The Cornhill MagazineWilliam Makepeace Thackeray Smith, Elder and Company, 1921 |
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AHASUERUS appeared Arthur Conan Doyle asked Badgery Banoum Batoushka beautiful birds blackcap boys brännvin called Carlyle century Chartism Cinque Ports cossacks cricket dark death Doda door Dromon England eyes face fact father fighting fishing French Galtee Mountains girl give Gregory Dimitrievich hand Harrow head heard heart Keswick King knew laughed Leila letter live longships looked Lord Welryth Mary mind mother never night once passed Péguy perhaps Peter Mullane played Prieska Prussia replied Rory round School seemed seen Shaibah ships side Sir Oliver Lodge soldiers Sondrakov song soul Spitsbergen Spode stared stood story strange street suddenly tell thing Thomas Carlyle Thomas Spedding Thoseby thou thought Tillotson told took town Toynbee Hall Traxon Trenchard turned voice wall wonder word young
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Seite 23 - nearly approached the aspect of wilful imposture. I have seen and heard much of Cockney impudence before now ; but never expected to hear a coxcomb ask two hundred guineas for flinging a pot of paint in the public's face.' Time has shown that from the shop-keeper's point of view Sir
Seite 317 - sad queen, when a lady suggests a game of bowls, replies— ' Twill make me think the world is full of rubs, And that my fortune runs against the bias.' In the Bastard's last speech in the second act of ' King John,' ' commodity ' is called ' the bias of the world,' the bowling metaphor being elaborated at considerable length.
Seite 315 - Juliet uses the word in its literal sense, when she says of the lagging messenger— ' Had she affections and warm youthful blood, She'd be as swift in motion as a ball ; My words would bandy her to my sweet love, And his to me.
Seite 361 - two grains of wheat hid in two bushels of chaff: you shall seek all day ere you find them, and when you have them they are not worth the search.
Seite 279 - The Wood-cutter's Night Song,' which begins : ' Welcome, red and roundy sun, Dropping lowly in the west ; Now my hard day's work is done, I'm as happy as the best. ..." ' Joyful are the thoughts of home, Now I'm ready for my chair, So, till morrow-morning's come, Bill and mittens, lie ye there
Seite 716 - Di, quibus imperium est animarum, Umbraeque silentes, Et Chaos, et Phlegethon, loca nocte tacentia late, Sit mihi fas audita loqui ; sit numine vestro Pandere res alta terra et caligine mersas.
Seite 552 - The Jungle-people put them out of their mouths and out of their minds. They are very many, evil, dirty, shameless, and they desire, if they have any fixed desire, to be noticed by the Junglepeople. But we do not notice them, even when they throw nuts and filth on our heads.
Seite 584 - A toutes celles et à tous ceux qui auront vécu leur vie humaine, A toutes celles et à tous ceux qui seront morts de leur mort humaine. Pour tâcher de porter remède au mal universel humain.
Seite 551 - They have no remembrance. They boast and chatter and pretend that they are a great people about to do great affairs in the Jungle, but the falling of a nut turns their minds to laughter, and all is forgotten.
Seite 350 - .And now we are arrived at the last In wished harbour where we mean to rest, And make an end of this our journey past ; Here then in quiet Road I think it best We strike our sailes and stedfast anchor cast, For now the sun low setteth in the West, And