The Cornhill Magazine

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William Makepeace Thackeray
Smith, Elder and Company, 1887

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Page 24 - The heart knoweth its own bitterness ; and a stranger intermeddleth not with its joy.
Page 558 - And Paul said, I would to God, that not only thou, but also all that hear me this day, were both almost, and altogether such as I am, except these bonds.
Page 521 - I oft have heard of Lydford law, How in the morn they hang and draw, And sit in judgment after.
Page 557 - Is not the whole land before thee? separate thyself, I pray thee, from me : if thou wilt take the left hand, then I will go to the right ; or if thou depart to the right hand, then I will go to the left.
Page 369 - Love took up the harp of life; smote on all the chords with might; Smote the chord of self, which, trembling, passed in music out of sight.
Page 93 - Thou hast given a banner to them that fear thee, that it may be displayed because of the truth.
Page 93 - And the children of Israel did according to all that the LORD commanded Moses: so they pitched by their standards, and so they set forward, every one after their families, according to the house of their fathers.
Page 143 - AS pants the hart for cooling streams, When heated in the chase ; So longs my soul, O GOD, for thee, And thy refreshing grace. 2 For thee, my GOD, the living GOD, My thirsty soul doth pine ; O ! when shall I behold thy face, Thou Majesty divine ? 3...
Page 527 - In Covent Garden to-night, going to fetch home my wife, I stopped at the great Coffee-house 1 there, where I never was before : where Dryden, the poet, I knew at Cambridge, and all the wits of the town, and Harris the player, and Mr. Hoole, of our College. And, had I had time then, or could at other times, it will be good coming thither, for there, I perceive, is very witty and pleasant discourse.
Page 517 - Which, pois'd by magic, rests its central weight On yonder pointed rock ; firm as it seems, Such is its strange and virtuous property, It moves obsequious to the gentlest touch...

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