The Cornhill Magazine, Volume 78William Makepeace Thackeray Smith, Elder and Company, 1898 - English literature |
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... sure that your sister is on the high road to becoming a shocking gossip — a mauvaise langue of the worst description . I find that there are predicaments in which the good - natured thing is to be ill - natured , the charitable thing to ...
... sure that your sister is on the high road to becoming a shocking gossip — a mauvaise langue of the worst description . I find that there are predicaments in which the good - natured thing is to be ill - natured , the charitable thing to ...
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... sure to be honourably observed by Saladin , for he was never known to break his word ; but there was no such assurance on the side of the Christians , whose priests joyfully absolved every breach of faith with the infidels . The old ...
... sure to be honourably observed by Saladin , for he was never known to break his word ; but there was no such assurance on the side of the Christians , whose priests joyfully absolved every breach of faith with the infidels . The old ...
Page 88
... sure of coming death , he regretted in chief the ill employment of his days ? And did he not quote Tibullus to this effect , declaring that Tibullus had prophesied of him ? > 6 II . " It is in the two posthumous and 88 CYRANO DE BERGERAC .
... sure of coming death , he regretted in chief the ill employment of his days ? And did he not quote Tibullus to this effect , declaring that Tibullus had prophesied of him ? > 6 II . " It is in the two posthumous and 88 CYRANO DE BERGERAC .
Page 89
... sure that Cyrano's single aim was to amuse himself and others by the free play of an irresponsible imagination . At the same time , he begs to draw up a list of ancient philosophers , who had allowed the possibility of an inhabited moon ...
... sure that Cyrano's single aim was to amuse himself and others by the free play of an irresponsible imagination . At the same time , he begs to draw up a list of ancient philosophers , who had allowed the possibility of an inhabited moon ...
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... sure to be right , quite as sure as the great London physicians who sentenced half a dozen patients every year to ' six months of hopeless existence . In the second , he would never have told her had it not been for her good . Was not ...
... sure to be right , quite as sure as the great London physicians who sentenced half a dozen patients every year to ' six months of hopeless existence . In the second , he would never have told her had it not been for her good . Was not ...
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Page 89 - twas a famous victory. 'My father lived at Blenheim then, Yon little stream hard by; They burnt his dwelling to the ground, And he was forced to fly: So with his wife and child he fled, Nor had he where to rest his head.
Page 461 - In dreary hospitals of pain, The cheerless corridors, The cold and stony floors. Lo! in that house of misery A lady with a lamp I see Pass through the glimmering gloom, And flit from room to room. And slow, as in a dream of bliss, The speechless sufferer turns to kiss Her shadow, as it falls Upon the darkening walls.
Page 461 - As if a door in heaven should be Opened and then closed suddenly, The vision came and went, The light shone and was spent.
Page 14 - PRENTICES TO DEATH, AND HID THEM IN THE COAL-HOLE. For her mind Shaped strictest plans of discipline. Sage schemes ! Such as Lycurgus taught, when at the shrine Of the Orthyan goddess he bade flog The little Spartans ; such as erst chastised Our Milton, when at college.
Page 414 - It did ; and to prove that she did not keep them waiting, in a few minutes she came into the room in a loose white nightgown and shawl, her nightcap thrown off, and her hair falling upon her shoulders, her feet in slippers, tears in her eyes, but perfectly collected and dignified.
Page 137 - Where the great Sun begins his state Robed in flames and amber light, The clouds in thousand liveries dight; While the ploughman, near at hand, Whistles o'er the furrowed land, And the milkmaid singeth blithe, And the mower whets his scythe, And every shepherd tells his tale Under the hawthorn in the dale.
Page 90 - They say it was a shocking sight After the field was won; For many thousand bodies here Lay rotting in the sun; But things like that, you know, must be After a famous victory. "Great praise the Duke of Marlbro' won, And our good Prince Eugene.
Page 325 - Behn curiously sealed up, with " private and confidential " on the packet, to my gay old grand-aunt. The next time I saw her afterwards she gave me back Aphra, properly wrapped up, with nearly these words : — " Take back your bonny Mrs. Behn, and if you will take my advice, put her in the fire ; for I found it impossible to get through the very first novel. But is it not...
Page 196 - Oh! if I were Queen of France, Or still better, Pope of Rome, I would have no fighting men abroad, No weeping maids at home.
Page 18 - And clap the padlock on their mind !" — And for these reasons, thanking the gentlemen who had done him the honour to drink his health, he should propose " MERLIN the late Minister of Justice, and Trial by Jury .'