The Quarterly Review, Volume 224John Murray, 1915 |
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... cause the local people to say their fishery is gone in ; only the steadier hands say : ' Us have see'd it aforetime , and will again ! ' And then , perhaps , with a few good hauls , the place will be all of a buzz , and laid - up boats ...
... cause the local people to say their fishery is gone in ; only the steadier hands say : ' Us have see'd it aforetime , and will again ! ' And then , perhaps , with a few good hauls , the place will be all of a buzz , and laid - up boats ...
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... caused by cats , whose wild eyes at night , in pursuit of their prey , looked like evil spirits glaring through the darkness . A little later ( July 1586 ) , we meet with the young prince of Mantua , who plays so poor a part in legends ...
... caused by cats , whose wild eyes at night , in pursuit of their prey , looked like evil spirits glaring through the darkness . A little later ( July 1586 ) , we meet with the young prince of Mantua , who plays so poor a part in legends ...
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... caused a basilica to be erected over it ; but , owing to Saracenic incursions , the basilica fell into decay , and in 1291 the cottage is said to have been removed by the hands of angels during the night to the coast of Dalmatia , where ...
... caused a basilica to be erected over it ; but , owing to Saracenic incursions , the basilica fell into decay , and in 1291 the cottage is said to have been removed by the hands of angels during the night to the coast of Dalmatia , where ...
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... cause to regret this change , or develop- ment , even from an artistic and literary point of view . To have written an Odyssey , as was at one time expected of him , narrating the adventures of the Crusaders on their way home after the ...
... cause to regret this change , or develop- ment , even from an artistic and literary point of view . To have written an Odyssey , as was at one time expected of him , narrating the adventures of the Crusaders on their way home after the ...
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... caused by thy guilt to be . List to the pitying voice Of those who make this choice , Who share His Crown , His painful Majesty- The Saints whom well beseem This languid light , this tearful beam . Soul , let us also die With Him , and ...
... caused by thy guilt to be . List to the pitying voice Of those who make this choice , Who share His Crown , His painful Majesty- The Saints whom well beseem This languid light , this tearful beam . Soul , let us also die With Him , and ...
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Page 403 - Hey, diddle diddle, the cat and the fiddle, The cow jumped over the moon. The little dog laughed to see such sport, And the dish ran away with the spoon!
Page 590 - Government with the utmost earnestness to the fact that the objection to their present method of attack against the trade of their enemies lies in the practical impossibility of employing submarines in the destruction of commerce without disregarding those rules of fairness, reason, justice, and humanity, which all modern opinion regards as imperative.
Page 77 - We have fed our sea for a thousand years And she calls us, still unfed, Though there's never a wave of all her waves But marks our English dead: We have strawed our best to the weed's unrests To the shark and the sheering gull. If blood be the price of admiralty, Lord God, we ha
Page 238 - The trade of neutrals with belligerents in articles not contraband is absolutely free, unless interrupted by blockade; the conveyance by neutrals to belligerents of contraband articles is always unlawful, and such articles may always be seized during transit by sea.
Page 318 - And I said, Oh that I had wings like a dove ! For then would I fly away, and be at rest.
Page 419 - ... the privilege of remaining and continuing their trade, so long as they behave peaceably, and commit no offence against the laws ; and in case their conduct should render them suspected, and the respective governments should think proper to order them to remove, the term of twelve months from the publication of the order shall be allowed them for that purpose, to remove with their families, effects and property ; but this favour shall not be extended to those who shall act contrary to the established...
Page 411 - These homes, this valley spread below me here, The rooks, the tilted stacks, the beasts in pen, Have been the heartfelt things past-speaking dear To unknown generations of dead men, Who, century after century, held these farms, And, looking out to watch the changing sky, Heard, as we hear, the rumours and alarms Of war at hand and danger pressing nigh.
Page 47 - Thus far extend, thus far thy bounds, This be thy just circumference, O world ! " Thus God the heaven created, thus the earth, Matter unformed and void ; darkness profound Covered the abyss ; but on the watery calm His brooding wings the Spirit of God outspread, And vital virtue infused, and vital warmth, Throughout the fluid mass...
Page 305 - Achilles' wrath, to Greece the direful spring Of woes unnumbered, heavenly goddess, sing ! That wrath which hurled to Pluto's gloomy reign The souls of mighty chiefs untimely slain ; Whose limbs unburied on the naked shore, Devouring dogs and hungry vultures tore ; Since great Achilles and Atrides strove.
Page 321 - Awake, my mate! Shake off thy slumbers, and clear and strong Let loose the floods of thy glorious song, The sacred dirge of thy mouth divine For sore-wept Itys, thy child and mine; Thy tender trillings his name prolong With the liquid note of thy tawny throat; Through the leafy curls of the woodbine sweet The pure sound mounts to the heavenly seat, And Phoebus, lord of the golden hair, As he lists to thy wild plaint echoing there, Draws answering strains from his ivoried lyre, Till he stirs the dance...