The Cornhill Magazine, Volum 97William Makepeace Thackeray Smith, Elder and Company, 1908 |
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... called upon to face ; ready to laugh , as jolly Peg , at the trick she had played on my lord and them all , or as Lady Wroth , the party first injured in an equi- vocal transaction , to take her proper stand of reproachful dignity . As ...
... called upon to face ; ready to laugh , as jolly Peg , at the trick she had played on my lord and them all , or as Lady Wroth , the party first injured in an equi- vocal transaction , to take her proper stand of reproachful dignity . As ...
Side 11
... called for his reckoning , for fresh horses to his curricle . Here there ensued a sudden wrangle . There were no horses , none to be had in the town to - night , for love or money . It had been as much as they could do to find them for ...
... called for his reckoning , for fresh horses to his curricle . Here there ensued a sudden wrangle . There were no horses , none to be had in the town to - night , for love or money . It had been as much as they could do to find them for ...
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... called it ' pendulacious , ' for it used to swing him from the mad heights of merriment to the opposite extreme of aching desperation . His only ambition was to be a great artist , and to be recognised as such ; sorrowfully we must ...
... called it ' pendulacious , ' for it used to swing him from the mad heights of merriment to the opposite extreme of aching desperation . His only ambition was to be a great artist , and to be recognised as such ; sorrowfully we must ...
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... called ease , a doubt that was too futile to be called scepticism , a dissatisfaction that was too inert to be called revolt . ' Do you mean , ' asked the chairman , that you have never earned any money at any trade whatever ...
... called ease , a doubt that was too futile to be called scepticism , a dissatisfaction that was too inert to be called revolt . ' Do you mean , ' asked the chairman , that you have never earned any money at any trade whatever ...
Side 49
... called together the people and told them of his going . Bring me ostrich feathers and skins , the rugs and the ponchos that you have made , and I will ride down to Santa Cruz , to the barter - place before the winter comes down upon us ...
... called together the people and told them of his going . Bring me ostrich feathers and skins , the rugs and the ponchos that you have made , and I will ride down to Santa Cruz , to the barter - place before the winter comes down upon us ...
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Side 382 - From too much love of living, From hope and fear set free, We thank with brief thanksgiving Whatever gods may be That no life lives forever; That dead men rise up never ; That even the weariest river Winds somewhere safe to sea.
Side 169 - At 9 came Lord Melbourne, whom I saw in my room, and of course quite alone, as I shall always do all my Ministers. He kissed my hand, and I then acquainted him that it had long been my intention to retain him and the rest of the present Ministry at the head of affairs, and that it could not be in better hands than his.
Side 499 - Elizabeth directed to be employed in setting to work children and persons capable of labour, but using no daily trade, and in the necessary relief of the impotent, is applied to purposes opposed to the letter, and still more to the spirit of that law, and destructive to the morals of the most numerous class, and to the welfare of all.
Side 330 - They say, he is already in the forest of Arden, and a many merry men with him ; and there they live like the old Robin Hood of England. They say, many young gentlemen flock to him every day ; and fleet the time carelessly, as they did in the golden world.
Side 175 - My Lords, I had better make a clean breast of it at once ; and I am obliged to admit that some of those who went before me had such quivers full of daughters who did not die old maids...
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Side 32 - ... snares to near-sighted people moving over Turkish floors, as they are scattered in places quite remote from the smokers, who live at the farther end of prodigiously long pipestlcks.
Side 121 - You see, my dear, I can't help it. The ideas which have taken hold of me will not let me rest; nor can I see anything else worth thinking of. How can it be otherwise, when to me society, which to many seems an orderly arrangement for allowing decent people to get through their lives creditably and with some pleasure, seems mere cannibalism; nay, worse (for there...
Side 117 - ... save that of beauty. The blackbirds were singing their loudest, the doves were cooing on the roof-ridge, the rooks in the high elm-trees beyond were garrulous among the young leaves, and the swifts wheeled whining about the gables. And the house itself was a fit guardian for all the beauty of this heart of summer.