The Cornhill MagazineWilliam Makepeace Thackeray Smith, Elder and Company, 1906 |
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... told . Some six weeks ago , happening , in search of a theatrical engagement , to find myself in the neighbourhood of Stonehenge , I fell in with a pedestrian whose affability of accost invited me to a closer acquaintance . He ...
... told . Some six weeks ago , happening , in search of a theatrical engagement , to find myself in the neighbourhood of Stonehenge , I fell in with a pedestrian whose affability of accost invited me to a closer acquaintance . He ...
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... told me that Lady Jersey , sitting in one of her windows on a warm evening in June 1815 , was startled by a shouting crowd , following as best it could a carriage passing through the Square . On inquiry she found that it contained ...
... told me that Lady Jersey , sitting in one of her windows on a warm evening in June 1815 , was startled by a shouting crowd , following as best it could a carriage passing through the Square . On inquiry she found that it contained ...
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... told . When inquiring after Lord Lansdowne of Mr. James Howard , he called him back and said , ' I mean the present Lord Lansdowne . ' Lord Dudley , Foreign Secretary in Canning's Administration , was commonly called Eccentricity Ward ...
... told . When inquiring after Lord Lansdowne of Mr. James Howard , he called him back and said , ' I mean the present Lord Lansdowne . ' Lord Dudley , Foreign Secretary in Canning's Administration , was commonly called Eccentricity Ward ...
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... told him to sit in a pew ( in the afternoon ) and cough , for women love a consumptive parson . ' In a pecuniary point of view he was confident , nay , ' he said , ' the calculations may be established as irresistibly as an algebraic ...
... told him to sit in a pew ( in the afternoon ) and cough , for women love a consumptive parson . ' In a pecuniary point of view he was confident , nay , ' he said , ' the calculations may be established as irresistibly as an algebraic ...
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... told the peers that they must acquit the prisoner ; and this they proceeded to do all except the last Duke of Cleveland , who insisted on voting ' Not guilty legally , upon my honour . ' Formalities stood Lord Cardigan in good stead ...
... told the peers that they must acquit the prisoner ; and this they proceeded to do all except the last Duke of Cleveland , who insisted on voting ' Not guilty legally , upon my honour . ' Formalities stood Lord Cardigan in good stead ...
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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.