The Cornhill MagazineWilliam Makepeace Thackeray Smith, Elder and Company, 1906 |
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... feel altogether so keen - set as I did five minutes back , ' muttered Billy Priske . ' For my part , ' said Mr. Fett , anointing the gridiron with a pat of ship's butter , I offer no remark upon it beyond the somewhat banal one by which ...
... feel altogether so keen - set as I did five minutes back , ' muttered Billy Priske . ' For my part , ' said Mr. Fett , anointing the gridiron with a pat of ship's butter , I offer no remark upon it beyond the somewhat banal one by which ...
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... feel wholly strange when he made this fresh start in life . He had come up in the caravan which he had bought from some gipsies in the South of Devon , and had intended to use it only as a convenient way of transporting his small family ...
... feel wholly strange when he made this fresh start in life . He had come up in the caravan which he had bought from some gipsies in the South of Devon , and had intended to use it only as a convenient way of transporting his small family ...
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... feels himself in the wrong , began to explain very forcibly how entirely he was in the right , how the person to be ashamed was not he but she , and so on . There is no originality in these matrimonial disturbances . Sarah , like a wise ...
... feels himself in the wrong , began to explain very forcibly how entirely he was in the right , how the person to be ashamed was not he but she , and so on . There is no originality in these matrimonial disturbances . Sarah , like a wise ...
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... feeling , or the habit of long years , prevailed , and he retraced his steps , grudging each inch of the backward path till he reached his brother , prone and exhausted . To his imperious command to get up and come on Mike replied ...
... feeling , or the habit of long years , prevailed , and he retraced his steps , grudging each inch of the backward path till he reached his brother , prone and exhausted . To his imperious command to get up and come on Mike replied ...
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... feel an intolerable oppression between him and the sky . They talked of many things and I listened . The tinker's forbears had fought in the Rebellion of '98 , on the right side , be sure . Wasn't his grandfather killed at Oulart Hollow ...
... feel an intolerable oppression between him and the sky . They talked of many things and I listened . The tinker's forbears had fought in the Rebellion of '98 , on the right side , be sure . Wasn't his grandfather killed at Oulart Hollow ...
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Página 546 - Oh that I knew where I might find him ! that I might come even to his seat ! I would order my cause before him, and fill my mouth with arguments.
Página 411 - But never either found another To free the hollow heart from paining — They stood aloof, the scars remaining, Like cliffs which had been rent asunder; A dreary sea now flows between;— But neither heat, nor frost, nor thunder, Shall wholly do away, I ween, The marks of that which once hath been.
Página 316 - The schoolboy whips his taxed top; the beardless youth manages his taxed horse, with a taxed bridle, on a taxed road ; and the dying Englishman, pouring his medicine, which has paid...
Página 728 - Come, my beloved, let us go forth into the field ; Let us lodge in the villages. Let us get up early to the vineyards; Let us see if the vine flourish, whether the tender grape appear, And the pomegranates bud forth: There will I give thee my loves.
Página 42 - Why should Honesty fly to some safer retreat, From attorneys and barges, od rot 'em ? For the lawyers are just at the top of the street, And the barges are just at the bottom.
Página 318 - A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall. Speak what you think now in hard words, and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict everything you said today. "Ah, so you shall be sure to be misunderstood.
Página 41 - Mr. Leach Made a speech, Angry, neat, but wrong : Mr. Hart, On the other part, Was heavy, dull, and long; Mr. Parker Made the case darker, Which was dark enough without : Mr. Cooke Cited his book, And the Chancellor said — I doubt.
Página 319 - One who never turned his back but marched breast forward, Never doubted clouds would break, Never dreamed, though right were worsted, wrong would triumph, Held we fall to rise, are baffled to fight better, Sleep to wake.
Página 318 - To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men, — that is genius.
Página 737 - And pictures in our eyes to get Was all our propagation. As 'twixt two equal armies fate Suspends uncertain victory, Our souls (which to advance their state Were gone out) hung 'twixt her and me. And whilst our souls negotiate there, We like sepulchral statues lay; All day the same our postures were, And we said nothing all the day.