The Quarterly Review, Volume 226John Murray, 1916 |
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Page 20
... French writer , ' la défaite , c'est la Muse épique par excellence . ' That the Iliad , which was , we may be sure , the highest achievement of the Trojan epic , should be inspired by defeat , is only what we might expect . And , if we ...
... French writer , ' la défaite , c'est la Muse épique par excellence . ' That the Iliad , which was , we may be sure , the highest achievement of the Trojan epic , should be inspired by defeat , is only what we might expect . And , if we ...
Page 32
... French cook and sent to his house in sealed packets or bottles . No incidents excite greater interest in the unre- generated East than those cases of patriarchal and capricious justice on the part of despots of which history records so ...
... French cook and sent to his house in sealed packets or bottles . No incidents excite greater interest in the unre- generated East than those cases of patriarchal and capricious justice on the part of despots of which history records so ...
Page 66
... French streets and squares , or the dense rumour of our own sonorous city - to name these out of a hundred such effects - are so imagined that they appear , not described , but aroused and inspired to action . The international light ...
... French streets and squares , or the dense rumour of our own sonorous city - to name these out of a hundred such effects - are so imagined that they appear , not described , but aroused and inspired to action . The international light ...
Page 74
... French people . He taxed his strength , as he no longer could with impunity , to relieve where he might the distress of the refugees from Belgium - the smoke of their home so little below the sea - line of his own Rye . Of his feeling ...
... French people . He taxed his strength , as he no longer could with impunity , to relieve where he might the distress of the refugees from Belgium - the smoke of their home so little below the sea - line of his own Rye . Of his feeling ...
Page 81
... French Admiralty , concerning certain experiments made in 1914. For three days a number of French battleships , using their heaviest guns , fired on several shore batteries placed at different elevations . The result of the trial proved ...
... French Admiralty , concerning certain experiments made in 1914. For three days a number of French battleships , using their heaviest guns , fired on several shore batteries placed at different elevations . The result of the trial proved ...
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