The Cornhill MagazineWilliam Makepeace Thackeray Smith, Elder and Company, 1906 |
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... passed some score of them in the meadow below . I saw them plain by the moonlight , and kicked at them to make sure . " ' I did better , ' said Mr. Fett ; ' I gathered a dozen or two in my cap , foreseeing breakfast . Faith , and while ...
... passed some score of them in the meadow below . I saw them plain by the moonlight , and kicked at them to make sure . " ' I did better , ' said Mr. Fett ; ' I gathered a dozen or two in my cap , foreseeing breakfast . Faith , and while ...
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... passed in front of Lady Jersey's windows . Lord Clive , the great Pro - Consul , after his return from India , built there the house now belonging to Lord Powis . At the corner of the Square is the picturesque manor house called Bourdon ...
... passed in front of Lady Jersey's windows . Lord Clive , the great Pro - Consul , after his return from India , built there the house now belonging to Lord Powis . At the corner of the Square is the picturesque manor house called Bourdon ...
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William Makepeace Thackeray. The beautiful Mrs. Norton passed many sad and some happy hours of her life in Chesterfield Street , as a neighbour of Lady Becher's , once Miss O'Neill , whose ' beauty , grace , and simplicity was the theme ...
William Makepeace Thackeray. The beautiful Mrs. Norton passed many sad and some happy hours of her life in Chesterfield Street , as a neighbour of Lady Becher's , once Miss O'Neill , whose ' beauty , grace , and simplicity was the theme ...
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... passed his last days in Curzon Street ; and close to him were his faithful friends — in Hertford Street , George Lord Barrington , and in Berkeley Square , Lord Rowton , whose memory , even in these days of rapid oblivion , still lives ...
... passed his last days in Curzon Street ; and close to him were his faithful friends — in Hertford Street , George Lord Barrington , and in Berkeley Square , Lord Rowton , whose memory , even in these days of rapid oblivion , still lives ...
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... passed - away . Still , I would plead in the critic's ear , At least I have made my moral clear . For you see my meaning : one of the two Took a false view of life , and one a true ; One missed the substance and clasped the shade ; One ...
... passed - away . Still , I would plead in the critic's ear , At least I have made my moral clear . For you see my meaning : one of the two Took a false view of life , and one a true ; One missed the substance and clasped the shade ; One ...
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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.