The Cornhill Magazine, Volume 28George Smith, William Makepeace Thackeray Smith, Elder and Company, 1873 - Electronic journals |
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... sure left to his Grace was that of cleaning his china , which connoisseurs esteemed highly ; and feeding his peacocks who knew him , and perhaps sympathised with him , for they too were excluded from the state ban- quets of the sailor ...
... sure left to his Grace was that of cleaning his china , which connoisseurs esteemed highly ; and feeding his peacocks who knew him , and perhaps sympathised with him , for they too were excluded from the state ban- quets of the sailor ...
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... sure , that's yer motter . " " I don't complain , Mr. Sharpe ; though the Dook don't pay up as he might do , drat him ! The young beggar owes me a year an ' a ' alf's wages , an ' there ain't no signs of his munney , 16 YOUNG BROWN .
... sure , that's yer motter . " " I don't complain , Mr. Sharpe ; though the Dook don't pay up as he might do , drat him ! The young beggar owes me a year an ' a ' alf's wages , an ' there ain't no signs of his munney , 16 YOUNG BROWN .
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... sure to bite at that . None of them chaps can hold their nags together if they had a four - wheel furniture van behind ' em , but they're allis agog for light traps . " " I don't say no , Mr. Sharpe , and the dodge isn't so hard to try ...
... sure to bite at that . None of them chaps can hold their nags together if they had a four - wheel furniture van behind ' em , but they're allis agog for light traps . " " I don't say no , Mr. Sharpe , and the dodge isn't so hard to try ...
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... sure it was a letter from the parson , and spread a rumour that he kept a bottle or two of spirits in a snug place for private use . So she told Madge , who said , " Lauk - a - daisy me , " not knowing whence the scandal came . Who does ...
... sure it was a letter from the parson , and spread a rumour that he kept a bottle or two of spirits in a snug place for private use . So she told Madge , who said , " Lauk - a - daisy me , " not knowing whence the scandal came . Who does ...
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... sure Charlotte Brontë must have had originally a considerable endowment . She was necessarily propelled towards the painting of what was frequently harsh , and always peculiar and extraordinary . Her perceptions were keen - as will be ...
... sure Charlotte Brontë must have had originally a considerable endowment . She was necessarily propelled towards the painting of what was frequently harsh , and always peculiar and extraordinary . Her perceptions were keen - as will be ...
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Page 590 - Oh let me live my own, and die so too ! (To live and die is all I have to do) Maintain a poet's dignity and ease, And see what friends, and read what books I please: Above a patron, though I condescend Sometimes to call a minister my friend.
Page 602 - Hope humbly then; with trembling pinions soar; Wait the great teacher, Death; and God adore. What future bliss, He gives not thee to know, But gives that hope to be thy blessing now. Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never Is, but always To Be blest. The soul, uneasy and confined from home, Rests and expatiates in a life to come.
Page 603 - But by your fathers' worth if yours you rate, Count me those only who were good and great. Go ! if your ancient but ignoble blood Has crept through scoundrels ever since the flood, Go ! and pretend your family is young, Nor own your fathers have been fools so long. What can ennoble sots, or slaves, or cowards ? Alas ! not all the blood of all the Howards.
Page 70 - Earth and moon were gone And suns and universes ceased to be And thou wert left alone Every Existence would exist in thee...
Page 596 - And something previous e'en to taste— 'tis sense; Good sense, which only is the gift of Heaven, And though no science, fairly worth the seven; A light which in yourself you must perceive ; Jones and Le Notre have it not to give.
Page 598 - Know then this truth (enough for man to know) 'Virtue alone is happiness below.' The only point where human bliss stands still, And tastes the good without the fall to ill ; Where only merit constant pay receives, Is...
Page 584 - All hail, great master! grave sir, hail ! I come To answer thy best pleasure ; be't to fly, To swim, to dive into the fire, to ride On the curl'd clouds ; to thy strong bidding, task Ariel, and all his quality.
Page 598 - With lenient arts extend a mother's breath, Make languor smile, and smooth the bed of death, Explore the thought, explain the asking eye, And keep awhile one parent from the sky...
Page 172 - Oh, cease ! must hate and death return ? Cease ! must men kill and die ? Cease ! drain not to its dregs the urn Of bitter prophecy. The world is weary of the past, Oh, might it die or rest at last!
Page 97 - I scarce could brook the strain and stir That makes the barren branches loud ; And but for fear it is not so, The wild unrest that lives in woe Would dote and pore on yonder cloud That rises upward always higher, And onward drags a labouring breast, And topples round the dreary west, A looming bastion fringed with fire.