The Cornhill MagazineWilliam Makepeace Thackeray Smith, Elder and Company, 1909 |
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... answered the question in a spirit of indignation and finality . Esther , it was pointed out , had no affiliations with the stage ; she had exhibited no special aptitudes for such a pro- fession ; the competition was heart - breaking and ...
... answered the question in a spirit of indignation and finality . Esther , it was pointed out , had no affiliations with the stage ; she had exhibited no special aptitudes for such a pro- fession ; the competition was heart - breaking and ...
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... answered mildly : ' I'm not very good at expressing myself , but you know what I mean . ' ' I think I know what you mean , ' said Esther , but I should like to be sure . You have been terrified lest Harry should ask me to marry him ...
... answered mildly : ' I'm not very good at expressing myself , but you know what I mean . ' ' I think I know what you mean , ' said Esther , but I should like to be sure . You have been terrified lest Harry should ask me to marry him ...
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... answered emphati- cally in the negative . He did not remember Sir Charles Wetherell , who , with " his only lucid interval " ( as the Speaker of the day called the space between his waistcoat and his braceless trousers ) dis- appeared ...
... answered emphati- cally in the negative . He did not remember Sir Charles Wetherell , who , with " his only lucid interval " ( as the Speaker of the day called the space between his waistcoat and his braceless trousers ) dis- appeared ...
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... answer passing between Lord Liverpool and Wellington in October 1809 - If you have to withdraw the army , how is it to be done ? No thought of with- drawing has as yet been entertained , ' was Raglan's prompt response . Read only the ...
... answer passing between Lord Liverpool and Wellington in October 1809 - If you have to withdraw the army , how is it to be done ? No thought of with- drawing has as yet been entertained , ' was Raglan's prompt response . Read only the ...
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... answer , observa- tion and counter - observation , a succession of letters drop casually into the columns of the paper , and people have forgotten one letter before another appears . But Delane , as he once said to me , liked to serve ...
... answer , observa- tion and counter - observation , a succession of letters drop casually into the columns of the paper , and people have forgotten one letter before another appears . But Delane , as he once said to me , liked to serve ...
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Página 349 - To Helen. Helen, thy beauty is to me Like those Nicean barks of yore, That gently, o'er a perfumed sea, The weary, way-worn wanderer bore To his own native shore. On desperate seas long wont to roam, Thy hyacinth hair, thy classic face, Thy Naiad airs have brought me home To the glory that was Greece And the grandeur that was Rome.
Página 319 - Whose buzz the witty and the fair annoys, Yet wit ne'er tastes, and beauty ne'er enjoys: So well-bred spaniels civilly delight In mumbling of the game they dare not bite. Eternal smiles his emptiness betray, As shallow streams run dimpling all the way.
Página 319 - Half froth, half venom, spits himself abroad, In puns, or politics, or tales, or lies, Or spite, or smut, or rhymes, or blasphemies. His wit all seesaw, between that and this, Now high, now low, now master up, now miss, And he himself one vile antithesis.
Página 313 - Nature in her then err'd not, but forgot. ' With every pleasing, every prudent part, Say, what can Chloe want ?' — She wants a heart. She speaks, behaves, and acts, just as she ought, But never, never reach'd one generous thought.
Página 508 - The gray sea and the long black land ; And the yellow half-moon large and low ; And the startled little waves that leap In fiery ringlets from their sleep, As I gain the cove with pushing prow, And quench its speed i
Página 507 - But he looked upon the city, every side, Far and wide, All the mountains topped with temples, all the glades' Colonnades, All the causeys, bridges, aqueducts, - and then, All the men!
Página 238 - AH, did you once see Shelley plain, And did he stop and speak to you, And did you speak to him again? How strange it seems and new...
Página 313 - She, while her lover pants upon her breast, Can mark the figures on an Indian chest ; And when she sees her friend in deep despair, Observes how much a chintz exceeds mohair.
Página 315 - Scarce once herself, by turns all Womankind ! Who, with herself, or others, from her birth Finds all her life one warfare upon earth: Shines in exposing Knaves, and painting Fools, Yet is, whate'er she hates and ridicules.
Página 322 - Yes, she has one, I must aver; When all the world conspires to praise her, The woman's deaf, and does not hear.