The Cornhill Magazine, Volumes 9-10; Volume 83; Volume 1901William Makepeace Thackeray Smith, Elder and Company, 1901 |
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... course a serpent star Coils and shatters at her heels ; Peals the horn exulting , peals Plaintive , is it near or far . Huntress , arrowy to pursue , In and out of woody glen , Under cliffs that tear the blue , Over torrent , over fen ...
... course a serpent star Coils and shatters at her heels ; Peals the horn exulting , peals Plaintive , is it near or far . Huntress , arrowy to pursue , In and out of woody glen , Under cliffs that tear the blue , Over torrent , over fen ...
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... course , and would have turned away angry at being hoaxed . Sensible people are not to be misled by fine prospectuses and sounding names : the present Writer has been for five - and - twenty years before the world , which has taken his ...
... course , and would have turned away angry at being hoaxed . Sensible people are not to be misled by fine prospectuses and sounding names : the present Writer has been for five - and - twenty years before the world , which has taken his ...
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... course must form a part , but only a part of our entertain- ment . We want , on the other hand , as much reality as possible - discussion and narrative of events interesting to the public , personal adventures and observation , familiar ...
... course must form a part , but only a part of our entertain- ment . We want , on the other hand , as much reality as possible - discussion and narrative of events interesting to the public , personal adventures and observation , familiar ...
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... course , I made the most of the circumstance . 6 It was arranged that Thackeray was to write ' Lovel the Widower ' for the magazine ; but we thought it well to secure a second novel , and decided on asking Anthony Trollope to write a ...
... course , I made the most of the circumstance . 6 It was arranged that Thackeray was to write ' Lovel the Widower ' for the magazine ; but we thought it well to secure a second novel , and decided on asking Anthony Trollope to write a ...
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... course , could not know this . I well remember the expression on Trollope's face at that moment , and no one who knew Trollope will doubt that he could look furious on an adequate - and some- times on an inadequate - occasion ! He came ...
... course , could not know this . I well remember the expression on Trollope's face at that moment , and no one who knew Trollope will doubt that he could look furious on an adequate - and some- times on an inadequate - occasion ! He came ...
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