The Cornhill Magazine, 8. kötetWilliam Makepeace Thackeray Smith, Elder., 1900 |
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... natural centre of amusement to the citizens of London , and the Globe Theatre on the Bankside is famous through its connection with Shakespeare . Such , then , are roughly the boundaries of the district which your imagination has to ...
... natural centre of amusement to the citizens of London , and the Globe Theatre on the Bankside is famous through its connection with Shakespeare . Such , then , are roughly the boundaries of the district which your imagination has to ...
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... nature or its owner's name by printing it in the unobtrusive manner which now prevails . It hung out a huge signboard , bearing a suitable emblem , a structure which had to be supported by stout iron fastenings . I do not think that a ...
... nature or its owner's name by printing it in the unobtrusive manner which now prevails . It hung out a huge signboard , bearing a suitable emblem , a structure which had to be supported by stout iron fastenings . I do not think that a ...
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... natural result of this state of things was that the Thames was the silent highway of London . One bridge only spanned it , and led to Southwark . Of this structure London was justly proud . It was sixty feet high , and thirty broad . It ...
... natural result of this state of things was that the Thames was the silent highway of London . One bridge only spanned it , and led to Southwark . Of this structure London was justly proud . It was sixty feet high , and thirty broad . It ...
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... nature of nightmares . There are those who had passed scatheless through the pestilence that had destroyed in the noonday at Varna , had shared in the quick and brilliant triumph on the heights of the Alma , and had borne a noble part ...
... nature of nightmares . There are those who had passed scatheless through the pestilence that had destroyed in the noonday at Varna , had shared in the quick and brilliant triumph on the heights of the Alma , and had borne a noble part ...
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... nature , and exceedingly penetrating ; the fact that we were riding into it meant , moreover , that we were entering territory already soaked , a matter of much import for the horses . Accordingly , as we got wetter and more ...
... nature , and exceedingly penetrating ; the fact that we were riding into it meant , moreover , that we were entering territory already soaked , a matter of much import for the horses . Accordingly , as we got wetter and more ...
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314. oldal - ... noise Of bagpipers on distant Highland hills. The Shepherd, at such warning, of his flock Bethought him, and he to himself would say 'The winds are now devising work for me!
398. oldal - My father, my father, the chariots of Israel and the horsemen thereof!
847. oldal - But love, first learned in a lady's eyes, Lives not alone immured in the brain; But, with the motion of all elements, Courses as swift as thought in every power, And gives to every power a double power, Above their functions and their offices.
403. oldal - The flowers in an instant lost their light, the river its music ; the hills became oppressively desolate; a heaviness in the boughs of the darkened forest showed how much of their former power had been dependent upon a life which was not theirs, how much of the glory of the imperishable, or continually renewed, creation is reflected from things more precious in their memories than it, in its renewing.
252. oldal - It is a truth, that in his penitential years, viewing some of those pieces that had been loosely (God knows too loosely) scattered in his youth, he wished they had ,been abortive, or so shortlived, that his own eyes had witnessed their funerals.
121. oldal - Tis not enough that through the cloud thou break To dry the rain on my storm-beaten face, For no man well of such a salve can speak That heals the wound and cures not the disgrace...
123. oldal - The dropping of the daylight in the West, The bough of cherries some officious fool Broke in the orchard for her, the white mule She rode with round the terrace — all and each Would draw from her alike the approving speech, Or blush, at least.
313. oldal - For most men in a brazen prison live, Where, in the sun's hot eye, With heads bent o'er their toil, they languidly Their lives to some unmeaning taskwork give, Dreaming of nought beyond their prison-wall.
423. oldal - I DO not ask, O Lord, that life may be A pleasant road ; I do not ask that Thou wouldst take from me Aught of its load ; I do not ask that flowers should always spring Beneath my feet ; I know too well the poison and the sting Of things too sweet. For one thing only, Lord, dear Lord, I plead, Lead me aright — Though strength should falter, and though heart should bleed — Through Peace to Light.
769. oldal - L'Ironie et la Pitié sont deux bonnes conseillères; l'une, en souriant, nous rend la vie aimable; l'autre, qui pleure, nous la rend sacrée.