The Cornhill MagazineWilliam Makepeace Thackeray Smith, Elder and Company, 1906 |
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Page 15
... looked straight into its porch . It struck me that from the shadow within it , or from one of the narrow windows , a marksman could make an easy target of me . The building had been empty over - night : no one ( it was reasonable to ...
... looked straight into its porch . It struck me that from the shadow within it , or from one of the narrow windows , a marksman could make an easy target of me . The building had been empty over - night : no one ( it was reasonable to ...
Page 50
... looked after the buttons on Mike's raiment and mended its gaps , as those gaps and buttons never had been looked after before . The ' simple ' repaid her by a kind of dog - like devotion that Sarah was quite well fitted to inspire , for ...
... looked after the buttons on Mike's raiment and mended its gaps , as those gaps and buttons never had been looked after before . The ' simple ' repaid her by a kind of dog - like devotion that Sarah was quite well fitted to inspire , for ...
Page 58
... looked red before his eyes . All the first part of their journey was uphill , for the inland district rose steeply away from the sea level till it came almost to the upper plane of the moor . After that they went by many a rise and fall ...
... looked red before his eyes . All the first part of their journey was uphill , for the inland district rose steeply away from the sea level till it came almost to the upper plane of the moor . After that they went by many a rise and fall ...
Page 60
... looked within . Already a candle had been lighted in the room , though there was still light in the sky out of doors , and the fire threw flickering beams about it . Sarah was lying on the dilapidated ' sofy ' before the fire , asleep ...
... looked within . Already a candle had been lighted in the room , though there was still light in the sky out of doors , and the fire threw flickering beams about it . Sarah was lying on the dilapidated ' sofy ' before the fire , asleep ...
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... looked and smiled and roared their applause at him . That day at the brookside he turned away as one who shoulders his burden again regretfully . ' I ought to have been at the Four Courts half an hour ago , ' he said ; ' I've a big case ...
... looked and smiled and roared their applause at him . That day at the brookside he turned away as one who shoulders his burden again regretfully . ' I ought to have been at the Four Courts half an hour ago , ' he said ; ' I've a big case ...
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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.