The Cornhill Magazine, Band 55;Band 128William Makepeace Thackeray Smith, Elder and Company, 1923 |
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Seite 514 - Why, Dr. Johnson, this is not so easy as you seem to think; for if you were to make little fishes talk, they would talk like WHALES.
Seite 297 - The changes that were rung upon dots, which in such a position meant such a thing, and in such another position something else, entirely different ; the wonderful vagaries that were played by circles ; the unaccountable consequences that resulted from marks like flies...
Seite 389 - Truth, Sir, is a cow which will yield such people no more milk, and so they are gone to milk the bull.
Seite 521 - But really, sir, when we see a very sensible dog, we don't know what to think of him." Johnson, rolling with joy at the thought which beamed in his eye, turned quickly round, and replied, " True, sir : and when we see a very foolish fellow, we don't know what to think of him" He then rose up, strided to the fire, and stood for some time laughing and exulting.
Seite 460 - TWAS on a lofty vase's side, Where China's gayest art had dyed The azure flowers that blow ; Demurest of the tabby kind, The pensive Selima, reclined, Gazed on the lake below. Her conscious tail her joy declared ; The fair round face, the snowy beard, The velvet of her paws, Her coat, that with the tortoise vies, Her ears of jet, and emerald eyes, She saw; and purr'd applause.
Seite 522 - I did not think he ought to be shut up. His infirmities were not noxious to society. He insisted on people praying with him; and I'd as lief pray with Kit Smart as any one else. Another charge was, that he did not love clean linen; and I have no passion for it.
Seite 299 - There was a black barge, or some other kind of superannuated boat, not far off, high and dry on the ground, with an iron funnel sticking out of it for a chimney and smoking very cosily; but nothing else in the way of a habitation that was visible to me.
Seite 515 - I should do what I could to bail him, and give him any other assistance ; but if he were once fairly hanged, I should not suffer.
Seite 520 - Sir, it is not so much to be lamented that Old England is lost, as that the Scotch have found it."* WILKES.
Seite 127 - E'en death to die for thee. Thou art my life, my love, my heart, The very eyes of me: And hast command of every part, To live and die for thee.