"I never knew whether to pity or congratulate a man on coming to his senses."

✒️  British novelist (Vanity Fair), 24 December 1863.

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"Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children." - William Makepeace.

From the -colours from each bruised rib- series
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“Are not there little chapters in everybody's life, that seem to be nothing, and yet affect all the rest of the history?” (William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair), born OTD in 1811. 🎂🎉

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Tim Makepeace's drawings are inspired by his visits to see up close during construction. “I'm thinking about the telescope’s purpose as a tool for imaging details we never knew existed and events that happened at the beginning of time.”

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'And many a quiet night,—in slumber sweet and deep,
The pretty fairy people—would visit me in sleep.'
-William Makepeace Thackeray

🎨Gustave Doré

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👤A little behind the scenes of the Russian-Ukrainian conflict. Give peace a chance!🎨Yaroslav Gerzhedovich👥#RussianUkranianConflcit

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"Beside the old hall-fire—upon my nurse's knee,

Of happy fairy days—what tales were told to me!"

-Fairy Days by William Makepeace Thackeray(1811-1863)

Illustration:Helen Marry Jacobs,#FairyTaleTuesday.

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Gm!🤍Hoping for a world peace!☮️🕊

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"EYES OF THE STATE"
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The final for 2021. Can we manage 4 Ophelias together? I think so! Contributions are by John Wood (1801-1870) James Sant (1820-1916), Joseph Kronheim (1810-1896) & Dorothy Primrose as 'Ophelia' by Stephen Makepeace ('Siegfried') Wiens (1937, Worthing Art Gall.)

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Charlotte Brontë's literary hero was William Makepeace Thackeray. She dedicated Jane Eyre to him. Charlotte didn’t know that Thackeray had a mad wife he kept confined in his home. Many in London society assumed this Currer Bell knew Thackeray & modeled Rochester on him.

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Michael Brandon
& Glynis Barber
as Dempsey And Makepeace.
Illustrations from the 1987 annual.

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