The Cornhill Magazine, Volume 161, Issues 961-963William Makepeace Thackeray Smith, Elder and Company, 1945 |
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... seen or things said indoors or out - of - doors have not the same arresting quality as things said or people seen half - indoors , half - out . There is much virtue in a window . It is to a human being as a frame is to a painting , as a ...
... seen or things said indoors or out - of - doors have not the same arresting quality as things said or people seen half - indoors , half - out . There is much virtue in a window . It is to a human being as a frame is to a painting , as a ...
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... seen and not heard . But the bedrooms are the great point . They seem to have been built for giants and giantesses , so vast are their ancient wardrobes , dressing - tables , and beds ; and each of their two windows is in proportion to ...
... seen and not heard . But the bedrooms are the great point . They seem to have been built for giants and giantesses , so vast are their ancient wardrobes , dressing - tables , and beds ; and each of their two windows is in proportion to ...
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... seen from them . From any window , for instance , that looks out on to the sea . For many years I lived in a little house that looks down to what a great poet , reared beside Northumbrian breakers , rudely called " the tideless dolorous ...
... seen from them . From any window , for instance , that looks out on to the sea . For many years I lived in a little house that looks down to what a great poet , reared beside Northumbrian breakers , rudely called " the tideless dolorous ...
Contents
Portrait of an Artist The Young Gibbon Part I 91 | 13 |
St Sergius and St Simeon 446 | 26 |
Edlesborough 310 | 29 |
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