of the world—of the world of to-day, the world of rapid motion, and rushing railways, and the commerce and intercourse of men. From the northern gate, the iron road stretches away to Zurich, to Basle, to Paris, to home. From the old southern barriers, before which a little river rushes, and around which stretch the crumbling battlements of the ancient town, the road bears the slow diligence or lagging vetturino by the shallow Rhine, through the awful gorges of the Via Mala, and presently over the Splugen to the shores of Como.
Contents
- 01Roundabout Papers.
- 02On a Lazy Idle Boy.
- 03On Two Children in Black.
- 04On Ribbons.
- 05On Some Late Great Victories.
- 06Thorns in the Cushion.
- 07On Screens in Dining-Rooms.
- 08Tunbridge Toys.
- 09De Juventute.
- 10On a Joke I Once Heard from the Late Thomas Hood.
- 11Round About the Christmas Tree.
- 12On a Chalk-Mark on the Door
- 13On Being Found Out.
- 14On a Hundred Years Hence.
- 15Small-Beer Chronicle.
- 16Ogres.
- 17On Two Roundabout Papers Which I Intended to Write.*
- 18A Mississippi Bubble.
- 19On Letts's Diary.
- 20Notes of a Week's Holiday.
- 21Nil Nisi Bonum.
- 22On Half a Loaf.
- 23A Letter to Messrs. Broadway, Battery and Co., of New York, Bankers.
- 24The Notch on the Axe.—A Story a La Mode.
- 25Part I.
- 26Part II.
- 27Part III.
- 28De Finibus.
- 29On a Peal of Bells.
- 30On a Pear-Tree.
- 31Dessein's.
- 32On Some Carp at Sans Souci.
- 33Autour De Mon Chapeau.
- 34On Alexandrines.*
- 35A Letter to Some Country Cousins.
- 36On a Medal of George the Fourth.
- 37“Strange to Say, on Club Paper.”
- 38The Last Sketch.
About this edition
- Author
- William Makepeace Thackeray
- Language
- English
- Era
- Modern (c. 1800–1945)
- Reading level
- Intermediate: some philosophy helps
- Formats
- EPUB, PDF
- Length
- 203 pages
- This edition
- Modern Philosophers
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