The Cornhill MagazineWilliam Makepeace Thackeray Smith, Elder and Company, 1906 - Electronic journals |
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... true , then all the impor- tance which had attached to himself as the heir to a great property , all the privileges , all the sanctity of coming wealth were gone . But with them the responsibilities of that position were gone 2 CHIPPINGE .
... true , then all the impor- tance which had attached to himself as the heir to a great property , all the privileges , all the sanctity of coming wealth were gone . But with them the responsibilities of that position were gone 2 CHIPPINGE .
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... true ? ' ' True ? ' he exclaimed hotly . True that I - that I ' Changed your mind ? ' she repeated with her face averted . ' And that was not all , sir ? ' ' What else ? ' he asked bitterly . ' Talked of me - among your friends ? ' ' A ...
... true ? ' ' True ? ' he exclaimed hotly . True that I - that I ' Changed your mind ? ' she repeated with her face averted . ' And that was not all , sir ? ' ' What else ? ' he asked bitterly . ' Talked of me - among your friends ? ' ' A ...
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... true in the case of Jane , who deserves it , but I almost hope it is not so in my case , for if it were so he has so often brought me my boots that he must long ago have discovered that the feet which wear them are of clay . Yet there ...
... true in the case of Jane , who deserves it , but I almost hope it is not so in my case , for if it were so he has so often brought me my boots that he must long ago have discovered that the feet which wear them are of clay . Yet there ...
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... true or not is quite another story . In any case , if life is supposed to be dull in England ( vide London papers ) , it is certainly not due to an excess of work and no play . The dull Sunday is not as yet a thing of the past ; but how ...
... true or not is quite another story . In any case , if life is supposed to be dull in England ( vide London papers ) , it is certainly not due to an excess of work and no play . The dull Sunday is not as yet a thing of the past ; but how ...
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... true , a man or a boy may be seen listlessly drawing along the pavement a kind of rake provided with a sheet of indiarubber , and perhaps half - a - dozen more men and boys gently patting the roadway with brooms ; but no proper effort ...
... true , a man or a boy may be seen listlessly drawing along the pavement a kind of rake provided with a sheet of indiarubber , and perhaps half - a - dozen more men and boys gently patting the roadway with brooms ; but no proper effort ...
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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.