The Cornhill MagazineWilliam Makepeace Thackeray Smith, Elder and Company, 1909 |
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... true that his uncle continued his allowance , but Harry felt vaguely that he was one of the unlucky brigade . Camber Castle and forty thousand a year would have suited him down to the ground , and - if he said it himself - the world ...
... true that his uncle continued his allowance , but Harry felt vaguely that he was one of the unlucky brigade . Camber Castle and forty thousand a year would have suited him down to the ground , and - if he said it himself - the world ...
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... true love behind him . And lo ! his true love reversed their parts . She , single - handed , proposed to engage in a fight à outrance against poverty . Can we blame him that he forgot his manners ? Next day Esther happened to call upon ...
... true love behind him . And lo ! his true love reversed their parts . She , single - handed , proposed to engage in a fight à outrance against poverty . Can we blame him that he forgot his manners ? Next day Esther happened to call upon ...
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... true . " ' What were the other two gifts lacking he did not say . This forgetfulness of faces he evidently deeply deplored , probably recognising in it the occasion of embarrassment . ' He talked a good deal about old times in the House ...
... true . " ' What were the other two gifts lacking he did not say . This forgetfulness of faces he evidently deeply deplored , probably recognising in it the occasion of embarrassment . ' He talked a good deal about old times in the House ...
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... true value , and left D.N. ' occupying absolutely alone its place of honour . I hope my account is intelligible . I remain faithfully yours , W. E. GLADSTONE . A page of Toby , M.P.'s Diary appearing in Punch SIXTY YEARS IN THE ...
... true value , and left D.N. ' occupying absolutely alone its place of honour . I hope my account is intelligible . I remain faithfully yours , W. E. GLADSTONE . A page of Toby , M.P.'s Diary appearing in Punch SIXTY YEARS IN THE ...
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... true faith and practice , I am proud of the fact . It is not worth taking notice of , and please don't correct or alter anything . But if you see me on another occasion with my hat on , remember it is high principle and not slackness ...
... true faith and practice , I am proud of the fact . It is not worth taking notice of , and please don't correct or alter anything . But if you see me on another occasion with my hat on , remember it is high principle and not slackness ...
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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!
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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.