Template:RQ:Thackeray English Humourists
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1853, W[illiam] M[akepeace] Thackeray, “(please specify the page)”, in The English Humourists of the Eighteenth Century. […], London: Smith, Elder, & Co. […]; Bombay, Maharashtra: Smith, Taylor, & Co., →OCLC:
- The following documentation is located at Template:RQ:Thackeray English Humourists/documentation. [edit]
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Usage[edit]
This template may be used in Wiktionary entries to format quotations from William Makepeace Thackeray's work The English Humourists of the Eighteenth Century (1st edition, 1853). It can be used to create a link to an online version of the work (contents) at the Internet Archive.
| Chapter | First page number |
|---|---|
| Lecture the First. Swift. | page 1 |
| Lecture the Second. Congreve and Addison. | page 5 |
| Lecture the Third. Steele. | page 105 |
| Lecture the Fourth. Prior, Gay, and Pope. | page 160 |
| Lecture the Fifth. Hogarth, Tobias Smollett, and Fielding. | page 219 |
| Lecture the Sixth. Sterne and Goldsmith. | page 269 |
Parameters[edit]
The template takes the following parameters:
|1=or|page=, or|pages=– mandatory: the page number(s) quoted from. If quoting a range of pages, note the following:- Separate the first and last page number of the range with an en dash, like this:
|pages=10–11. - You must also use
|pageref=to indicate the page to be linked to (usually the page on which the Wiktionary entry appears).
- Separate the first and last page number of the range with an en dash, like this:
- This parameter must be specified to have the template determine the name of the chapter quoted from, and to link to the online version of the work.
|2=,|text=, or|passage=– the passage to be quoted.|footer=– a comment on the passage quoted.|brackets=– use|brackets=onto surround a quotation with brackets. This indicates that the quotation either contains a mere mention of a term (for example, "some people find the word manoeuvre hard to spell") rather than an actual use of it (for example, "we need to manoeuvre carefully to avoid causing upset"), or does not provide an actual instance of a term but provides information about related terms.
Examples[edit]
- Wikitext:
{{RQ:Thackeray English Humourists|page=139|passage=[S]ome [letters] are composed in a high state of vinous excitement, when his head is '''flustered''' with Burgundy, and his heart abounds with amorous warmth for his darling Prue: some are under the influence of the dismal headache and repentance next morning: {{...}}}}; or{{RQ:Thackeray English Humourists|139|[S]ome [letters] are composed in a high state of vinous excitement, when his head is '''flustered''' with Burgundy, and his heart abounds with amorous warmth for his darling Prue: some are under the influence of the dismal headache and repentance next morning: {{...}}}}
- Result:
- 1853, W[illiam] M[akepeace] Thackeray, “Lecture the Third. Steele.”, in The English Humourists of the Eighteenth Century. […], London: Smith, Elder, & Co. […]; Bombay, Maharashtra: Smith, Taylor, & Co., →OCLC, page 139:
- [S]ome [letters] are composed in a high state of vinous excitement, when his head is flustered with Burgundy, and his heart abounds with amorous warmth for his darling Prue: some are under the influence of the dismal headache and repentance next morning: […]
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