The Cornhill Magazine, Volumen36William Makepeace Thackeray Smith, Elder, 1877 |
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... human sentiment - what are they to the big forces that move the world ? Is not a bit of chalk more interesting than all your revolutions and changes - your petty sufferings , passions , heroisms , and the like ? Mr. Beresford thought he ...
... human sentiment - what are they to the big forces that move the world ? Is not a bit of chalk more interesting than all your revolutions and changes - your petty sufferings , passions , heroisms , and the like ? Mr. Beresford thought he ...
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... human cats , his half - divine negresses , his half - Elysian haschisch ; whose senses seem almost to interpenetrate so that colours are as a perfume to him , and sounds affect him as touch ; whose pleasures seem to begin at that part ...
... human cats , his half - divine negresses , his half - Elysian haschisch ; whose senses seem almost to interpenetrate so that colours are as a perfume to him , and sounds affect him as touch ; whose pleasures seem to begin at that part ...
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... human knowledge . If we admit that he had but one supreme faculty , that of memory , others have approached him in this , and yet have made no mark in letters or affairs . Macaulay was not merely six cubits high , with a helmet of brass ...
... human knowledge . If we admit that he had but one supreme faculty , that of memory , others have approached him in this , and yet have made no mark in letters or affairs . Macaulay was not merely six cubits high , with a helmet of brass ...
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... human remains to be the delight of the world . There would be nothing to regret if we could be sure that every dog would have its day ; but useful , blundering Philistia , knowing more of common sense than beauty , beats down good with ...
... human remains to be the delight of the world . There would be nothing to regret if we could be sure that every dog would have its day ; but useful , blundering Philistia , knowing more of common sense than beauty , beats down good with ...
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... human strifes , on one hand , a sense of experience , of proportion , of the discipline of ridicule , which gives that side a right to be considered as a belligerent , even though its principles and practice may be wrong and those of ...
... human strifes , on one hand , a sense of experience , of proportion , of the discipline of ridicule , which gives that side a right to be considered as a belligerent , even though its principles and practice may be wrong and those of ...
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Página 342 - I have kissed I know not how oft. Where be your gibes now? your gambols? your songs? your flashes of merriment, that were wont to set the table on a roar? Not one now, to mock your own grinning? quite chapfallen? Now get you to my lady's chamber, and tell her, let her paint an inch thick, to this favour she must come; make her laugh at that. Prithee, Horatio, tell me one thing. Hor. What's that, my lord? Ham. Dost thou think Alexander looked o' this fashion i
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...
Página 85 - A happy man or woman is a better thing to find than a fivepound note. He or she is a radiating focus of goodwill ; and their entrance into a room is as though another candle had been lighted.
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...