The Works of William Makepeace Thackeray, Volume 8Harper & bros., 1900 |
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Page 708 - The steps of a good man are ordered by the Lord: and he delighteth in his way. Though he fall, he shall not be utterly cast down : for the Lord upholdeth him with his hand.
Page 748 - At the usual evening hour the chapel bell began to toll, and Thomas Newcome's hands outside the bed feebly beat time. And just as the last bell struck a peculiar sweet smile shone over his face, and he lifted up his head a little, and quickly said,
Page 410 - He either fears his fate too much, or his desert is small, who dares not put it to the touch, and win or lose it all.
Page 747 - He is calling for you again, dear lady," she said, going up to Madame de Florac, who was still kneeling ; " and just now he said he wanted Pendennis to take care of his boy. He will not know you." She hid her tears as she spoke. She went into the room where Clive was at the bed's foot ; the old man within it talked on rapidly for a while ; then again he would sigh and be still : once more I heard him say hurriedly, "Take care of him when I'm in India;" and then with a heart-rending voice lie called...
Page 706 - ... time, and how the monitor would cane us afterwards because our shins were kicked. Yonder sit forty cherry-cheeked boys, thinking about home and holidays to-morrow. Yonder sit some threescore old gentlemen pensioners of the hospital, listening to the prayers and the psalms. You hear them coughing feebly in the twilight, — the old reverend blackgowns. Is Codd Ajax alive, you wonder? — the Cistercian lads called these old gentlemen Codds, I know not wherefore — I know not wherefore — but...
Page 715 - O time too swift, O swiftness never ceasing! His youth gainst time and age hath ever spurned, But spurned in vain; youth waneth by increasing; Beauty, strength, youth are flowers but fading seen; Duty, faith, love are roots, and ever green. His helmet now shall make a hive for bees; And, lovers...
Page 186 - Looking tranquillity. It strikes an awe And terror on my aching sight. The tombs And monumental caves of death look cold, And shoot a chillness to my trembling heart.
Page 74 - It is the fashion to run down George IV., but what myriads of Londoners ought to thank him for inventing Brighton ! One of the best of physicians our city has ever known, is kind, cheerful, merry Doctor Brighton.
Page xxxiv - I have not heard that song," he was kind enough to say, " better performed since Mr. Incledon sung it. He was a great singer, sir, and I may say, in the words of our immortal Shakspeare, that, take him for all in all, we shall not look upon his like again.
Page 186 - Dr. Johnson, talked admirably, but did not write English : that young Keats was a genius to be estimated in future days with young Raphael : and that a young gentleman of Cambridge who had lately published two volumes of verses, might take rank with the greatest poets of all.