The Cornhill MagazineWilliam Makepeace Thackeray Smith, Elder and Company, 1909 |
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... speak , was always there . He could think of her comfortably as his for the asking . One of these days they were going to be as happy as larks . Part of the charm- and even Esther would have admitted this - bloomed in the fact that they ...
... speak , was always there . He could think of her comfortably as his for the asking . One of these days they were going to be as happy as larks . Part of the charm- and even Esther would have admitted this - bloomed in the fact that they ...
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... speaking . Then she said gently : ' Don't think me impertinent , but surely you have some rela- tions ? " Esther shook her head . My father's cousins are furious with him ; I couldn't stand their pity or their patronage . ' ' And your ...
... speaking . Then she said gently : ' Don't think me impertinent , but surely you have some rela- tions ? " Esther shook her head . My father's cousins are furious with him ; I couldn't stand their pity or their patronage . ' ' And your ...
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... speak with entire frankness and couldn't ! 6 Habit had made her tongue - tied . Alone in her room , Esther underwent a reaction . She had confronted Lady Matilda with a derisive smile , but she saw herself through tears - tears which ...
... speak with entire frankness and couldn't ! 6 Habit had made her tongue - tied . Alone in her room , Esther underwent a reaction . She had confronted Lady Matilda with a derisive smile , but she saw herself through tears - tears which ...
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... speaking , he possessed himself of her hand . Esther knew what was coming , and rejoiced . Harry was about to ... speak thrilled upon her sweet lips . So Cophetua kissed his beggar - maid , and forgot - let us hope - that he was a ...
... speaking , he possessed himself of her hand . Esther knew what was coming , and rejoiced . Harry was about to ... speak thrilled upon her sweet lips . So Cophetua kissed his beggar - maid , and forgot - let us hope - that he was a ...
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... speaking more parti- cularly of " Punch " ) a total absence of vulgarity , and a fairer treat- ment , which made this department of warfare always pleasing . Here is note of another dinner - party , this time with Mr. Glad- stone as the ...
... speaking more parti- cularly of " Punch " ) a total absence of vulgarity , and a fairer treat- ment , which made this department of warfare always pleasing . Here is note of another dinner - party , this time with Mr. Glad- stone as the ...
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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.