The Cornhill Magazine, Volume 38William Makepeace Thackeray Smith, Elder., 1878 |
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Pagina 2
... writing . That evening he left the office to the minute , and hurried to Bellevue Street . He got half way up the stairs and met no one , but he heard a voice on the landing exclaim , " Go to old Fordham's caddy , then , for you shan't ...
... writing . That evening he left the office to the minute , and hurried to Bellevue Street . He got half way up the stairs and met no one , but he heard a voice on the landing exclaim , " Go to old Fordham's caddy , then , for you shan't ...
Pagina 8
... writing to each other ever since . Clifton is evidently undergoing tortures with the man he has got now , so I should not wonder if we are at Brenthill in a few days -it will be better for my chance of pupils , too . I shall look you up ...
... writing to each other ever since . Clifton is evidently undergoing tortures with the man he has got now , so I should not wonder if we are at Brenthill in a few days -it will be better for my chance of pupils , too . I shall look you up ...
Pagina 24
... writer could be saved from the wreck , and that their insular library would have to consist of the productions of one mind . Persons of a religious turn have , it goes without saying , pro- nounced a verdict in favour of the Bible ...
... writer could be saved from the wreck , and that their insular library would have to consist of the productions of one mind . Persons of a religious turn have , it goes without saying , pro- nounced a verdict in favour of the Bible ...
Pagina 25
... writer and a critic pure and simple . In that capacity , he did , it seems to me , work that of its kind is unequalled in interest and merit . He is the best companion I know ; and oral conversation should indeed be good to wean us from ...
... writer and a critic pure and simple . In that capacity , he did , it seems to me , work that of its kind is unequalled in interest and merit . He is the best companion I know ; and oral conversation should indeed be good to wean us from ...
Pagina 26
... writing down a date - though poor old Rollin would have done so - and saying all this side of it is modern , and all that side ancient history , every one feels that there are ancient writers and modern writers conquerors of old and ...
... writing down a date - though poor old Rollin would have done so - and saying all this side of it is modern , and all that side ancient history , every one feels that there are ancient writers and modern writers conquerors of old and ...
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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.