The Cornhill MagazineWilliam Makepeace Thackeray Smith, Elder and Company, 1922 |
З цієї книги
Результати 1-5 із 88
Сторінка 4
... become ; they had still for rivals the old stocking and the cracked teapot , and among banks , Ovington's at Aldersbury was neither of long standing nor of more than local repute . Mr. Ovington led the way into the house , and had ...
... become ; they had still for rivals the old stocking and the cracked teapot , and among banks , Ovington's at Aldersbury was neither of long standing nor of more than local repute . Mr. Ovington led the way into the house , and had ...
Сторінка 9
... become cheap , and , fostered by credit , the growth of enterprise through- out the country had been marvellous . It was as if , after the frosts of winter , the south wind had blown and sleeping life had everywhere awakened . Men ...
... become cheap , and , fostered by credit , the growth of enterprise through- out the country had been marvellous . It was as if , after the frosts of winter , the south wind had blown and sleeping life had everywhere awakened . Men ...
Сторінка 23
... become one of the landed class which at that time monopolised all power and all influence , political as well as social . Such a man could only see in Clement a failure , a reversion to the yeoman type , and own with sorrow the irony of ...
... become one of the landed class which at that time monopolised all power and all influence , political as well as social . Such a man could only see in Clement a failure , a reversion to the yeoman type , and own with sorrow the irony of ...
Сторінка 37
... become their prey , that the rulers of a great and ancient city are the custodians of its treasures , and bound to pass them on , as intact as may be , to future generations of its citizens . Far from this , they have carried on their ...
... become their prey , that the rulers of a great and ancient city are the custodians of its treasures , and bound to pass them on , as intact as may be , to future generations of its citizens . Far from this , they have carried on their ...
Сторінка 40
... become the quest and object , as their ideal of the true line of beauty . The monument itself , with its gaudy monster groups of gilt statuary and glaring white colonnades , seems to have gathered up into itself and then expressed all ...
... become the quest and object , as their ideal of the true line of beauty . The monument itself , with its gaudy monster groups of gilt statuary and glaring white colonnades , seems to have gathered up into itself and then expressed all ...
Інші видання - Показати все
The Cornhill Magazine, Томи 9 – 10;Том 83;Том 1901 William Makepeace Thackeray Повний перегляд - 1901 |
Загальні терміни та фрази
Acherley Aldersbury Angelo Arthur asked bank banker beautiful better Betty blue tit Bourdillon called chuprassi church Clement coal tit colour CORNHILL delight door doubt E. T. Cook eyes face fancy father fear feeling feet felt followed garden Garth Gascoigne George Smith girl grey grey seals hand Hannah head heard heart hope horse hour Jahweh Josina knew lady Leslie Stephen LII.-NO literary lived looked Lord matter mind Miss molybdenite morning mother Nawab Sahib Neil Gow never night Nobby officers once Ovington passed perhaps Purslow road rock Rodd round Savoy operas seal seemed side Sir Arthur Pearson skerries Squire stood sure tell Thackeray things thought told took turned W. S. Gilbert watched window wonder words write young
Популярні уривки
Сторінка 649 - MID pleasures and palaces though we may roam, Be it ever so humble, there's no place like home!
Сторінка 528 - Worlds on worlds are rolling ever From creation to decay, Like the bubbles on a river, Sparkling, bursting, borne away. But they are still immortal , • Who, through birth's orient portal And death's dark chasm hurrying to and fro, Clothe their unceasing flight In the brief dust and light Gathered around their chariots as they go...
Сторінка 568 - When she was good, she was very very good, But when she was bad, she was horrid.
Сторінка 35 - This Poem was chiefly written upon the mountainous ruins of the Baths of Caracalla, among the flowery glades and thickets of odoriferous blossoming trees, which are extended in ever winding labyrinths upon its immense platforms and dizzy arches suspended in the air.
Сторінка 431 - Whoever knows that language, has ready access to all the vast intellectual wealth, which all the wisest nations of the earth have created and hoarded in the course of ninety generations.
Сторінка 121 - About thirty years ago Miss Maria Ward, of Huntingdon, with only seven thousand pounds, had the good luck to captivate Sir Thomas Bertram, of Mansfield Park, in the county of Northampton, and to be thereby raised to the rank of a baronet's lady, with all the comforts and consequences of an handsome house and large income.
Сторінка 430 - We must teach them some foreign language. The claims of our own language it is hardly necessary to recapitulate. It stands preeminent even among the languages of the West.
Сторінка 127 - IN THE SECOND CENTURY of the Christian era, the empire of Rome comprehended the fairest part of the earth, and the most civilized portion of mankind.
Сторінка 730 - I have now spent fiftyfive years in resolving : having, from the earliest time almost that I can remember, been forming schemes of a better life. I have done nothing. The need of doing, therefore, is pressing, since the time of doing is short. O GOD, grant me to resolve aright, and to keep my resolutions, for JESUS CHRIST'S sake. Amen.
Сторінка 121 - I was born in the year 1632, in the city of York, of a good family, though not of that country, my father being a foreigner of Bremen who settled first at Hull.