The Cornhill MagazineWilliam Makepeace Thackeray Smith, Elder and Company, 1909 |
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... brought to her . It contained a pathetic message : ' I have no excuse to offer for what I am about to do except this : I am too old and too tired to begin life again . ' Too old and too tired ! lines . Esther wept when she read the ...
... brought to her . It contained a pathetic message : ' I have no excuse to offer for what I am about to do except this : I am too old and too tired to begin life again . ' Too old and too tired ! lines . Esther wept when she read the ...
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... brought the news that the national poll had closed with a majority of forty for the Liberals . ' Too small , too small , ' said Mr. Gladstone , shaking his head sadly and speaking in low grave voice that betrayed his emotion ...
... brought the news that the national poll had closed with a majority of forty for the Liberals . ' Too small , too small , ' said Mr. Gladstone , shaking his head sadly and speaking in low grave voice that betrayed his emotion ...
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... brought to the House ? The Whips said he must , and so he was . He came in a Bath chair , and I never forget the look on his face , his eyes glassy and upturned , his jaws stiff . We , a lot of young Conservatives , clustered round the ...
... brought to the House ? The Whips said he must , and so he was . He came in a Bath chair , and I never forget the look on his face , his eyes glassy and upturned , his jaws stiff . We , a lot of young Conservatives , clustered round the ...
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... brought master or mistress home or convoyed a guest . Inside hideous light - absorbing flock papers prevail . One gets a sight rare in these days of the gloominess amid which our grandfathers dwelt . The dinner - table was as loveless ...
... brought master or mistress home or convoyed a guest . Inside hideous light - absorbing flock papers prevail . One gets a sight rare in these days of the gloominess amid which our grandfathers dwelt . The dinner - table was as loveless ...
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... brought against him , he was content to make a slow flanking movement , and the Boers were left undisturbed in their victory . Some months later , Colvile , in command of the Highland Brigade , was moving towards Heilbron . A force of ...
... brought against him , he was content to make a slow flanking movement , and the Boers were left undisturbed in their victory . Some months later , Colvile , in command of the Highland Brigade , was moving towards Heilbron . A force of ...
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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.