The Cornhill Magazine, Volumen36William Makepeace Thackeray Smith, Elder, 1877 |
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... give one evening out of a dozen to her ! But Cara , as the reader knows , had not the consolation with which Edward credited her . Happiness of all kinds she thought had deserted her for ever . There was not even a fire to keep her ...
... give one evening out of a dozen to her ! But Cara , as the reader knows , had not the consolation with which Edward credited her . Happiness of all kinds she thought had deserted her for ever . There was not even a fire to keep her ...
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... give altogether another character to the affair . This was what Mr. Beresford at last made up his mind to ascertain boldly one way or another . It was about the same time as Oswald , approaching the railway junction , was turning over ...
... give altogether another character to the affair . This was what Mr. Beresford at last made up his mind to ascertain boldly one way or another . It was about the same time as Oswald , approaching the railway junction , was turning over ...
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... give them time . " Mrs. Meredith did not say anything . She shook her head , but the faint smile on her face remained . There was nothing tragical yet about either one or the other . Mr. Beresford was less calm than usual . He sat down ...
... give them time . " Mrs. Meredith did not say anything . She shook her head , but the faint smile on her face remained . There was nothing tragical yet about either one or the other . Mr. Beresford was less calm than usual . He sat down ...
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... give up everything - and you call that a fine career . " " Men do , if women don't , " said the young man , not looking at her . His heart was so wrung and sore that he could not keep the gloom off his face . " And you don't care what ...
... give up everything - and you call that a fine career . " " Men do , if women don't , " said the young man , not looking at her . His heart was so wrung and sore that he could not keep the gloom off his face . " And you don't care what ...
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... give up what , though it be not good , is yet fit . There were many degrees among Philistines in the old time ; all were not men of six fingers and six toes , monsters , of no proportion , bawling out their hatred of the Hebrews . So ...
... give up what , though it be not good , is yet fit . There were many degrees among Philistines in the old time ; all were not men of six fingers and six toes , monsters , of no proportion , bawling out their hatred of the Hebrews . So ...
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Página 708 - Let us not be found, when our Master calls us, stripping the lace off our waistcoats, but the spirit of contention from our souls and tongues. Alas ! sir, a man who cannot get to heaven in a green coat will not find his way thither the sooner in a grey one.
Página 81 - I still remember that the spinning of a top is a case of Kinetic Stability. I still remember that Emphyteusis is not a disease, nor Stillicide a crime. But though I would not willingly part with such scraps of science, I do not set the same store by them...
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Página 356 - Is life, then, a dream and delusion, and where shall the dreamer awake? Is the world seen like shadows on water, and what if the mirror break? Shall it pass as a camp that is struck, as a tent that is gathered and gone From the sands that were lamp-lit at eve, and at morning are level and lone?
Página 81 - Balzac, and turns out yearly many inglorious masters in the Science of the Aspects of Life. Suffice it to say this : if a lad does not learn in the streets, it is because he has no faculty of learning. Nor is the truant always in the streets, for if he prefers, he may go out by the gardened suburbs into the country.
Página 444 - To endure the frosts of danger, nay, of death, To be thought worthy the triumphal wreath By glorious undertakings, may deserve Reward or favour from the commonwealth ; Actors may put in for as large a share As all the sects of the philosophers : They with cold precepts (perhaps seldom read) Deliver ' what an honourable thing The active virtue is ; but does that fire The blood, or swell the veins with emulation, To be both good and great, equal to that Which is presented on our theatres ? Let a good...
Página 423 - They have likewise discovered two lesser stars, or satellites, which revolve about Mars ; whereof the innermost is distant from the centre of the primary planet exactly three of his diameters, and the outermost, five ; the former revolves in the space of ten hours, and the latter in twenty-one and a half...
Página 349 - Sweet-beam'd, and shedding oft through lucid clouds A pleasing calm; while broad, and brown, below Extensive harvests hang the heavy head. Rich, silent, deep, they stand; -for not a gale Rolls its light billows o'er the bending plain : A calm of plenty ! till the ruffled air Falls from its poise, and gives the breeze to blow. Rent is the fleecy mantle of the sky ; The clouds fly different; and the sudden sun By fits effulgent gilds th' illumin'd field, And black by fits the shadows sweep along.
Página 85 - ... fellows for a moment, I beseech you. He sows hurry and reaps indigestion ; he puts a vast deal of activity out to interest, and receives a large measure of nervous derangement in return. Either he absents himself entirely from all fellowship, and lives a recluse in a garret, with carpet slippers and a leaden inkpot; or he comes among people swiftly and bitterly, in a contraction of his whole nervous system, to discharge some temper before he returns to work. I do not care how much or how well...