The Cornhill MagazineWilliam Makepeace Thackeray Smith, Elder and Company, 1909 |
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... known what George was like before she married him a good , steady , plodding fellow , with a heart of solid gold , not to mention a dessert service . But Doll had come back from her honeymoon looking as blue as the sodolite from Canada ...
... known what George was like before she married him a good , steady , plodding fellow , with a heart of solid gold , not to mention a dessert service . But Doll had come back from her honeymoon looking as blue as the sodolite from Canada ...
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... known . Esther had nothing but her frocks and her trinkets . Harry could mark time no longer , and that odious friend of his in the Foreign Office was a sentimentalist , a love - and - a - cottage simpleton ! Lady Matilda took a last ...
... known . Esther had nothing but her frocks and her trinkets . Harry could mark time no longer , and that odious friend of his in the Foreign Office was a sentimentalist , a love - and - a - cottage simpleton ! Lady Matilda took a last ...
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... known , ' she said regretfully , ' you are the nicest and the pluckiest . ' 6 ' Plucky ? ' said Esther , with a twist of her lip . Well , that remains to be seen . ' When Lady Matilda went away , Esther returned to her sitting- room ...
... known , ' she said regretfully , ' you are the nicest and the pluckiest . ' 6 ' Plucky ? ' said Esther , with a twist of her lip . Well , that remains to be seen . ' When Lady Matilda went away , Esther returned to her sitting- room ...
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... known that there would be , on one side or the other , a majority of one . There was a Conservative member almost at death's door . " He was dead , " Mr. Gladstone added emphatically , " except that he had just a little breath left in ...
... known that there would be , on one side or the other , a majority of one . There was a Conservative member almost at death's door . " He was dead , " Mr. Gladstone added emphatically , " except that he had just a little breath left in ...
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... known face , stopped to regard him . There's Gladstone ! ' they said to each other , and lifted their hats in salutation . " There was passing through the crowded streets not the strenuous statesman round whose banner for fifty years ...
... known face , stopped to regard him . There's Gladstone ! ' they said to each other , and lifted their hats in salutation . " There was passing through the crowded streets not the strenuous statesman round whose banner for fifty years ...
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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.