The Quarterly Review, Volume 226John Murray, 1916 |
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... Canal immediately opposite Suez . It was quite out of the question that this proposal should be accepted . All the preparations had been made for reading the Firman . The square in front of the Abdin Palace , where the ceremony was to ...
... Canal immediately opposite Suez . It was quite out of the question that this proposal should be accepted . All the preparations had been made for reading the Firman . The square in front of the Abdin Palace , where the ceremony was to ...
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... Canal , Heligoland , the North Sea coast and its defences , etc. I was naturally most anxious to borrow ' them for a little while . But that was easier wished than executed . Maps from eight to ten feet long , fastened on rollers , are ...
... Canal , Heligoland , the North Sea coast and its defences , etc. I was naturally most anxious to borrow ' them for a little while . But that was easier wished than executed . Maps from eight to ten feet long , fastened on rollers , are ...
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... Canal . And this is what I have now to tell you about . ( 2 ) GERMANY'S COAST DEFENCES . From what I gathered during those trips , I believe there is not another defence system in the world that can be compared with Germany's 200 - mile ...
... Canal . And this is what I have now to tell you about . ( 2 ) GERMANY'S COAST DEFENCES . From what I gathered during those trips , I believe there is not another defence system in the world that can be compared with Germany's 200 - mile ...
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... canals . Thus Emden , on the extreme west , is connected with Memel , in the east , almost in sight of Russia . The ... Canal , so that the smaller units of the Navy can pass from one harbour to the other without having to go outside ...
... canals . Thus Emden , on the extreme west , is connected with Memel , in the east , almost in sight of Russia . The ... Canal , so that the smaller units of the Navy can pass from one harbour to the other without having to go outside ...
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... CANAL BRUNSBÜTTEL BARUKRUG GRAUERART Stade Itzehoe GLÜCKSTADT Elmshorn GOODENSIELT HEILIGENSIEL MARIENSIELT SMS - JADE CANA SUPPORTY FORTRESS FORT BATTERY RAILWAY OBSERVATION TOWER DRY AT EBB 10 MILES [ To face p . 78 .
... CANAL BRUNSBÜTTEL BARUKRUG GRAUERART Stade Itzehoe GLÜCKSTADT Elmshorn GOODENSIELT HEILIGENSIEL MARIENSIELT SMS - JADE CANA SUPPORTY FORTRESS FORT BATTERY RAILWAY OBSERVATION TOWER DRY AT EBB 10 MILES [ To face p . 78 .
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Page 130 - eyes to England's faults, about which his Sonnets use harder words than they ever use about her enemy: ' Rapine, avarice, expense, This is idolatry; and these we adore; Plain living and high thinking are no more; The homely beauty of the good old cause Is gone; our peace, our fearful innocence, And pure religion breathing household lawn.
Page 124 - fiery heart' and 'tumultuous harmony' to prefer the stockdove's song, ' Slow to begin and never ending ; Of serious faith and inward glee; That was the song—the song for me !' yet the ' glee' remained, if now more inward than outward ; and so did the poet's faith in the heart of man
Page 128 - There ! that dusky spot Beneath thee, that is England; there she lies. Blessings be on you both! One hope, one lot, One life, one glory! I with many a fear For my dear Country, many heartfelt sighs, Among men who do not love her, linger here.
Page 131 - For dearly must we prize thee ; we who find In thee a bulwark of the cause of men; And I by my affection was beguiled: What wonder if a Poet now and then, Among the many movements of his mind, Felt for thee as a lover or a child
Page 131 - the cause of men; And I by my affection was beguiled: What wonder if a Poet now and then, Among the many movements of his mind, Felt for thee as a lover or a child 1
Page 402 - 1 grow old. ... I grow old . . . I shall wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled. Shall I part my hair behind ? Do I dare to eat a
Page 131 - art Verily, in the bottom of my heart, Of those unnlial fears I am ashamed. For dearly must we prize thee ; we who find In thee a bulwark of the cause of men; And I by my affection was beguiled: What wonder if a Poet now and then, Among the many movements of his mind, Felt for thee as a lover or a child
Page 402 - I have heard the mermaids singing, each to each. I do not think that they will sing to me.' Here, surely, is the reduction to absurdity of that
Page 392 - you as she sent you, long ago, South to desert, east to ocean, west to snow, West of these out to seas colder than the Hebrides 1 must go Where the fleet of stars is anchored, and the young Star-captains glow.' Such melody and such imagery as this are in the true
Page 476 - digestive medicament had but little pain, and their wounds without inflammation or swelling, having rested fairly well that night; the others, to whom the boiling oil was used, I found feverish, with great pain and swelling about the edges of their wounds. Then I resolved never more to burn thus cruelly poor men with gunshot wounds.