The Cornhill MagazineWilliam Makepeace Thackeray Smith, Elder and Company, 1917 - Electronic journals |
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Page 165 - The intelligible forms of ancient poets, The fair humanities of old religion, The power, the beauty, and the majesty, That had their haunts in dale, or piny mountain, Or forest by slow stream, or pebbly spring, Or chasms and watery depths; all these have vanished; They live no longer in the faith of reason.
Page 18 - Inasmuch as the Provinces of Canada, Nova Scotia and New Brunswick have joined in a Declaration that the Construction of the Intercolonial Railway is essential to the Consolidation of the Union of British North America, and to the Assent thereto of Nova Scotia and New Brunswick, and have consequently agreed that Provision should be made for its immediate Construction by the Government of Canada: Therefore, in order to give effect to that Agreement, it shall be the Duty of the Government and Parliament...
Page 261 - And lose, and start again at your beginnings And never breathe a word about your loss; If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew To serve your turn long after they are gone, And so hold on when there is nothing in you Except the Will which says to them: "Hold on!
Page 116 - Out of breath, but full of gladness, I looked at my top-boots and wondered how many of my friends wore loose boots with thick soles to them. Everyone has a different sort of vanity; mine went to my head, not to my feet: two pairs of stockings and loose boots were essential to my comfort out hunting.
Page 28 - The engine stops : a pleasant silence reigns — silence, not broken, but intensified by the soft, sleepy wires' insistent strains, that rise and fall, as with a sweeping glide I slither down the well-oiled sides of space, towards a lower, less enchanted place. The clouds draw nearer, changing as they come. Now, like a flash, fog grips me by the throat. Down goes the nose : at once the wires...
Page 377 - And the sentimental, — that's one-half "fudge"; For Maud soon thought the Judge a bore, With all his learning and all his lore; And the Judge would have bartered Maud's fair face For more refinement and social grace. If, of all words of tongue and pen, The saddest are, "It might have been...
Page 49 - And now that they are returning wounded or maimed in the fight for ' the safety, honour, and welfare of our Sovereign and his Dominions...
Page 121 - He was perfectly unselfconscious: humble, without being self-centred; grateful, without being complacent; original and uneccentric; full of ideas, without being jumpy; reverent, imaginative and to me deeply moving. He finished; and we all got up. I took his hand, pressed it with both of mine and thanked him. I told him how much I had liked his prayer. We sat down in silence. He asked me what ' I had got in my writing-case. I took out books and a few photographs and trifles and showed them to him:...
Page 116 - Don't shut the door!' and, as he stepped off, I stepped in. My gratitude knew no bounds. I threw the man ten shillings: if he had shut the door or shown any fear, I should have been done. Trains move off with great dignity and if travellers would move on instead of crawling like rolling-stock, fewer trains would be missed.
Page 117 - Sir'; this was peculiar to myself and by no means a fashion (I was born at a later period than The Fairchild Family). I fidgeted about, with an occasional glance at the old man. Suddenly I caught his lively eye fixed on me.