The Cornhill MagazineWilliam Makepeace Thackeray Smith, Elder and Company, 1906 |
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... boy as a soldier in the revolutionary army of 1688 , became a prolific dramatist and actor , and ended by becoming Poet Laureate in 1730 , and was the subject of a lampoon said to have been written by Pope : In merry old England it once ...
... boy as a soldier in the revolutionary army of 1688 , became a prolific dramatist and actor , and ended by becoming Poet Laureate in 1730 , and was the subject of a lampoon said to have been written by Pope : In merry old England it once ...
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... Boy , ' said the Judge , ' I have seen your face before . ' The prisoner began to whimper a denial , and up got the gaoler . ' Please , my Lord , the boy has never been in trouble himself , but his mother is well known in Queer Street ...
... Boy , ' said the Judge , ' I have seen your face before . ' The prisoner began to whimper a denial , and up got the gaoler . ' Please , my Lord , the boy has never been in trouble himself , but his mother is well known in Queer Street ...
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... boy and Stephen the bad boy of the village , that the reasons for a certain jealousy of Tim on the part of Stephen were very intelligible . " Three days later Tim came to the cottage again , and Sarah received him so coldly that he was ...
... boy and Stephen the bad boy of the village , that the reasons for a certain jealousy of Tim on the part of Stephen were very intelligible . " Three days later Tim came to the cottage again , and Sarah received him so coldly that he was ...
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... boys , Brennan on the Moor . Bold and undaunted stood Young Brennan on the Moor . One day , as Billy Brennan From the mountains came down , He met the Mayor of Limerick One mile outside the town . The Mayor , he knew his features ...
... boys , Brennan on the Moor . Bold and undaunted stood Young Brennan on the Moor . One day , as Billy Brennan From the mountains came down , He met the Mayor of Limerick One mile outside the town . The Mayor , he knew his features ...
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... boy ? " he asked . The boy pointed to his crooked limb for answer . Go and play , " said Father O'Brien ; " go and play . " That was all , but the little cripple jumped from the ditch , ran into the field , and joined the play , using ...
... boy ? " he asked . The boy pointed to his crooked limb for answer . Go and play , " said Father O'Brien ; " go and play . " That was all , but the little cripple jumped from the ditch , ran into the field , and joined the play , using ...
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Page 546 - Oh that I knew where I might find him ! that I might come even to his seat ! I would order my cause before him, and fill my mouth with arguments.
Page 411 - But never either found another To free the hollow heart from paining — They stood aloof, the scars remaining, Like cliffs which had been rent asunder; A dreary sea now flows between;— But neither heat, nor frost, nor thunder, Shall wholly do away, I ween, The marks of that which once hath been.
Page 316 - The schoolboy whips his taxed top; the beardless youth manages his taxed horse, with a taxed bridle, on a taxed road ; and the dying Englishman, pouring his medicine, which has paid...
Page 728 - Come, my beloved, let us go forth into the field ; Let us lodge in the villages. Let us get up early to the vineyards; Let us see if the vine flourish, whether the tender grape appear, And the pomegranates bud forth: There will I give thee my loves.
Page 42 - Why should Honesty fly to some safer retreat, From attorneys and barges, od rot 'em ? For the lawyers are just at the top of the street, And the barges are just at the bottom.
Page 318 - A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall. Speak what you think now in hard words, and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict everything you said today. "Ah, so you shall be sure to be misunderstood.
Page 41 - Mr. Leach Made a speech, Angry, neat, but wrong : Mr. Hart, On the other part, Was heavy, dull, and long; Mr. Parker Made the case darker, Which was dark enough without : Mr. Cooke Cited his book, And the Chancellor said — I doubt.
Page 319 - One who never turned his back but marched breast forward, Never doubted clouds would break, Never dreamed, though right were worsted, wrong would triumph, Held we fall to rise, are baffled to fight better, Sleep to wake.
Page 318 - To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men, — that is genius.
Page 737 - And pictures in our eyes to get Was all our propagation. As 'twixt two equal armies fate Suspends uncertain victory, Our souls (which to advance their state Were gone out) hung 'twixt her and me. And whilst our souls negotiate there, We like sepulchral statues lay; All day the same our postures were, And we said nothing all the day.