The Cornhill Magazine, Volume 38William Makepeace Thackeray Smith, Elder., 1878 |
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Page 588 - It is not growing like a tree In bulk doth make man better be; Or standing long an oak, three hundred year, To fall a log at last, dry, bald, and sere: A lily of a day Is fairer far in May; Although it fall and die that night, It was the plant and flower of light. In small proportions we just beauties see, And in short measures life may perfect be.
Page 610 - Effingham used to express it, " from the crown of her head to the sole of her foot.
Page 69 - was well begun, Then, from thy breast what thought, Beneath so beautiful a sun, So sad a sigh has brought?
Page 69 - My eyes are dim with childish tears, My heart is idly stirred, For the same sound is in my ears Which in those days I heard. Thus fares it still in our decay : And yet the wiser mind Mourns less for what age takes away Than what it leaves behind.
Page 453 - If they be two, they are two so As stiff twin compasses are two: Thy soul, the fixed foot, makes no show To move, but doth if th
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Page 39 - ... her himself rather than desert his post without orders. Just then, perhaps the Merry Monarch was chasing a moth round the supper-table with the ladies of his court. When Raleigh sailed into Cadiz, and all the forts and ships opened fire on him at once, he scorned to shoot a gun, and made aiu*-er with a flourish of insulting trumpets.