The Cornhill MagazineWilliam Makepeace Thackeray Smith, Elder and Company, 1909 |
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... door of the Jollity Theatre , or in some obscure country parsonage . Thanks to Lady Matilda's teaching , never didactic , never obtrusive , her boy had grasped the great truth that sweet , rich , charming girls may be found in dozens ...
... door of the Jollity Theatre , or in some obscure country parsonage . Thanks to Lady Matilda's teaching , never didactic , never obtrusive , her boy had grasped the great truth that sweet , rich , charming girls may be found in dozens ...
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... door . " He was dead , " Mr. Gladstone added emphatically , " except that he had just a little breath left in him . The question was , could he be brought to the House ? The Whips said he must , and so he was . He came in a Bath chair ...
... door . " He was dead , " Mr. Gladstone added emphatically , " except that he had just a little breath left in him . The question was , could he be brought to the House ? The Whips said he must , and so he was . He came in a Bath chair ...
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... door of the division lobby hooted and jeered him as he passed . Another improvement he noted in this connexion is in respect of political cartoons . In his early days , when an artist was engaged to produce a caricature , he nearly ...
... door of the division lobby hooted and jeered him as he passed . Another improvement he noted in this connexion is in respect of political cartoons . In his early days , when an artist was engaged to produce a caricature , he nearly ...
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... door to the place where Colvile's balloon was inflated with gas , and had a most successful trip . A hard worker , a born soldier , a man of dauntless courage , his promotion was steady . The outbreak of the Boer War found him at ...
... door to the place where Colvile's balloon was inflated with gas , and had a most successful trip . A hard worker , a born soldier , a man of dauntless courage , his promotion was steady . The outbreak of the Boer War found him at ...
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... door I found the sermon going on , and a very dandified and vapourish Fellow of my College in the pulpit . With much sign of woe he was exclaiming , Alas , my brethren ; alas ! and thrice alas ! ' I was so touched that I did not sample ...
... door I found the sermon going on , and a very dandified and vapourish Fellow of my College in the pulpit . With much sign of woe he was exclaiming , Alas , my brethren ; alas ! and thrice alas ! ' I was so touched that I did not sample ...
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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.