The Cornhill MagazineWilliam Makepeace Thackeray Smith, Elder, 1898 |
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... laughing isle . Fired with new hopes the exulting peasant sees The Gaclic streamer woo the British breeze ; While , pleased to watch its undulating charms , The smiling infant spreads his little arms . Ye sylphs of death ! on demon ...
... laughing isle . Fired with new hopes the exulting peasant sees The Gaclic streamer woo the British breeze ; While , pleased to watch its undulating charms , The smiling infant spreads his little arms . Ye sylphs of death ! on demon ...
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... laughed out of court . It may be doubted whether Canning's wit was a boon to him in his political career . The British public does not really like its leaders to be witty ; it always suspects them of laughing at it in their sleeve . It ...
... laughed out of court . It may be doubted whether Canning's wit was a boon to him in his political career . The British public does not really like its leaders to be witty ; it always suspects them of laughing at it in their sleeve . It ...
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... laugh was heard , and a repetition of Sir Augustus's impressive Very true . ' Mr. Biggleswade , however , lost none of his jaunty airiness of demeanour . He fixed his Oxbridge smile for a moment upon Mrs. Vivian , and admitted , as he ...
... laugh was heard , and a repetition of Sir Augustus's impressive Very true . ' Mr. Biggleswade , however , lost none of his jaunty airiness of demeanour . He fixed his Oxbridge smile for a moment upon Mrs. Vivian , and admitted , as he ...
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... laughter for a while , although it was enough to re- mind one of Falstaff's ragged regiment . And even had I felt in- clined to smile , one sight of the faces of that miserable company would have effectually quenched any such desire ...
... laughter for a while , although it was enough to re- mind one of Falstaff's ragged regiment . And even had I felt in- clined to smile , one sight of the faces of that miserable company would have effectually quenched any such desire ...
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... laughed , but it was no laughing matter . I soon found she had been hurt - some- thing wrong in her ankle . The river was not deep , but full of rock and stone , and that was how she became lame . ' Tony Blight paused a moment , and he ...
... laughed , but it was no laughing matter . I soon found she had been hurt - some- thing wrong in her ankle . The river was not deep , but full of rock and stone , and that was how she became lame . ' Tony Blight paused a moment , and he ...
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Página 650 - A cherub's face, a reptile all the rest; Beauty that shocks you, parts that none will trust, Wit that can creep, and pride that licks the dust.
Página 146 - 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...
Página 557 - A fiery soul, which, working out its way, Fretted the pigmy body to decay, And o'er-informed the tenement of clay. A daring pilot in extremity; Pleased with the danger, when the waves went high He sought the storms; but, for a calm unfit, Would steer too nigh the sands to boast his wit.
Página 217 - 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 577 - King James did rushing come. Scarce could they hear, or see their foes, Until at weapon-point they close. They close in clouds of smoke and dust, With sword-sway and with lance's thrust; And such a yell was there Of sudden and portentous birth, As if men fought upon the earth And fiends in upper air; O life and death were in the shout, Recoil and rally, charge and rout, And triumph and despair.
Página 721 - 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 654 - 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 448 - Came through the jaws of death, Back from the mouth of hell, All that was left of them— Left of Six Hundred. When can their glory fade? Oh! the wild charge they made! All the world wondered. Honour the charge they made! Honour the Light Brigade, — Noble Six Hundred!