The Cornhill Magazine, Volume 28George Smith, William Makepeace Thackeray Smith, Elder and Company, 1873 - Electronic journals |
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... HAND . Now TELL ME- -YES OR NO " THE LAD SAT WITH HIS HEAD BOWED UPON HIS HANDS ... " OH , " SHE CRIED , GOING DOWN ... HAND SHE HELD OUT TO HIM SHE TOOK HER BOY'S SHAPELY HAND IN HER OWN " GOOD AFTERNOON , MISS BRANDT , -AND YOU , MY ...
... HAND . Now TELL ME- -YES OR NO " THE LAD SAT WITH HIS HEAD BOWED UPON HIS HANDS ... " OH , " SHE CRIED , GOING DOWN ... HAND SHE HELD OUT TO HIM SHE TOOK HER BOY'S SHAPELY HAND IN HER OWN " GOOD AFTERNOON , MISS BRANDT , -AND YOU , MY ...
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... hands over those bright eyes of his . " Why , what's o'clock ? I am afraid I have kept you out of bed to an ... hand . " Madge , Madge ! " he said . " You little bolter , what is the matter ? " And , for the first time , the ...
... hands over those bright eyes of his . " Why , what's o'clock ? I am afraid I have kept you out of bed to an ... hand . " Madge , Madge ! " he said . " You little bolter , what is the matter ? " And , for the first time , the ...
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... hand to a kingdom where there was no labour and no sorrow . She wondered whether her mother was an angel and talked ... hands in front of her and wailed : " Mawther , mawther ! tell him it was none moy fault ! He knows it wasn't " -then ...
... hand to a kingdom where there was no labour and no sorrow . She wondered whether her mother was an angel and talked ... hands in front of her and wailed : " Mawther , mawther ! tell him it was none moy fault ! He knows it wasn't " -then ...
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... hand took hers and drew her to the altar where she had seen brides led , and where now awaited her with a beam of ... hands to her aching forehead , to recollect where she was , and why she had come there . All she evoked was a dull ...
... hand took hers and drew her to the altar where she had seen brides led , and where now awaited her with a beam of ... hands to her aching forehead , to recollect where she was , and why she had come there . All she evoked was a dull ...
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... hand , and he would only have set it down , to take it up again after the shock was over . The blacksmith , who had ... hands on her knees , VOL . XXVIII . - No . 163 . and wail over them . If she heard a step YOUNG BROWN . 25.
... hand , and he would only have set it down , to take it up again after the shock was over . The blacksmith , who had ... hands on her knees , VOL . XXVIII . - No . 163 . and wail over them . If she heard a step YOUNG BROWN . 25.
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Page 67 - I'm well aware, as winter changes the trees. My love for Heathcliff resembles the eternal rocks beneath: a source of little visible delight, but necessary.
Page 596 - Not fortune's worshipper, nor fashion's fool, Not lucre's madman, nor ambition's tool, Not proud, nor servile ; be one poet's praise, That, if he pleased, he pleased by manly ways...
Page 479 - The saw of their teeth without he could hear. And in at the windows, and in at the door, And through the walls by thousands they pour, And down...
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 66 - Her powerful reason would have deduced new spheres of discovery from the knowledge of the old ; and her strong, imperious will would never have been daunted by opposition or difficulty ; never have given way but with life.
Page 464 - A maiden knight — to me is given Such hope, I know not fear; I yearn to breathe the airs of heaven That often meet me here. I muse on joy that will not cease, Pure spaces clothed in living beams, Pure lilies of eternal peace, Whose odours haunt my dreams; And, stricken by an angel's hand, This mortal armour that I wear, This weight and size, this heart and eyes, Are touch'd, are turn'd to finest air. The clouds are broken in the sky, And thro' the mountain-walls A rolling organ-harmony Swells up,...
Page 90 - The sun's rays are the ultimate source of almost every motion which takes place on the surface of the earth. By its heat are produced all winds, and those disturbances in the electric equilibrium of the atmosphere which give rise to the phenomena of lightning, and probably also to those of terrestrial magnetism and the aurora.
Page 66 - Bell did not describe as one whose eye and taste alone found pleasure in the prospect; her native hills were far more to her than a spectacle; they were what she lived in, and by, as much as the wild birds, their tenants, or as the heather, their produce.
Page 70 - Though earth and man were gone, And suns and universes ceased to be, And Thou wert left alone, Every existence would exist in thee. There is not room for Death Nor atom that his might could render void : Thou — THOU art Being and Breath, And what THOU art may never be destroyed.
Page 56 - I asked the next (Emily, afterwards Ellis Bell) what I had best do with her brother Branwell, who was sometimes a naughty boy; she answered, 'Reason with him, and when he won't listen to reason, whip him.