The Cornhill MagazineWilliam Makepeace Thackeray Smith, Elder and Company, 1909 |
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... person to extol marriages of convenience , or to worship in public the Golden Calf ; and everybody , of course , knew that she had married for love , made a romantic affair of it , a runaway match with a blue - eyed Guardsman ! And ...
... person to extol marriages of convenience , or to worship in public the Golden Calf ; and everybody , of course , knew that she had married for love , made a romantic affair of it , a runaway match with a blue - eyed Guardsman ! And ...
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... persons with a faint rose - coloured tone . In such a room pessimism is impossible . Harry smoked one of Treherne's best and biggest cigars and drank a glass of 1808 brandy . Dorothea stared at him as if trying to pierce an exterior of ...
... persons with a faint rose - coloured tone . In such a room pessimism is impossible . Harry smoked one of Treherne's best and biggest cigars and drank a glass of 1808 brandy . Dorothea stared at him as if trying to pierce an exterior of ...
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... persons regarded , until quite lately , as rogues and vagabonds must be stigmatised as lowering and undesirable . One ... person . Esther replied that Eaton Place was too far from the Thames . When her astonished visitor demanded an ...
... persons regarded , until quite lately , as rogues and vagabonds must be stigmatised as lowering and undesirable . One ... person . Esther replied that Eaton Place was too far from the Thames . When her astonished visitor demanded an ...
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... persons who were a source of enter- tainment to her . The dolls lay in state in a mahogany tallboy , and often Esther would open the drawers and ask her old favourites how they fared . She was whimsically sensible that she had not ...
... persons who were a source of enter- tainment to her . The dolls lay in state in a mahogany tallboy , and often Esther would open the drawers and ask her old favourites how they fared . She was whimsically sensible that she had not ...
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... person to whom he went for advice , and of whom he spoke oracularly . " But , " said Mr. Gladstone , with that curious approach to a wink that sometimes varies his grave aspect , " he would never tell his name , or say where he lived ...
... person to whom he went for advice , and of whom he spoke oracularly . " But , " said Mr. Gladstone , with that curious approach to a wink that sometimes varies his grave aspect , " he would never tell his name , or say where he lived ...
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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.