The Cornhill MagazineWilliam Makepeace Thackeray Smith, Elder., 1900 |
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The Cornhill Magazine, Volums 9-10;Volum 83;Volum 1901 William Makepeace Thackeray Visualització completa - 1901 |
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Pàgina 239 - ... 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, " Adsum ! " and fell back. It was the word we used at school, when names were called ; and lo, he. whose heart was as that of a little child, had answered to his name, and stood in the presence of The Master.
Pàgina 557 - I see Baucis and Philemon as perfectly before me as if some ancient painter had drawn them; and all the pilgrims in the Canterbury Tales, their humours, their features, and the very dress, as distinctly as if I had supped with them at the Tabard in Southwark.
Pàgina 832 - People are beginning to see that the first requisite to success in life, is to be a good animal.
Pàgina 553 - What is this world? what asketh men to have? Now with his love, now in his colde grave Allone, with-outen any companye.
Pàgina 354 - We have fed our sea for a thousand years And she calls us, still unfed, Though there's never a wave of all her waves But marks our English dead: We have strawed our best to the weed's unrests To the shark and the sheering gull. If blood be the price of admiralty, Lord God, we ha
Pàgina 549 - The Matter and Manner of their Tales, and of their Telling, are so suited to their different Educations, Humours, and Callings, that each of them would be improper in any other Mouth.
Pàgina 563 - His comb was redder than the fine coral And batteled as it were a castle wall. His bill was black, and as the jet it shone ; Like azure were his legges and his toen ;' His nailes whiter than the lily flower, And like the burnished gold was his colour.
Pàgina 219 - As long as boys and girls run about in the dirt, and trundle hoops together, they are both precisely alike. If you catch up one half of these creatures and train them to a particular set of actions and opinions, and the other half to a perfectly opposite set, of course their understandings will differ, as one or the other sort of occupations has called this or that talent into action. There is surely no occasion to go into any deeper or more abstruse reasoning in order to explain so very simple a...
Pàgina 557 - Of his style and manner, if we think first of the romancepoetry and then of Chaucer's divine liquidness of diction, his divine fluidity of movement, it is difficult to speak temperately. They are irresistible, and justify all the rapture with which his successors speak of his
Pàgina 549 - Lady-Prioress and the broad-speaking, gap-toothed Wife of Bath. But enough of this; there is such a variety of game springing up before me that I am distracted in my choice, and know not which to follow. 'Tis sufficient to say, according to the proverb, that here is God's plenty.