The Cornhill MagazineWilliam Makepeace Thackeray Smith, Elder and Company, 1906 |
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... fall a momentary trace of shadow that touched my nerves as with a whip . But few birds haunt the Corsican bush , and to - day even these woods and this watered valley were dumb of song . No breeze sent a shiver through the grey ilexes ...
... fall a momentary trace of shadow that touched my nerves as with a whip . But few birds haunt the Corsican bush , and to - day even these woods and this watered valley were dumb of song . No breeze sent a shiver through the grey ilexes ...
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... fall more than a third of the distance , for I saved myself by clutching at a clematis which laced its coils , thick as a man's wrist , across the cleft . But I know that the hole cannot have been less than twenty feet deep , for I had ...
... fall more than a third of the distance , for I saved myself by clutching at a clematis which laced its coils , thick as a man's wrist , across the cleft . But I know that the hole cannot have been less than twenty feet deep , for I had ...
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... fall to the lot of mankind . In Mayfair Lord Clive , whose mind was worn out and depressed after all his triumphs and achievements , died by his own hand . In 1840 , at the corner of Norfolk and Green Streets , where Lord Ribblesdale's ...
... fall to the lot of mankind . In Mayfair Lord Clive , whose mind was worn out and depressed after all his triumphs and achievements , died by his own hand . In 1840 , at the corner of Norfolk and Green Streets , where Lord Ribblesdale's ...
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... fall in before the end of most things . ' ' An ' ' ow long do ' ee suppose as Steve will stick to ' ees job then ? Baint in the like of ' ee for stick to the same job long , it baint , and Sarah won't vind as ' er's a - got a main ...
... fall in before the end of most things . ' ' An ' ' ow long do ' ee suppose as Steve will stick to ' ees job then ? Baint in the like of ' ee for stick to the same job long , it baint , and Sarah won't vind as ' er's a - got a main ...
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... falling . The last wave was when he was on the crest of the further hill . He stood a minute or two there , waving his hand in response . Then he went on over the hill . So long as there was even the top of his cap to see , Sarah stood ...
... falling . The last wave was when he was on the crest of the further hill . He stood a minute or two there , waving his hand in response . Then he went on over the hill . So long as there was even the top of his cap to see , Sarah stood ...
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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.