The Cornhill Magazine, Volume 78William Makepeace Thackeray Smith, Elder and Company, 1898 |
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... Tolcarne , Much Buckland , Wessex . ELIZABETH , his sister , spinster . HARRY ( Major , R.A. ) and CHARLES ( of the Equity Bar ) , his brothers . LAURA , LADY ETCHINGHAM , second wife and now widow of the late Sir Nicholas Etchingham ...
... Tolcarne , Much Buckland , Wessex . ELIZABETH , his sister , spinster . HARRY ( Major , R.A. ) and CHARLES ( of the Equity Bar ) , his brothers . LAURA , LADY ETCHINGHAM , second wife and now widow of the late Sir Nicholas Etchingham ...
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... Tolcarne , and I should like to know what you think of everybody and of how things generally prosper . Is Margaret ordering the house as wisely as if the child were her own grandmother ? and is she mothering the garden ? The almonds and ...
... Tolcarne , and I should like to know what you think of everybody and of how things generally prosper . Is Margaret ordering the house as wisely as if the child were her own grandmother ? and is she mothering the garden ? The almonds and ...
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... Tolcarne , to ' the dull confines of the drooping west . ' Old age does not strike me as pretty in cities . You must lend me a hovel somewhere , and I will be no trouble , nor expect any vegetables . Remember , remember the vegetable ...
... Tolcarne , to ' the dull confines of the drooping west . ' Old age does not strike me as pretty in cities . You must lend me a hovel somewhere , and I will be no trouble , nor expect any vegetables . Remember , remember the vegetable ...
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... Tolcarne , and I am no longer a Political , but a squire , or squireling , of Wessex ; and you ask me for the news . 6 Vegetables you shall have as soon as it pleases the elements and Enticknap . Talk not to me of terrifying curates ...
... Tolcarne , and I am no longer a Political , but a squire , or squireling , of Wessex ; and you ask me for the news . 6 Vegetables you shall have as soon as it pleases the elements and Enticknap . Talk not to me of terrifying curates ...
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... Tolcarne will blossom out in books like the rose . I hold in affectionate remembrance the shelf of old folio editions of the English classics . It was from that shelf , one afternoon in spring , when the birds sang and the sunlight came ...
... Tolcarne will blossom out in books like the rose . I hold in affectionate remembrance the shelf of old folio editions of the English classics . It was from that shelf , one afternoon in spring , when the birds sang and the sunlight came ...
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Page 89 - twas a famous victory. 'My father lived at Blenheim then, Yon little stream hard by; They burnt his dwelling to the ground, And he was forced to fly: So with his wife and child he fled, Nor had he where to rest his head.
Page 461 - In dreary hospitals of pain, The cheerless corridors, The cold and stony floors. Lo! in that house of misery A lady with a lamp I see Pass through the glimmering gloom, And flit from room to room. And slow, as in a dream of bliss, The speechless sufferer turns to kiss Her shadow, as it falls Upon the darkening walls.
Page 461 - As if a door in heaven should be Opened and then closed suddenly, The vision came and went, The light shone and was spent.
Page 14 - PRENTICES TO DEATH, AND HID THEM IN THE COAL-HOLE. For her mind Shaped strictest plans of discipline. Sage schemes ! Such as Lycurgus taught, when at the shrine Of the Orthyan goddess he bade flog The little Spartans ; such as erst chastised Our Milton, when at college.
Page 414 - It did ; and to prove that she did not keep them waiting, in a few minutes she came into the room in a loose white nightgown and shawl, her nightcap thrown off, and her hair falling upon her shoulders, her feet in slippers, tears in her eyes, but perfectly collected and dignified.
Page 137 - Where the great Sun begins his state Robed in flames and amber light, The clouds in thousand liveries dight; While the ploughman, near at hand, Whistles o'er the furrowed land, And the milkmaid singeth blithe, And the mower whets his scythe, And every shepherd tells his tale Under the hawthorn in the dale.
Page 90 - They say it was a shocking sight After the field was won; For many thousand bodies here Lay rotting in the sun; But things like that, you know, must be After a famous victory. "Great praise the Duke of Marlbro' won, And our good Prince Eugene.
Page 325 - Behn curiously sealed up, with " private and confidential " on the packet, to my gay old grand-aunt. The next time I saw her afterwards she gave me back Aphra, properly wrapped up, with nearly these words : — " Take back your bonny Mrs. Behn, and if you will take my advice, put her in the fire ; for I found it impossible to get through the very first novel. But is it not...
Page 196 - Oh! if I were Queen of France, Or still better, Pope of Rome, I would have no fighting men abroad, No weeping maids at home.
Page 18 - And clap the padlock on their mind !" — And for these reasons, thanking the gentlemen who had done him the honour to drink his health, he should propose " MERLIN the late Minister of Justice, and Trial by Jury .'