The Cornhill Magazine, Том 19; Том 66

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William Makepeace Thackeray
Smith, Elder and Company, 1892

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Страница 77 - Lawn as white as driven snow; Cyprus black as e'er was crow ; Gloves as sweet as damask roses ; Masks for faces and for noses ; Bugle bracelet, necklace-amber, Perfume for a lady's chamber : Golden quoifs, and stomachers, For my lads to give their dears ¡ Pins, and poking-sticks of steel ; What maids lack from head to heel. Come, buy of me, come : come buy, come buy ; Buy lads, or else your lasses cry. Come, buy, &c.
Страница 80 - Nothing can tend more to bring the whole system into disrepute and disgust with him, than to see with his own eyes and hear with his own ears the effect it has upon the people.
Страница 88 - If there is one thing more certain than another, it is that, as the popular element increases, that government recedes from aristocracy and monarchy toward republicanism.
Страница 314 - REMEDY, to denote which he coined the word CHLORODYNE. Dr. Browne is the SOLE INVENTOR, and, as the composition of Chlorodyne cannot possibly be discovered by Analysis (organic substances defying elimination), and since the formula has never been published, it is evident that any statement to the effect that a compound is identical with Dr.
Страница 249 - t is something; we may stand Where he in English earth is laid, And from his ashes may be made The violet of his native land.
Страница 80 - She is the most beautiful woman I have ever seen in my life, besides being fabulously rich, absolutely independent and rather eccentric.
Страница 314 - Dysentery, Spasms, Cramps, Neuralgia, the Vomiting of Pregnancy, and as a general sedative, that have occurred under our personal observation during many years. In Choleraic Diarrhoea, and even in the more terrible forms of Cholera itself, we have witnessed its surprisingly controlling power.
Страница 461 - ... properly for the place; or lastly, if she liked it better, as my wife had then an opportunity of recommending her to the family of one of the first of our nobility, she undertook to get her a creditable place in it where she would receive no less than £8 or £10 a year wages, with other advantages.
Страница 466 - Beside it rose the grim old watch tower, formerly a lighthouse. Passing down a side street I found myself before the present Dessein's, formerly Quillacq's, and which is quite as old as was the old Dessein. A quaint house it is too, with rather stately, faded chambers, and a grand stair with banisters of flowing design, which ascend to the right and left. A worthy old French lady, Madame Dessein, still presided, and is glad to talk with the sympathetic stranger of the glory of her mansion, of \feu...
Страница 314 - ... in every Anglo-Indian home. The other brands, we are happy to say, are now relegated to the native bazaars, and, judging from their sale, we fancy their sojourn there will be but evanescent. We could multiply instances ad...

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