The Cornhill MagazineWilliam Makepeace Thackeray Smith, Elder and Company, 1906 |
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... stand sentry till daybreak . Nat and I protested against this , and offered ourselves ; but he cut us short . He had his reasons , he said . It must have been two or even three hours later that I awoke at the touch of his hand on my ...
... stand sentry till daybreak . Nat and I protested against this , and offered ourselves ; but he cut us short . He had his reasons , he said . It must have been two or even three hours later that I awoke at the touch of his hand on my ...
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... stands in its worst peril until the hour of success ; then too often men turn her sword against her . So these men of Lacedæmon , coming to an island where the rule of Genoa was a scourge to all except them- selves , in gratitude , or ...
... stands in its worst peril until the hour of success ; then too often men turn her sword against her . So these men of Lacedæmon , coming to an island where the rule of Genoa was a scourge to all except them- selves , in gratitude , or ...
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... stand sentry while you and Master Prosper take what sleep you may . ' ' I don't know that I can trust you , ' said my father . " ' Twas a careless act , I'll allow . But I've a - been your servant , Sir John , for twenty - two year come ...
... stand sentry while you and Master Prosper take what sleep you may . ' ' I don't know that I can trust you , ' said my father . " ' Twas a careless act , I'll allow . But I've a - been your servant , Sir John , for twenty - two year come ...
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... stand of muskets with me , and to leave it unguarded would be the starkest folly . Also I had sworn to myself to keep watch on the gateway towards the forest , and this resolution must obviously be broken if I explored the church . I ...
... stand of muskets with me , and to leave it unguarded would be the starkest folly . Also I had sworn to myself to keep watch on the gateway towards the forest , and this resolution must obviously be broken if I explored the church . I ...
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... standing at the door , and reported what they had seen to that ' worldly , selfish , graceless , thankless , religionless old woman , ' Miss Crawley . It was in Hamilton Gardens that we first made acquaintance with Ethel Newcome , as a ...
... standing at the door , and reported what they had seen to that ' worldly , selfish , graceless , thankless , religionless old woman , ' Miss Crawley . It was in Hamilton Gardens that we first made acquaintance with Ethel Newcome , as a ...
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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.