The Cornhill Magazine, Volume 17William Makepeace Thackeray Smith, Elder., 1904 |
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... Millie Stretton whose fortunes were touched by Tony's absence . Warrisden , whom Stretton had met but the once on board the City of Bristol , was no less affected . On a day of that summer , during which Tony camped far away on the edge ...
... Millie Stretton whose fortunes were touched by Tony's absence . Warrisden , whom Stretton had met but the once on board the City of Bristol , was no less affected . On a day of that summer , during which Tony camped far away on the edge ...
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... Millie . Only lately a careless remark of Millie's with reference to that State had assured her of this . And if the letters still came , though Callon had been away a year , it followed that they were answered . ' In that case you ...
... Millie . Only lately a careless remark of Millie's with reference to that State had assured her of this . And if the letters still came , though Callon had been away a year , it followed that they were answered . ' In that case you ...
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... Millie Stretton , ' said Pamela . ' She is staying here ? ' cried Warrisden . ' Yes , ' replied Pamela . Before she comes I want to ask you to do something for me . Oh , it is quite a small thing . But I should like you very much to do ...
... Millie Stretton , ' said Pamela . ' She is staying here ? ' cried Warrisden . ' Yes , ' replied Pamela . Before she comes I want to ask you to do something for me . Oh , it is quite a small thing . But I should like you very much to do ...
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... Millie Stretton walked with Warrisden through the hall to the front door . Upon the hall - table letters were lying . Pamela glanced at them as she passed , and caught one up rather suddenly . Then she looked at Warrisden , and there ...
... Millie Stretton walked with Warrisden through the hall to the front door . Upon the hall - table letters were lying . Pamela glanced at them as she passed , and caught one up rather suddenly . Then she looked at Warrisden , and there ...
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... Millie Stretton and himself had vanished . If only he had come yesterday , or the day before ! He sat down by the window and gazed out upon the street . A group of men and women were gathered in the roadway looking up at the windows and ...
... Millie Stretton and himself had vanished . If only he had come yesterday , or the day before ! He sat down by the window and gazed out upon the street . A group of men and women were gathered in the roadway looking up at the windows and ...
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A. E. W. MASON asked Aspasia Aunt beautiful Blücher budget Bulgarian called Callon Captain cried dear dinner door EGERTON CASTLE England English eyes face flowers France French garden girl Gowrie hand head heard heart Hirado hors d'œuvre hour income Iyéyasu Japan Jeanne Jeff Kastoria King Kirk knew Lady Gerardine less letter light living looked Louis XV Madame Madame de Pompadour Major Bethune Marie Antoinette matter Millie Stretton morning Napoléon never night once Pamela Paris passed perhaps poor Queen replied Roquebrune Rosamond rose round Runkle Russia Ruthven seemed sent servant Shōgun Sir Arthur Sir Patrick smile Stanley stood story street Stretton sure tell things thought told Tony took town turned village voice Voltaire walked Warrisden week wife window words write XVII.-NO young
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Página 617 - Tis pleasant, through the loopholes of retreat, To peep at such a world ; to see the stir Of the great Babel, and not feel the crowd ; To hear the roar she sends through all her gates At a safe distance, where the dying sound Falls a soft murmur on the uninjured ear.
Página 169 - No author, without a trial, can conceive of the difficulty of writing a romance about a country where there is no shadow, no antiquity, no mystery, no picturesque and gloomy wrong, nor anything but a commonplace prosperity, in broad and simple daylight, as is happily the case with my dear native land.
Página 738 - MELANCHOLY Bird, a winter's day Thou standest by the margin of the pool, And, taught by God, dost thy whole being school To Patience, which all evil can allay. God has appointed thee the Fish thy prey; And given thyself a lesson to the Fool Unthrifty, to submit to moral rule, And his unthinking course by thee to weigh. There need not schools, nor the Professor's chair, Though these be good, true wisdom to impart; He, who has not enough for these to spare Of time, or gold, may yet amend his heart,...
Página 405 - ... he was clearly of opinion, that the persons were bewitched; and said, that in Denmark there had been lately a great discovery of witches, who used the very same way of afflicting persons, by conveying pins into them, and crooked as these pins were, with needles and nails. And his opinion was, that the devil in such cases did work upon the bodies of men and women, upon a natural foundation, (that is) to stir up, and excite such humours superabounding in their bodies to a great excess...
Página 405 - ... did in an extraordinary manner afflict them with such distempers as their bodies were most subject to, as particularly appeared in these children; for he conceived, that these swooning fits were natural, and nothing else but...
Página 739 - His blows were not undecided and ineffectual — lumbering like Mr. Wordsworth's epic poetry, nor wavering like Mr. Coleridge's lyric prose, nor short of the mark like Mr. Brougham's speeches, nor wide of it like Mr. Canning's wit, nor foul like the Quarterly, nor let balls like the Edinburgh Review.
Página 614 - Camp and the greyhounds, they had at all times free access to his study: he never considered their tattle as any disturbance; they went and came as pleased their fancy; he was always ready to answer their questions; and when they, unconscious how he was engaged, entreated him to lay down his pen and tell them a story, he would take them on his knee, repeat a ballad or a legend, kiss them, and set them down again to their marbles or ninepins, and resume his labour as if refreshed by the interruption....
Página 612 - My mamma sends her compliments, and begs the favour of you to lend her a chamber-pot full of coals.
Página 623 - Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds ought and six, result misery.
Página 516 - the father of chemistry and the uncle of the Earl of Cork...