The Quarterly Review, Volumes 268-269John Murray, 1937 |
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Page 266
... given us fine smooth surfaces on which the Daimlers and Bentleys can glide at seventy and eighty miles an hour without a jolt . But what has he given us to look at ? Stark , straight speed- ways , bounded by unsightly curbs . Down go ...
... given us fine smooth surfaces on which the Daimlers and Bentleys can glide at seventy and eighty miles an hour without a jolt . But what has he given us to look at ? Stark , straight speed- ways , bounded by unsightly curbs . Down go ...
Page 282
... given , as you often hear me say , such a delineation of a man's exist- ence as was never given by another man . By quite different resources , by those sparkling , clear and sunny utterances of Dickens's own ( bits of autobiography ...
... given , as you often hear me say , such a delineation of a man's exist- ence as was never given by another man . By quite different resources , by those sparkling , clear and sunny utterances of Dickens's own ( bits of autobiography ...
Page 177
... given stirs the blood ; and is not all that is told in a like manner in this authoritative , fascinating volume . An appendix on the bringing - down of the German air - ace , Baron Richtofen , appears to clear up a vexed uncertainty as ...
... given stirs the blood ; and is not all that is told in a like manner in this authoritative , fascinating volume . An appendix on the bringing - down of the German air - ace , Baron Richtofen , appears to clear up a vexed uncertainty as ...
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