The Cornhill Magazine, 8. kötetWilliam Makepeace Thackeray Smith, Elder., 1900 |
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5. oldal
... told ' a coach was a strange monster in those days , and the sight of it put both man and horse into amazement ; some said it was a great crabshell brought out of China , and some imagined it to be one of the pagan temples in which the ...
... told ' a coach was a strange monster in those days , and the sight of it put both man and horse into amazement ; some said it was a great crabshell brought out of China , and some imagined it to be one of the pagan temples in which the ...
7. oldal
... told that the Mayor and Sheriffs entertained a thousand persons who had accompanied them in their progress . Let me turn to some details of municipal life . The water supply of London was of two kinds . Some houses were supplied from ...
... told that the Mayor and Sheriffs entertained a thousand persons who had accompanied them in their progress . Let me turn to some details of municipal life . The water supply of London was of two kinds . Some houses were supplied from ...
23. oldal
... told , ' Oh , labour is so difficult to get . You know , the Kaffirs won't work . ' I longed to suggest that the young people I saw about might very well turn to and lend a hand , at all events to start a poultry yard , or dairy , or ...
... told , ' Oh , labour is so difficult to get . You know , the Kaffirs won't work . ' I longed to suggest that the young people I saw about might very well turn to and lend a hand , at all events to start a poultry yard , or dairy , or ...
24. oldal
... told me afterwards that her dismay was indeed great when her Kaffirs brought them back in triumph , announcing that the ' Inkose ' ( chieftain ) had just bought them , so the poor lady had to pay the auctioneer's fees , and replace the ...
... told me afterwards that her dismay was indeed great when her Kaffirs brought them back in triumph , announcing that the ' Inkose ' ( chieftain ) had just bought them , so the poor lady had to pay the auctioneer's fees , and replace the ...
25. oldal
... told that both the corps were much stronger on paper , but that the absentees could not be spared from the stores , or sugar estates , or offices to which they belonged . It was partly to show my own sympathy and interest in the ...
... told that both the corps were much stronger on paper , but that the absentees could not be spared from the stores , or sugar estates , or offices to which they belonged . It was partly to show my own sympathy and interest in the ...
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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.