The Cornhill MagazineWilliam Makepeace Thackeray Smith, Elder and Company, 1921 |
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Página 99 - Shakspeare, that, take him for all in all, we shall not look upon his like again.
Página 36 - He judged the cause of the poor and needy; then it was well with him : was not this to know me ? saith the LORD.
Página 23 - For Mr. Whistler's own sake, no less than for the protection of the purchaser, Sir Coutts Lindsay ought not to have admitted works into the gallery in which the ill-educated conceit of the artist so nearly approached the aspect of wilful imposture.
Página 357 - Gratiano speaks an infinite deal of nothing, more than any man in all Venice : his reasons are as two grains of wheat hid in, two bushels of chaff; you shall seek all day ere you find them ; and when you have found them, they are not worth the search.
Página 310 - Then further we must say to ourselves, ' What requireth Christ of a Christian man ? ' Now turn up your trump, your heart, (hearts is trump, as I said before,) and cast your trump, your heart, on this card...
Página 32 - Although my health has been lately much broken, I hesitated in giving in my resignation of my Art-Professorship in the hope that I might still in some imperfect way have been useful at Oxford. But the result of the Whistler trial leaves me no further option. I cannot hold a Chair from which I have no power of expressing judgment without being taxed for it by British Law.
Página 25 - I never saw anything so impudent on the walls of any exhibition, in any country, as last year in London. It was a daub professing to be a " harmony in pink and white " (or some such nonsense;) absolute rubbish, and which had taken about a quarter of an hour to scrawl or daub it had no pretence to be called painting. The price asked for it was two hundred and fifty guineas.
Página 177 - Nay, more, that it is still further to depress the condition of the lowest class. The new forces, elevating in their nature though they be, do not act upon the social fabric from underneath, as was for a long time hoped and believed, but strike it at a point intermediate between top and bottom. It is as though an immense wedge were being forced, not underneath society, but through society. Those who are above the point of separation are elevated, but those who are below are crushed down.
Página 273 - THE cat runs races with her tail. The dog Leaps oer the orchard hedge and knarls the grass. The swine run round and grunt and play with straw, Snatching out hasty mouthfuls from the stack. Sudden upon the elmtree tops the crow Unceremonious visit pays and croaks, Then swops away.
Página 32 - I heard him muttering low to himself at intervals, " Soapsuds and whitewash ! " again, and again, and again. At last I went to him, asking "why he minded what they said ? " Then he burst out ; — " Soapsuds and whitewash ! What would they have ? I wonder what they think the sea's like? I wish they'd been in it.