The Cornhill Magazine, Volume 78William Makepeace Thackeray Smith, Elder and Company, 1898 |
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Página 92
... thought becomes act on the spot . These behave themselves as they might in one of Hoffmann's fantastic tales . But , unfortunately , he chances upon the Land of Birds , who , as Aristophanes previously reported , scorn men even more ...
... thought becomes act on the spot . These behave themselves as they might in one of Hoffmann's fantastic tales . But , unfortunately , he chances upon the Land of Birds , who , as Aristophanes previously reported , scorn men even more ...
Página 100
... thought of his great name and his mysterious and astonishing successes overpowered her , reason and instinct effected à rapid compromise . His specialised acumen , she said to herself , had laid hold of some passing accidental symptom ...
... thought of his great name and his mysterious and astonishing successes overpowered her , reason and instinct effected à rapid compromise . His specialised acumen , she said to herself , had laid hold of some passing accidental symptom ...
Página 101
... thought she would give up her five or six weeks in the shires for that season . After all , golf suited her better — and was not dangerous . In fact , she could drive as good a ball — and that in days when golf was not played by every ...
... thought she would give up her five or six weeks in the shires for that season . After all , golf suited her better — and was not dangerous . In fact , she could drive as good a ball — and that in days when golf was not played by every ...
Página 102
... thought to herself , was what it meant . . People might be cured now and then in a sudden miraculous manner , but they did not usually die that way . They became ill first ... as she had become ill . . from neglecting some simple ...
... thought to herself , was what it meant . . People might be cured now and then in a sudden miraculous manner , but they did not usually die that way . They became ill first ... as she had become ill . . from neglecting some simple ...
Página 99
... thought of his great name and his mysterious and astonishing successes overpowered her , reason and instinct effected a rapid compromise . His specialised acumen , she said to herself , had laid hold of some passing accidental symptom ...
... thought of his great name and his mysterious and astonishing successes overpowered her , reason and instinct effected a rapid compromise . His specialised acumen , she said to herself , had laid hold of some passing accidental symptom ...
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The Cornhill Magazine, Volumes 9-10;Volume 83;Volume 1901 William Makepeace Thackeray Visualização integral - 1901 |
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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 .'