The Cornhill Magazine, Volume 38William Makepeace Thackeray Smith, Elder., 1878 |
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Pagina 4
... thought of care and design , lay a little volume , bound in dingy white and gold . Percival did not touch it , but he stooped and read the title , The Language of Flowers , and saw that - purely by accident of course — a leaf was ...
... thought of care and design , lay a little volume , bound in dingy white and gold . Percival did not touch it , but he stooped and read the title , The Language of Flowers , and saw that - purely by accident of course — a leaf was ...
Pagina 7
... thought of him as little more than a boy , the boy who used to play to him in the twilight , and he had some trouble to realise that Bertie must be nearly two - and - twenty . If he should come -but most likely he would not come . It ...
... thought of him as little more than a boy , the boy who used to play to him in the twilight , and he had some trouble to realise that Bertie must be nearly two - and - twenty . If he should come -but most likely he would not come . It ...
Pagina 9
... thought , " but you're precious glad . " And she added aloud , " Then the pleasure comes all the more unexpected , don't it ? " She looked sideways at Percival , and lowered her voice , " P'r'aps Miss Lisle meant a little surprise ...
... thought , " but you're precious glad . " And she added aloud , " Then the pleasure comes all the more unexpected , don't it ? " She looked sideways at Percival , and lowered her voice , " P'r'aps Miss Lisle meant a little surprise ...
Pagina 10
... thought him handsomer than ever . He ceased his soft whistling , and held out his hand . " Thorne ! At last ! I was ... thought your grandfather died last summer ? " " So he did . " " But I thought you were to come in for 10 " FOR ...
... thought him handsomer than ever . He ceased his soft whistling , and held out his hand . " Thorne ! At last ! I was ... thought your grandfather died last summer ? " " So he did . " " But I thought you were to come in for 10 " FOR ...
Pagina 11
... thought possible . When he had made sure that he was tolerably presentable , he waited by his open door till his fellow - lodgers appeared , and then stepped out on the landing to meet them . Miss Lisle , dressed very simply in black ...
... thought possible . When he had made sure that he was tolerably presentable , he waited by his open door till his fellow - lodgers appeared , and then stepped out on the landing to meet them . Miss Lisle , dressed very simply in black ...
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Pagina 588 - It is not growing like a tree In bulk doth make man better be; Or standing long an oak, three hundred year, To fall a log at last, dry, bald, and sere: A lily of a day Is fairer far in May; Although it fall and die that night, It was the plant and flower of light. In small proportions we just beauties see, And in short measures life may perfect be.
Pagina 610 - Effingham used to express it, " from the crown of her head to the sole of her foot.
Pagina 69 - was well begun, Then, from thy breast what thought, Beneath so beautiful a sun, So sad a sigh has brought?
Pagina 69 - My eyes are dim with childish tears, My heart is idly stirred, For the same sound is in my ears Which in those days I heard. Thus fares it still in our decay : And yet the wiser mind Mourns less for what age takes away Than what it leaves behind.
Pagina 453 - If they be two, they are two so As stiff twin compasses are two: Thy soul, the fixed foot, makes no show To move, but doth if th
Pagina 65 - Daisy took her seat in the carriage, and the fortunate Italian placed himself beside her. "Don't forget Eugenie's pills!" said Winterbourne as he lifted his hat. "I don't care," said Daisy in a little strange tone, "whether I have Roman fever or not!
Pagina 222 - Oh, my dear, dear Dickens! what a No. 5 you have now given us! I have so cried and sobbed over it last night, and again this morning ; and felt my heart purified by those tears, and blessed and loved you for making me shed them; and I never can bless and love you enough.
Pagina 46 - I must say they have been very sociable ; they have taken her right in. And then she knows a great many gentlemen. Oh, she thinks there's nothing like Rome. Of course, it's a great deal pleasanter for a young lady if she knows plenty of gentlemen.
Pagina 204 - miseram et te perdidit, Orpheu, Quis tantus furor ? En iterum crudelia retro Fata vocant, conditque natantia lumina somnus. lamque vale : feror ingenti circumdata nocte Invalidasque tibi tendens, heu non tua, palmas.
Pagina 39 - ... her himself rather than desert his post without orders. Just then, perhaps the Merry Monarch was chasing a moth round the supper-table with the ladies of his court. When Raleigh sailed into Cadiz, and all the forts and ships opened fire on him at once, he scorned to shoot a gun, and made aiu*-er with a flourish of insulting trumpets.