The Cornhill Magazine, Volume 2William Makepeace Thackeray Smith, Elder and Company, 1860 - Electronic journals |
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... turn about in it . " Delightful as London city was , King George I. liked to be out of it as much as ever he could ; and when there , passed all his time with his Germans . It was with them as with Blucher , 100 years afterwards , when ...
... turn about in it . " Delightful as London city was , King George I. liked to be out of it as much as ever he could ; and when there , passed all his time with his Germans . It was with them as with Blucher , 100 years afterwards , when ...
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... of us need admire ; but , among the nobler features are justice , courage , moderation - and these we may recognize ere we turn the picture to the wall . Physiological Riddles . I. - HOW WE ACT . WHEN THE FOUR GEORGES .
... of us need admire ; but , among the nobler features are justice , courage , moderation - and these we may recognize ere we turn the picture to the wall . Physiological Riddles . I. - HOW WE ACT . WHEN THE FOUR GEORGES .
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... turn out well on this evening she would forgive Mrs. Harold Smith all her sins . And for a while it looked as though things would turn out well . Not that it must be supposed that Lord Lufton had come there with any intention of making ...
... turn out well on this evening she would forgive Mrs. Harold Smith all her sins . And for a while it looked as though things would turn out well . Not that it must be supposed that Lord Lufton had come there with any intention of making ...
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... turn Dandy into money . Indeed , just at this moment , when he was a good deal over at Barchester , going through those deep mysteries and rigid ecclesiastical examinations which are necessary before a clergyman can become one of a ...
... turn Dandy into money . Indeed , just at this moment , when he was a good deal over at Barchester , going through those deep mysteries and rigid ecclesiastical examinations which are necessary before a clergyman can become one of a ...
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... turn the page - I read the next , And then the next , and still I find it . Read here how Wealth aside was thrust , And Folly set in place exalted ; How Princes footed in the dust , While lackies in the saddle vaulted . Though thrice a ...
... turn the page - I read the next , And then the next , and still I find it . Read here how Wealth aside was thrust , And Folly set in place exalted ; How Princes footed in the dust , While lackies in the saddle vaulted . Though thrice a ...
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Page 458 - I should renounce the devil and all his works, the pomps and vanities of this wicked world, and all the sinful lusts of the flesh.
Page 400 - I consider it an indispensable duty to close this last act of my official life by commending the interests of our dearest country to the protection of Almighty God, and those who have the superintendence of them to His holy keeping. Having now finished the work assigned me, I retire from the great theatre of action, and bidding an affectionate farewell to this august body, under whose orders I have so long acted, I here offer my commission, and take my leave of all the employments of public life.
Page 179 - This picture, placed these busts between, Gives satire all its strength : Wisdom and Wit are little seen, But Folly at full length.
Page 271 - Kent. Vex not his ghost. O, let him pass! He hates him That would upon the rack of this tough world Stretch him out longer.
Page 178 - Lepell) walked with me three or four hours by moonlight, and we met no creature of any quality but the king, who gave audience to the vicechamberlain, all alone, under the garden wall.
Page 153 - The essential value and truth of Dickens's writings have been unwisely lost sight of by many thoughtful persons, merely because he presents his truth with some colour of caricature. Unwisely, because Dickens's caricature, though often gross, is never mistaken. Allowing for his manner of telling them, the things he tells us are always true.
Page 82 - WHAT was he doing, the great god Pan, Down in the reeds by the river? Spreading ruin and scattering ban, Splashing and paddling with hoofs of a goat, And breaking the golden lilies afloat • With the dragon-fly on the river? He tore out a reed, the great god Pan...
Page 384 - Duke of Cornwall and Rothsay, Earl of Carrick, Baron of Renfrew, Lord of the Isles, and Great Steward of Scotland, Prince of Wales and Earl of Chester. All the people at his birth thronged to see this lovely child ; and behind a gilt china-screen railing in St.
Page 256 - Napoleon to be but an episode, and George III is to be alive through all these varied changes, to accompany his people through all these revolutions of thought, government, society ; to survive out of the old world into ours. When I first saw England, she was in mourning for the young Princess Charlotte, the hope of the empire.