The Cornhill Magazine, Volume 78William Makepeace Thackeray Smith, Elder and Company, 1898 |
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... honour . ' These lines were indeed applicable the state of man in general , but of no man more than himself ; they appeared to him pointed and personal and little less than prophetic ; they were always present to his mind ; he would ...
... honour . ' These lines were indeed applicable the state of man in general , but of no man more than himself ; they appeared to him pointed and personal and little less than prophetic ; they were always present to his mind ; he would ...
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... honour to drink his health , he should propose , Merlin , the late Minister of Justice , and Trial by Jury ! ' Mr. Erskine here concluded a speech which had occupied the attention and excited the applause of his audience during the ...
... honour to drink his health , he should propose , Merlin , the late Minister of Justice , and Trial by Jury ! ' Mr. Erskine here concluded a speech which had occupied the attention and excited the applause of his audience during the ...
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... Honour , ' when I am next at the parsonage , some profitable matter for Sir Augustus and the Honourable Order . I note your family news , and perceive that my training in the political department is not to lie rusty . Meanwhile , I ...
... Honour , ' when I am next at the parsonage , some profitable matter for Sir Augustus and the Honourable Order . I note your family news , and perceive that my training in the political department is not to lie rusty . Meanwhile , I ...
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... honour , his gentle manners , and high courage , and I wonder if he is the Rajput Colonel Newcome - Colonel Newcome with a prouder ancestry behind him . I wish you would make a book of Indian heroes for the children's reading by and by ...
... honour , his gentle manners , and high courage , and I wonder if he is the Rajput Colonel Newcome - Colonel Newcome with a prouder ancestry behind him . I wish you would make a book of Indian heroes for the children's reading by and by ...
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... Honour ' supplies intelligence meet for Sir Augustus , who , for some reason best known to himself , has developed a tendency to visit us incessantly . He seems keen , also , that we should go to have tea at the Heralds ' Office with ...
... Honour ' supplies intelligence meet for Sir Augustus , who , for some reason best known to himself , has developed a tendency to visit us incessantly . He seems keen , also , that we should go to have tea at the Heralds ' Office with ...
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Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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...
Página 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.
Página 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 .'