The Cornhill Magazine, Volume 47William Makepeace Thackeray Smith, Elder and Company, 1883 - Electronic journals |
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... ELSE ? " 513 " OH , HUGH , HAVE YOU COME HERE TO LOOK FOR ME ? " 614 PHIL LED THE WAY SILENTLY ....... 641 " YOU SAID ' No ' THAT DAY— " 44 VERY WELL ? " 726 No. 277 PRICE ONE SHILLING . JAN 2.1883 CORNIFICAL MAGAZINE.
... ELSE ? " 513 " OH , HUGH , HAVE YOU COME HERE TO LOOK FOR ME ? " 614 PHIL LED THE WAY SILENTLY ....... 641 " YOU SAID ' No ' THAT DAY— " 44 VERY WELL ? " 726 No. 277 PRICE ONE SHILLING . JAN 2.1883 CORNIFICAL MAGAZINE.
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... Phil , " said the boy , looking shyly up at him , and dropping his eyes again . " What else ? " asked Tregarthen . He leaned forward from his heaped - up pillows , and fondled the child's head with his thin hand . The boy murmured ...
... Phil , " said the boy , looking shyly up at him , and dropping his eyes again . " What else ? " asked Tregarthen . He leaned forward from his heaped - up pillows , and fondled the child's head with his thin hand . The boy murmured ...
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... Phil , and let us have a talk together . did you come from in the ship ? " " Come and sit on the bedside , Help him up , nurse . Where " Bombay , " said the child quite readily . " And where were you going to ? " " London . " " And who ...
... Phil , and let us have a talk together . did you come from in the ship ? " " Come and sit on the bedside , Help him up , nurse . Where " Bombay , " said the child quite readily . " And where were you going to ? " " London . " " And who ...
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... Phil , by this time a strapping lad , who could thrash the young Pen- ruths , respectively three and four years bis senior , whenever they ven- tured on the island , and who pretty generally did it ( being provoked thereto by town ...
... Phil , by this time a strapping lad , who could thrash the young Pen- ruths , respectively three and four years bis senior , whenever they ven- tured on the island , and who pretty generally did it ( being provoked thereto by town ...
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... Phil , became his chief delight . Tregarthen's library was especially rich in poetry and drama , and every day Phil plunged headlong into some new stream of joy and bathed in it . To rush down to the Sea Gate with a smuggled volume , to ...
... Phil , became his chief delight . Tregarthen's library was especially rich in poetry and drama , and every day Phil plunged headlong into some new stream of joy and bathed in it . To rush down to the Sea Gate with a smuggled volume , to ...
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Page 198 - Tis the merry Nightingale That crowds, and hurries, and precipitates With fast thick warble his delicious notes, As he were fearful that an April night Would be too short for him to utter forth His love-chant, and disburthen his full soul Of all its music...
Page 437 - By all the heav'ns thou hast in him, Fair sister of the seraphim! By all of him we have in thee, Leave nothing of myself in me: Let me so read thy life that I Unto all life of mine may die.
Page 564 - Like a poet hidden In the light of thought, Singing hymns unbidden, Till the world is wrought To sympathy with hopes and fears it heeded not...
Page 199 - To the poor loveless ever-anxious crowd, Ah! from the soul itself must issue forth A light, a glory, a fair luminous cloud Enveloping the Earth And from the soul itself must there be sent A sweet and potent voice, of its own birth, Of all sweet sounds the life and element!
Page 176 - Where the thin harvest waves its wither'd ears; Rank weeds, that every art and care defy, Reign o'er the land and rob the blighted rye : There thistles stretch their prickly arms afar, And to the ragged infant threaten war...
Page 670 - I have of late— but wherefore I know not— lost all my mirth, forgone all custom of exercises; and indeed it goes so heavily with my disposition that this goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory; this most excellent canopy, the air, look you, this brave o'erhanging firmament, this majestical roof fretted with golden fire, why, it appears no other thing to me than a foul and pestilent congregation of vapours.
Page 198 - A pleasure in the dimness of the stars. And hark! the Nightingale begins its song, "Most musical, most melancholy" bird! A melancholy bird? Oh! idle thought! In Nature there is nothing melancholy. But some night-wandering man whose heart was pierced With the remembrance of a grievous wrong, Or slow distemper, or neglected love, (And so, poor wretch!
Page 437 - O thou undaunted daughter of desires ! By all thy dower of lights and fires; By all the eagle in thee, all the dove; By all thy lives and deaths of love...
Page 216 - ... and mystery, guard her shrine, I saw Beauty enthroned; and though her gaze struck awe, I drew it in as simply as my breath.
Page 192 - Darkling I listen; and for many a time I have been half in love with easeful Death, Call'd him soft names in many a mused rhyme, To take into the air my quiet breath...