The Cornhill MagazineWilliam Makepeace Thackeray Smith, Elder and Company, 1904 |
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... Stretton had in Deanery Street . They gave that up two years ago when old Lady Stretton died . I thought they had gone to live in the country . ' ' And all the while they have been living here , ' exclaimed Warrisden . He had spoken ...
... Stretton had in Deanery Street . They gave that up two years ago when old Lady Stretton died . I thought they had gone to live in the country . ' ' And all the while they have been living here , ' exclaimed Warrisden . He had spoken ...
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... Stretton's bridesmaid . ' Upon Warrisden's request she told him what she knew of the couple who lived in the dark house and played truant . Millie Stretton was the daughter of a Judge in Ceylon who , when Millie had reached the age of ...
... Stretton's bridesmaid . ' Upon Warrisden's request she told him what she knew of the couple who lived in the dark house and played truant . Millie Stretton was the daughter of a Judge in Ceylon who , when Millie had reached the age of ...
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... Stretton . Lady Stretton , a tall old woman with the head of a Grenadier , had the characteristic of Sir Anthony Absolute . There was no one so good - tempered so long as she had her own way ; and she generally had it . ' Lady Stretton ...
... Stretton . Lady Stretton , a tall old woman with the head of a Grenadier , had the characteristic of Sir Anthony Absolute . There was no one so good - tempered so long as she had her own way ; and she generally had it . ' Lady Stretton ...
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... Stretton , and the old man's warped and churlish character alone explained it . It was by his doing that the truants gave up their cheery little house in Deanery Street and came to live in Berkeley Square . The old man was a miser , who ...
... Stretton , and the old man's warped and churlish character alone explained it . It was by his doing that the truants gave up their cheery little house in Deanery Street and came to live in Berkeley Square . The old man was a miser , who ...
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... Stretton suggested that it was hardly possible for any man , however careful , to retain a commission in the Coldstreams without an allowance . Sir John , a tall , thin man , with a high bald forehead , and a prim puritanical face ...
... Stretton suggested that it was hardly possible for any man , however careful , to retain a commission in the Coldstreams without an allowance . Sir John , a tall , thin man , with a high bald forehead , and a prim puritanical face ...
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Page 210 - Wherefore I praised the dead which are already dead more than the living which are yet alive. Yea, better is he than both they, which hath not yet been, who hath not seen the evil work that is done under the sun.
Page 340 - GOD bless the king, I mean the faith's defender; God bless — no harm in blessing — the pretender; But who pretender is, or who is king, God bless us all — that's quite another thing.
Page 210 - For the living know that they shall die: but the dead know not any thing, neither have they any more a reward ; for the memory of them is forgotten. Also their love, and their hatred, and their envy, is now perished ; neither have they any more a portion for ever in any thing that is done under the sun.
Page 599 - ... and while I stood gazing, both the children gradually grew fainter to my view, receding, and still receding, till nothing at last but two mournful features were seen in the uttermost distance, which, without speech, strangely impressed upon me the effects of speech: " We are not of Alice, nor of thee, nor are we children at all. The children of Alice call Bartrum father. We are nothing; less than nothing, and dreams. We are only what might have been, and must wait upon the tedious shores of Lethe...
Page 603 - Or aught unseemly. I remember well Her reverend image ; I remember, too, With what a zeal she served her master's house ; And how the prattling tongue of garrulous age Delighted to recount the oft-told tale Or anecdote domestic.
Page 209 - All the rivers run into the sea; yet the sea is not full; unto the place from whence the rivers come, thither they return again.
Page 597 - He was my friend and my father's friend all the life I can remember. I seem to have made foolish friendships ever since. Those are friendships which outlive a second generation. Old as I am waxing, in his eyes I was still the child he first knew me. To the last he called me Charley. I have none to call me Charley now.
Page 599 - Then I told how for seven long years, in hope sometimes, sometimes in despair, yet persisting ever, I courted the fair Alice W n ; and, as much as children could understand, I explained to them what coyness, and difficulty, and denial meant in maidens — when suddenly, turning to Alice, the soul of the first Alice looked out at her eyes with such a reality of representment, that I became in doubt which of them stood there...
Page 369 - Much have I seen and known; cities of men And manners, climates, councils, governments, Myself not least, but honour'd of them all; And drunk delight of battle with my peers, Far on the ringing plains of windy Troy. I am a part of all that I have met; Yet all experience is an arch wherethro' Gleams that untravell'd world, whose margin fades For ever and for ever when I move.
Page 202 - Canst thou lift up thy voice to the clouds, That abundance of waters may cover thee? Canst thou send lightnings, that they may go, And say unto thee, Here we are?