The Cornhill MagazineWilliam Makepeace Thackeray Smith, Elder and Company, 1906 - Electronic journals |
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... living person , by a fictitious name . When she came to live five minutes away from my house he was taken several times to see her . Not long after , the happy thought occurred to him after breakfast to pay her a visit ; and though it ...
... living person , by a fictitious name . When she came to live five minutes away from my house he was taken several times to see her . Not long after , the happy thought occurred to him after breakfast to pay her a visit ; and though it ...
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... living in a country governed by custom to whom the custom is his air with which he feels himself one ; who obeys the chieftain as the interpreter of that custom , however arbitrary the interpreta- tion , and for whom to have broken the ...
... living in a country governed by custom to whom the custom is his air with which he feels himself one ; who obeys the chieftain as the interpreter of that custom , however arbitrary the interpreta- tion , and for whom to have broken the ...
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... living . Who , in those days , ever heard of supper parties after the play ? Now they are quite the fashion , and as soon as the playhouses are emptied , the performance over , people rush to the restaurant for champagne suppers . Then ...
... living . Who , in those days , ever heard of supper parties after the play ? Now they are quite the fashion , and as soon as the playhouses are emptied , the performance over , people rush to the restaurant for champagne suppers . Then ...
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... living in London and their English friends continued as cordial as ever , and it says much for the generous hospitality England extends to foreigners . That such was the case in the dark days of Fashoda , for instance , is as much to ...
... living in London and their English friends continued as cordial as ever , and it says much for the generous hospitality England extends to foreigners . That such was the case in the dark days of Fashoda , for instance , is as much to ...
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... living or the reverse . But it is not with the winds of the land and their countless local peculiarities and variations that we have to deal . The winds of the ocean , or rather the watery world - that is to say , two - thirds of the ...
... living or the reverse . But it is not with the winds of the land and their countless local peculiarities and variations that we have to deal . The winds of the ocean , or rather the watery world - that is to say , two - thirds of the ...
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Page 707 - And now in age I bud again, After so many deaths I live and write; I once more smell the dew and rain, And relish versing: O my only light, It cannot be That I am he, On whom thy tempests fell all night.
Page 615 - His father was a butcher, and I have been told heretofore by some of the neighbours that when he was a boy he exercised his father's trade, but when he killed a calf he would do it in a high style, and make a speech.
Page 781 - And it shall come to pass, that when they make a long blast with the ram's horn, and when ye hear the sound of the trumpet, all the people shall shout with a great shout ; and the wall of the city shall fall down flat, and the people shall ascend up, every man straight before him.
Page 632 - O, for my sake do you with Fortune chide, The guilty goddess of my harmful deeds, That did not better for my life provide Than public means which public manners breeds. Thence comes it that my name receives a brand, And almost thence my nature is subdued To what it works in, like the dyer's hand...
Page 627 - How would it have joyed brave Talbot, the terror of the French, to think that after he had lain two hundred years in his tomb, he should triumph again on the stage and have his bones new embalmed with the tears of ten thousand spectators at least (at several times), who, in the tragedian that represents his person, imagine they behold him fresh bleeding...
Page 595 - ... truly try the issue joined between Our Sovereign Lord the King and the prisoner at the bar, and would a true verdict give according to the evidence, so help him God!
Page 631 - William d'Avenant, who was probably very well acquainted with his affairs, I should not have ventured to have inserted ; that my lord Southampton at one time gave him a thousand pounds, to enable him to go through with a purchase which he heard he had a mind to.
Page 628 - Base minded men all three of you, if by my misery ye be not warned: for unto none of you, like me, sought those burrs to cleave: those puppets, I mean, that speak from our mouths, those antics garnished in our colours.
Page 822 - I remember the black wharves and the slips, And the sea-tides tossing free ; And Spanish sailors with bearded lips. And the beauty and mystery of the ships, And the magic of the sea. And the voice of that wayward song Is singing and saying still: "A boy's will is the wind's will, And the thoughts of youth are long, long thoughts.
Page 619 - A tedious brief scene of young Pyramus, And his love Thisbe ; very tragical mirth.